Mozilla作为一个开源开发团体已经在应用软件界有所成就,例如FireFox和Thunderbird等网络工具更是脍炙人口.而最近来自mozilla.dev.planning list(Mozilla新闻组的开发计划板块)出现了开发桌面环境的讨论,当然这个桌面环境不是操作系统而是类似于KDE和Gnome之类运行在类UNIX操作系统平台下的环境.

Mozilla产品的易用性已经深入人心,我们有理由相信Mozilla如果开发出桌面环境将有效拉近普通用户和UNIX/Linux的距离,此次更是计划基于XUL (XML User Interface Language)进行开发以保证良好的扩展和本地管理能力,不过到目前为止这都还是讨论而已.以下是原话:

"I'm only proposing that we make a desktop environment, the same thing that KDE and Gnome, are. The only reason I mentioned a "Mozilla OS" is because we'd probably also want to release distributions for one of more specific kernels as a whole OS, including with it Firefox, Thunderbird, and any other applications built with the Mozilla platform available then. Currently there are plenty of kernels to put a Mozilla desktop environment on."

支持的說

支持~~
KDE和gnome这么多年了还是渣一样一点起色都没有