"gnome-like purge" -- like that cascade of attention-deficit teenagers
jwz quote. Not a very good thing to be known for.But I'm a bit hopeful from some recent discussion I've seen about Gnome 3.0. See, for example, Nat's email in response to some people discussing how to manage breaking the ABI:
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Another way to look at this which I haven't even seen considered is,
"What do we need to do to create a really exciting, useful, and usable
desktop environment that people love to use?"
Certain things come immediately to mind:
- build a baseline of useful applications that are useful,
slick, fun, and work well together
- make it possible and fun for other people to build additional
applications that work well with our desktop and with our other
applications
- perform usability testing on what we've already built,
identify the problems, and fix them
- create compelling new and original things like what the
Xgl/Luminocity/Cairo work might enable, like Beagle/Dashboard,
etc.
Breaking ABI, changing version numbers, "rethinking everything," etc,
don't float to the top for me.
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