On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Sergey Udaltsov <sergey.udalt...@gmail.com> wrote: >> This modularity prevents to create a solid user experience in various ways >> because everything needs to be compatible with random components that cannot >> even be tested properly. > I cannot believe I am reading this on GNOME central mail list! Is this the > same GNOME that helped to improve WM standards (to NETWM and beyond) so that > people could use different WMs? Is it the same GNOME that helped to > establish freedesktop.org with all those cross-DE standards? Are you > implicitly saying that GNOME does not believe in cross-DE standards anymore? > GNOME already effectively dropped cross-DE systray, right? Now, WM mobility > is gone. What's next, dare I ask?
These standards are there to make sure GNOME *apps* are first-class citizens in other DEs (& vice versa). It has little to do with being able to play mix-and-match with core desktop components. -- Patryk Zawadzki _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list