Switching to browsing mode is something old-time gnome users like myself do. Because we like what we're used to, not because Spatial is a piece of shit. I gather the "most people" you're talking about are such users, not newcomers.
Breaking old habits is difficult (which is why I use a terminal to do stuff that now has nice gui tools for them) On 7/21/05, Carl Worth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 18:10:04 -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote: > > * Cairo itself has a list of requirements for 1.0 in > > cairo/ROADMAP and it looks far from finished. > > > > Section "A9" will break the API, work remains on "A10", "A12" > > and possibly "A13". This is in addition to various other > > items still on the queue before they release 1.0. > > I just updated the ROADMAP[1] to reflect our current plans, which is > that all API _changes_ are scheduled for an as-soon-as-possible 0.6, > leaving just a couple of API additions on the 1.0 roadmap. > > Of the 4 API changes mentioned there, 3 of them have patches on the > cairo mailing list that have already been reviewed and appear to have > consensus, (in fact Keith just committed one). > > And the last API change should just change a handful of functions from > returning cairo_status_t to have a return type of void[2]. I'll work > on that now. > > > * We do not have a commitment not to break the API after the > > GNOME 2.12 release in six weeks. > > I do commit to that. > > We'll have cairo 0.6 out within days not weeks. And the API/ABI > stable 1.0 out within weeks not months, (as soon as we can, and > before GNOME 2.12). > > So those are my plans for cairo. Please make your own plans and > decisions accordingly. > > -Carl > > [1] http://cvs.cairographics.org/*checkout*/cairo/ROADMAP > > [2] This shouldn't break any programs since nobody checks error return > values anyway, right? ;-) ;-) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > > > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
