John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
I don't know who said this first, but meditate upon this:
One size fits all fits no one well.
I disagree. One size can fit someone perfectly.
That is, in fact, what you are arguing--that a plethora of "one size"
choices provides the best overall fit for the community.
I happen to disagree, however. A plethora of bad fit is still bad fit.
Being 6' 3" and shopping for a suit teaches you that.
Personally, I find all window toolkit/window managers I have tried under
Linux to be weak. That's a subjective opinion, but how are people
really voting?
Well, as a concrete example, using OpenOffice under X11 was sufficiently
annoying that folks completely created native bindings for OS X at the
same time that they rejected creating such bindings for *both*
GtkWordFoo and KDEExcelBar.
Now *that's* a negative vote that really counts. Especially considering
just how painful compiling OpenOffice is.
In addition, take a look at the number of OS X machines whenever open
source developers get together. Unless we're talking kernel hacking
(which requires x86 hardware; however, Apple now uses x86, this may
change), the number of OS X laptops probably exceeds the number of users
of any one window manager in the room.
Given that people have to *pay* to use OS X, that's a pretty resounding
vote.
Now that does not mean that KDE/Gtk are a bad fit for any *particular*
person. However, the evidence seems to indicate that there are better
options for the majority of people.
-a
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