On 8 June 2011 02:58, Bryce Harrington <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 11:03:12AM +0100, Matthew East wrote: >> I'm taking this opportunity to post a link to this comment on the >> proposed switch to lightDM from Matthew Garrett, in case people >> reading here haven't seen it, it seems relevant to this discussion and >> I haven't seen it mentioned before. >> >> http://mjg59.livejournal.com/136274.html > > tl;dr version: "Every wart is earned in the process of fixing a bug; > those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it, etc." Fairly bog > standard rant against doing something new.
Actually, to be fair, I don't think that it is at that kind of level. It's not just a criticism of the concept of using something lightweight, the post looks specifically at differences between the competing software, features and design policies. -- Matthew East http://www.mdke.org gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
