On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 9:07 PM, John Marino <dragonfly...@marino.st> wrote: > On 7/20/2012 20:53, Carsten Mattner wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Stéphane Russell >> >> Complaining is important, but contributing platform support patches >> (if you have the skills) would possibly be a better choice, wouldn't it? >> > > Besides that statement also applying to yourself, the answer is no. The BSD > community simply will not accept the substandard replacements of BSD > functionality that Linux is adding to gnome.
I don't use any of the DEs. So, I don't really have an itch, sorry. > In other words, the functionality is already on BSD, Linux people are > reinventing the wheel, and coming up with a worse product. The BSD folks I'm new to BSDs again after a hiatus of approximately 12 years. Therefore excuse my knowledge gap. What functionality are you referring to? Is it something that also already exists in the Linux world but is reinvented? > will just stick with what they have as it's better. That's one of the > issues and no amount of patch skills is going to fix that. It's a > philosophical difference. > > "Lennart Poettering: BSD isn't relevant anymore" > http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/11/07/16/0020243/Lennart-Poettering-BSD-Isnt-Relevant-Anymore > Slashdot sensationalism, but basically gnome doesn't care if it's > BSD-friendly or not and it's diverging to the point of no compatibility. While that's true, from what I read they do welcome patches to support the new "stack" on other platforms. It's true though that their focus has changed with more work going into adding layers of plumbing.