On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 4:17 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 16 December 2014 at 23:40, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> feels like new faster and larger hardware is for 90% used that developers >> don't need to consider ressource constraints because i don#t see that much >> more functionality or in fact over the last 10 years GNOME vene removed more >> visible functions then it added > > I suspect I'm being trolled here, but if you've seen no progress in > GNOME in the last 10 years then I think you need to look harder. We > can't design a modern OS for hardware that's ten years old. > > Richard I consider Gnome development to have been a profound expansion of the precise problems with open source interfaces described in Eric Raymond's "Luxury of Ignorance" essay. It violates *every single one* of his suggested design guidelines, and the guidelines which I sent him and he added as a postscript. So I can honestly say that it's not progressed overall, though new features have been added. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
