Re: Shipping Vera with 2.4



Hi Havoc,

On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 18:33, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Take "recent documents" feature of GNOME 2.2 - it completely sucks
> because of the big-three end user apps Mozilla, OpenOffice, and
> Evolution, exactly zero of them use the "recent documents" feature.
> There's a file-format-based spec for recent files now, and I guess
> people are adding OpenOffice support, but it would have been much
> easier with a D-BUS style system.

	I believe you confuse adoption with simplicity. Persuading umpteen
projects to link to yet another heap of IPC is easier than parsing /
writing a simple XML file ?

	Methinks not,

		Michael.

-- 
 mmeeks gnu org  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot




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