Re: Shipping Vera with 2.4

[Sander Vesik <sander_traveling yahoo co uk>]

 --- Michael Meeks <michael ximian com> wrote: > 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 ?
> 

gnome 2.2 is a quite new piece of software that not all that many ship yet -
it is extremely unsuprising nobody has bothered to offer support for new features
found in it yet.

> 	Methinks not,
> 
> 		Michael.
> 
> -- 
>  mmeeks gnu org  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
> 


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