Re: Three Point Zero - Idea Mockups

[Seth Nickell <seth gnome org>]

If energy toward improving the desktop that went into 1.2 and 1.4 had 
carried into 2.0 instead of worrying about the platform so much we'd be 
even farther along. Frequent releases have probably had far greater 
impact on improving the desktop than the code churn that happened in 
2.0. Much of the code churn effectively got back out anyway.

If anything, it was the inability to do user features during 2.0 (what 
with all the platform churn) that resulted in a blossom of stuff after 
it was done. Pent up coding agression ;-) People work a lot better 
without underlying uncertainty.

I imagine there will be a big bunch of user improvements coming as soon 
as this platform (c/mono/python/whatver) uncertainty we are mired in now 
is over.... No matter which way it gets resolved. Platform uncertainty 
has a tendency of smothering direct pragmatic work, but with any luck it 
flares up again after the wet cloth is removed.

-seth

On Thu, 26 May 2005 6:18pm, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 22:55 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> >  Of course, trying to rewrite MacOS nearly killed the company several 
> > times
> >  ... and it was only necessary because MacOS 9 was an unworkable POS. 
> > Not
> >  something you can say about GNOME (or Windows).
>
> ... it is probably something you could say about GNOME 1, however. (No
> offence to anyone who worked on it, back in the day, but we win now.)
> --
> Andrew
>
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-Seth