> Distribution
> differences are something to be avoided, not encouraged.
It is not for gnome to decide. See the messages from Ross. Differences are inevitable. Let's embrace differences, let's minimise patches. Let's be friendly to downstream.
Anyway, since distros are patching in their capplets - gnome FAILED the main goal - to define the final experience. And that failure was unevitable. So closing apis is just a form of avoiding responsibility for the failure.
> I dislike that
> I have a Mandriva control center.
It is unevitable with the current approach umho.