Re: Requiring systemd for the gnome-settings-daemon power plugin

[Brian Cameron <brian cameron oracle com>]

David:

On 10/22/12 01:01 PM, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > > But please don't expect others to port GNOME to run on your OS.
> >
> > I was never suggesting that any others do any sort of port for anyone.
> > I was only highlighting that the lack of documentation makes things
> > slow.  I am sure that we can improve the situation with some effort.
> >
> > Many mature products provide docuemntation to help developers make a
> > transition when there is a new major release.  I think GNOME is weak in
> > this area.  The fact that GNOME's developer documentation and GUI
> > building tools are weak is not a new topic.  Last year I remember
> > people talking about how to catch up with KDE in this regards, for
> > example.  Unfortunately, I do not think we have yet even accomplished
> > this more modest target.
>
> Nah, I really don't think GNOME should be that complicated - we're a
> desktop, we're a user experience - we should be more fluid, more agile
> than your grandfather's SDK porting kits with committees (or, worse,
> mailing lists) having to approve this or that thing. I mean, it's fine
> to have this for GLib and GTK+ (and we do [1]) but I wouldn't want to
> see us spend that amount of time on GNOME proper - I'd much much
> rather see us spend time on improving GNOME or adding cool features.

Right.  So, you probably are not surprised that things are moving along
slowly either.  :)

Brian