> It is hard to port an application to a set of libraries that are > not installed. We can generate enough eye candy for the press with > pango and other technologies. Lets get the platform out there. > Everyone can being taking _full_ advantage of the new features > later. But I, like other people said before, feel that "wow, it's antialiased, and wow, if I was able to speak a langage that writes from the right to left I'd be able to have the text go that way" isn't actually all that interesting. That is why I like my second option: Separate the platform from the desktop release. Release the platform, maybe call it gnome-platform 2.0, then wait a while for people to start porting all their applications[1] to it, get some useful user visible changes[2] and then release gnome-desktop 2.0. I just feel annoyed/upset/depressed that we have all this rather cool technology, and when people ask what use it is, we can say, "ummmm, nothing yet, but it WILL be cool". I keep feeling like an apologetic, "yeah, this release isn't great or mind blowing, but the next one...wow, it'll be special" But, I guess it's too late for that. iain [1] I accept that things like Gnumeric won't be ported instantly and so the number of great new features in it will probably be around 0 for a while, but small programs, utilities and the like could have *something* to make them different. [2] I'm not talking about eye candy, ohh aatext stuff. I'm talking about "Oh, a CD player that doesn't suck ass" or "Oh, gnome-stones isn't slow" or "Oh, you can print from gdict now[3]" [3] I should add this to the list of things to be added. Shouldn't be too much really. -- "It isn't rebels who cause the troubles of the world, it's the troubles that cause the rebels." - Carl Oglesby
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