Re: GNOME 2.0 Schedule

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu> writes:
> > People are itching to massively rework nearly everything in that list
> > to take advantage of the new platform and just generally be more sane;
> > I've been hacking on a new session manager myself, for example. But
> > those efforts are going to have to be post-2.0, I don't see how we can
> > get them done in the 2.0 timeframe. I mean, my session manager "works"
> > already, but going from "works" to "usable" takes a lot of effort.
> 
> of course, in some cases (gwmh comes to mind) it may be easier to just
> write the thing from scratch rather than port a nasty
> uses-lots-of-private-headers piece of code
> 

Yes, for sure. We just need to use our heads and be honest about it. 
i.e. we can't start imagining "oh I can rewrite these 30 kLOC by next
month" ;-)

Havoc