Re: [EWMH] _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_AUXILIARY

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw netspace net au>]

Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
> On 2007-10-19, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas mailhot laposte net> wrote:
> > Good design is not wasting time supporting potentials. 
>
> Since when has rigid monolithic and non-modular design has
> been considered good? Oh, wait! Ever since Linus wrote his
> shoddy kernel.

I found the biggest flaw in most FOSS is: developers think satisfying
90% is good enough.

However, after only 21 of these points have been encountered, 90% of
users will be dis-satisfied by *something*.

It's why desktop linux will never feel right for *anyone* but a few
developers and very unsophisticated users.

I didn't move to linux for this, so i neither use kde or gnome.

Good design has *scalability* so that even if only 90% of users
are satisfied, the capability is already there to satisfy 100% of
users.

Only with that attitude can you make a larger more complex system
and still hope to satisfy 100% of users.

To achieve this sort of scalability, a lot more parser and compiler
techniques should be employed, but i find any decent know-how in this
area the most lacking in FOSS.