Re: Re: about your concept

On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 02:35:29PM -0500, James Harr wrote:
> 
> > > > Don't get me wrong, I do appreciate your effort and
> > > > ideas, but be wary that while the foundations are utterly cool, there
> > > > does unfortunately not seem to be much of an environment to nurture and
> > > > grow the ideas in.
> > >
> > > Haha, you noticed that too :)
> >
> > Well, it was hard to miss. People publicly left because of it. I've
> > thought of (publicly) unsubscribing because of it too. Then again,
> > I think the project still has a future and I might even be of some
> > help improving the environment now and then.
> 
> I think everyone is afraid of letting the project have a mistake. So they need 
> to get their opinion in and hope someone else implements it. When in reality 
> the people implementing it probably know what's going on more than the people 
> on this board discussing it.

By and large, as far as this context is concerned, it's just people
who want to use Y to promote their idea, presumably because they can't
understand how anybody would use it otherwise. Out of courtesy they
get an explanation of why their idea sucks, but in practical terms it
won't be merged into Y because it's not a useful building block.

X has the right approach, as always. The current division between core
and window manager or application functionality is in exactly the
right place. The implementation can just be done better.

Almost every one of these daft ideas that people keep shooting off
about, belongs externally. So they tend to get ignored, modulo an
explanation of why they're bad ideas.

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