Re: Re: about your concept

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 12:59:06PM +0200, JP Dinger wrote:
> > presumably because they can't
> > understand how anybody would use it otherwise.
> 
> If people insist on finding out the hard way their idea doesn't fly,
> let them.

Do you see anybody stopping them? No?

Anybody can write code, if they want to try out their idea. It just
probably won't be merged, and is likely to be ignored. It is
significant that none of these people have done so.

> > 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.
> 
> >From my reading of /The Thesis[tm]/, or even from various opinions on
> this list, I didn't get the idea that Y was to be a copy remake of what
> X did right 20 years ago. Sure we should use what was done right, but I
> don't think that's all we can do. Far from it, even.

Nobody, including Mark, who is significantly involved in Y has given
*any* particularly deep opinions on the design and direction of the
project on this list.

Mark's project report (which is *not* a thesis; anybody who calls it
that has no clue what they are talking about) is a fairly unique sort
of document and does not encapsulate the project in any
fashion. Primarily because it's not a thesis.

> > 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.
> 
> Well if it was explanation it'd be welcomed as such. Sentiment I've
> seen a lot of, but explanation or even just elaborated opinion lacked.
> 
> Points to work on.

Yes, you could certainly use work on comprehending this. Y is doing
just fine.

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