Re: MIME types, again ("Nautilus" ain't the answer)

On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 20:25 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> With cause and provocation.  May I advise the always illuminating Jeff
> Waugh In His Own Words:  An agony in seven fits?
> 
>     http://zgp.org/pipermail/linux-elitists/2004-January/008588.html
> 
> That post, and the thread to which it's posted, contain several and
> repeated dismissals and insults from _core_ GNOME devs.  Waugh was (is?)
> GNOME release manager, a fact I still find hard to believe.

Totally awesome. That made my day :).

As a humble side note: Jeff Waugh contributes a hell of a lot to GNOME.
Flaming him *really* won't get you anywhere, and it does nothing but
hurt the entire project.

> 1.  ...which itself raises a few interesting points.  Somewhere in the
>     Waugh fit linux-elitists thread, IIRC, the old "but the gconf
>     registry *isn't* the same as the legacy MS Windows registry 'coz
>     it's not a fragile binary structure that shits its pants when you
>     look at it crossly" argument was trotted out.  While that is *a*
>     fault of Microsoft's implementation, it's hardly the only:
> 
>       - Undocumented settings.
>       - Indecipherable/obfuscated keys.
>       - Indecipherable/obfuscated values.
>       - Limited interface.

GConf does not share any of these properties with Microsoft's registry.
Each undocumented key represents a bug in its respective application's
schema, not in GConf itself. If Galeon didn't have a manual, would you
blame Yelp?

Research before you flame!

-- 
Adam Hooper <[email protected]>

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