Re: communication

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 01:24:29AM +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote: 
> I've seen praise for Keith from the KDE and Gnome teams for the work
> he's done to enhance the desktop, yet these projects bring with them
> the belief that XFree86 is not listening to them. It strikes me as though
> Keith is the one injecting these projects with that belief.

As a single desktop developer, I don't personally feel that XFree86
doesn't listen - there are tons of features in 4.3 that we wanted to
see, and they were done well. No complaints on that. However, as you
say:
 
> It's bizarre. In this situation of Keith being THE person representing
> this specific communication channel - and he's not managed it at all well.

Which seems to say that Keith was the only one interested in the
desktop. And indeed, many of the desktop-related features (fontconfig,
Xft, cursors, randr, etc.) are coming from Keith.

So speaking for myself only, I am worried about the *future*, not
necessarily the past. Who will be the new person representing this
communication channel, if not Keith? Are other XFree86 developers
interested?

Havoc