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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: A radical idea
From:       Alistair Davidson <lord_inh () yahoo ! co ! uk>
Date:       2001-11-13 22:48:50
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Seth Nickell wrote:

> On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 09:54, Jim Conner wrote:
> 
> No, it would be a new operating system. KDE & GNOME will only be able to
> attain a certain level of usability without starting to make demands and
> changes to the underlying architecture. It is misguided to believe that
> you can form a usable system on top of any given architecture without
> either changing that architecture or radically hiding it. Once you've
> started doing the level of "hiding" that I think is going to eventually
> be necessary (or else we should accept that neither KDE nor GNOME will
> be competitive with commercial environments), you might as well ditch
> the underlying architecture altogether if its not willing to change.


While to an extent this makes sense, the cost of backwards-compatibility is 
potentially enormous.

-- 
Alistair Davidson
Read my comic, Bizmatch! http://www.altgeek.org/lord_inh/comic/index.html
"Disloyalty in a democracy is to stop asking questions."


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