On 08/04/2010 at 2:51 PM, Sebastian Kügler<sebas@kde.org> wrote: We have to ask ourselves here if these "desktop wars" you talk of is something that should keep defining what openSUSE is and how it works now and in the future, or if this whole discussion is about given direction to openSUSE and
The flame wars have been there for ever, will stay for ever and will remain useless. dot. They are not bound or limited to openSUSE. [... stripped ...]
Besides that, when seeing how much energy is poured into delivering different UIs on the same system, it simply makes me cry. And it makes me wonder how much longer this is sustainable. It might come as a surprise, but it's completely braindead to support two (or more) full UI stacks, with different
applications, desktop interfaces and all that. It's in my not so humble opinion one of the major weak points of most Linux-based Operating Systems out there.
Now you assume that you can shift resources around, which is perfectly valid point in a company organization. In a volunteers world this is not going to work. If I have to choose between working on project A for distribution X as my only 'work space', then I might as well just define that distribution X is not what I want to invest my time into. so instead of shifting resources and focusing them, you alienate a part of the community, have them leave or get inactive for not fully backing the new 'strategy' up. You *might* possibly win new resources, once your 'one-desktopto-rule-them-all' is polished enough. But reaching this with less resources will certainly not be so easy. And if the new contributors would join in the state the project is now: why would they not do it just because some other group takes care of a second UI stack? I fail to see that this is indeed beneficial for the project. Cheers, Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org