Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:24:34 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD Message-ID: <CADLo838EPNAAhmN6nui_6Xp_N_2nqw33GP8kv_FtVUziPrAt1w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1209181004510.44656@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <CAGsORuBqiodwt_EmVqB%2BfO=tgOVeZOERopSE2y=mLa8Jp6ZOjQ@mail.gmail.com> <63507.1347905101@critter.freebsd.dk> <CAGsORuAzXzb1XURUbOhMEHAvf581swpFqUxSUrQXLPamii4Mzw@mail.gmail.com> <CAGH67wTzeUmASd_UCKwQ7BUAKnz6_qjUdDAVe_8XDFf3aaOcqQ@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1209181004510.44656@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Can you perhaps read the whole thread and organise your thoughts into just one email? Chris On 18 Sep 2012 09:09, "Wojciech Puchar" <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > To be succinct: this is not OSX/Windows. True Unix and Unix clones can >> be decoupled from a desktop environment enough that forcing everyone >> to have one choice for desktop user experience doesn't make sense, and >> the fact that there isn't a common GUI development toolkit (GTK, QT, >> etc) encourages fragmentation of effort further (I think it's called >> the Bazaar model of development :P). >> > > That's all true. But do anyone understand why there is still so much > pressure for every open source OS and specifically *BSD on "default desktop > environment" or similar ideas? > > Such a pressure exist for 20 years at least, and - between other results - > started demise of linux as trusty high performance system. > > Why people still not learned from faults and keep harming good open source > projects that way? > ______________________________**_________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/**mailman/listinfo/freebsd-**hackers<http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers>; > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@** > freebsd.org <freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org>" > >
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