Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 11th Jun 2008 08:14 UTC
The KDE project saw the writing on the wall. They saw that they had reached a certain limit when it came to what could be done with the KDE 3.x series - they named it the "big friggin' wall", and decided that in order to get over that wall, incremental updates wouldn't do - they needed massive changes, a big jump, and they went for it. It's been a rough road, but it seems as if KDE 4.1 is showing signs of the vision becoming a reality. And it now seems as if several people within the GNOME community are seeing the writing on the wall too: GNOME 2.x has reached its goal - now what?
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2006-01-17
Maybe people who think Gnome needs a revolutionary change should think about what they want changed and do something about it. It's likely that the change would still be possible without requiring a 3.0 release.
Note that there will be no 3.0 until a API break is needed.
http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero
I like the idea of a hackers' sandbox where radical ideas can be tried. But the ideas in that blog kind of scare me. Gnome is finally used by many people and companies, and here are calls to totally change everything just because.