Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 7th Sep 2009 22:38 UTC, submitted by EvilWells

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, posted an article showing the evolution in size of the GNOME desktop environment in recent Debian releases. The picture he paints isn't particularly pretty: the default GNOME install has increased drastically in size over the years.
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Wrong, it was writen as an abstraction layer above the OS, designed to handle different OS mechanisms. It abstracts away the OS spesific part for the application developers.
No you don't, you only have to write Solid backends to talk to your OS spesific functions. Major changes to Solid is not needed, since this is exactly what it was designed to do. Think of it as Phonon for hardware. Besides Solid alrady have functionality for *BSD, Windows and OSX.
There you are right, the famed Gnome NIH syndrome will make that a certanty. More likely they will implement their own version in a couple of years.