Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 9th Dec 2003 22:48 UTC
A few weeks ago we published an article titled "The Great Mac OS X 10.4 Wish List", detailing a few personal wishes for the next version of OSX. Later I learned that quite a few Apple engineers read the article and so it felt good that the time spent writing the article was not just a voice in the void. A reader emailed me a few days ago asking me to do the same for other OSes and DEs. So here is my personal wish-list for a future version of Gnome. Please tell us about your own Gnome wish list in the comment section provided.
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I think when people talk about bloat and KDE, they're talking about a general problem that plagues any free software desktop. Though KDE seems to be more prone to do so. It's called "reinventing the wheel". The KDE people frequently seem to feel it necessary to have a 'K' version of a game. Even though the only difference are the menu dialogs many times. Many games already had a gnome version, etc. But instead of trying to come up with a standard set of applications that could be maintained easier, they instead decide to maintain their own 'K' version all in the name of "it uses Qt, therefore it must be cool!".
Seriously. More and more people are wanting their favorite applications to integrate tightly with both desktops, but at the moment that's near impossible. What's a developer to do who has created a popular program only to discover that half his users are Gnome users and half his users KDE users? He himself is probably a Gnome user as well and as such probably doesn't want to have to maintain a KDE version, but at the same time he understands people's desire to have a 'K' version, but believes probably like I do that it's silly to maintain two seperate versions of the same thing that only differ in their GUI toolkit esentially.
What's a developer to do?