On Sat, 2006-25-02 at 13:15 +0100, Carlo Capocasa wrote: > > I'm a programmer = I'm lazy = I don't want to write printing dialogs, or > > VFS support, especially since it's already provided by gnome. > > Heh, I'm only a novice programmer, and I'm already lazy :) > > I think widgets are a GOOD thing. I also think modularity is a good thing. > > KDE and Gnome both appear greedy to me. They both want me to use their > system and hence, tell me how to use my computer. Very little care is > taken to make sure individual parts can be used without installing the > whole whack. It's like I want to marry the girl I love but I can't > without also marrying her cousin, her sister and her aunt. This is the > Win/Mac philosophy, not the UNIX philosophy, and especially not the free > software philosophy.
This is much less true of GNOME than KDE, FWIW. -DR-