Looking a Novell gift horse in the mouth [LWN.net]

Looking a Novell gift horse in the mouth

Posted Feb 10, 2006 15:40 UTC (Fri) by faramir (subscriber, #2327)
In reply to: Looking a Novell gift horse in the mouth by kleptog
Parent article: Looking a Novell gift horse in the mouth

> Interesting article. A bit odd though, especially the comment about how you
>don't want to post design because people complain with comments like:

>"you can't make the panel menu depend on beagle!!!"

>Huh? That's not a design issue, that's an implementation detail. A design is
>more like saying we take layer K out of the X server and put it into a
>library that depends on OpenGL. Rationale is Y.

Are we talking about UI design (visible) or software design (back end)?
If we are talking about software design, your example certainly
is relevant as it directly affects modularity of the system.

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