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Quotes of the week
There’s absolutely no way that the Mozilla Foundation can personally host events to teach web making to the world. But I do think that if we do this right, we can build a movement that others build on, and make their own.
— Michelle Levesque
We can teach people to teach people to teach people to fish. And soon there will be no fish left in the sea. (But in this case, that means “everyone learns web making” so it’s not quite so ecological disastery. … I hope.)
I'm all for code cleanups, UI cleanups, and anything that can improve
our state of affairs. Forgive me for using a strong word, but
destroying working functionality without explaining exactly what made it
bad, and without trying to fix it first, is just vandalism.
— Federico Mena Quintero
A quick clarification - -building- LibreOffice tends to discover poor
thermal management in systems better than anything else I've seen ;-)
— Michael Meeks(Log in to post comments)
Quotes of the week Posted Jul 5, 2012 10:52 UTC (Thu) by naptastic (subscriber, #60139) [Link]
> I'm all for code cleanups, UI cleanups, and anything that can improve our state of affairs. Forgive me for using a strong word, but destroying working functionality without explaining exactly what made it bad, and without trying to fix it first, is just vandalism.
Where do I go to +1 this?
Quotes of the week Posted Jul 5, 2012 11:27 UTC (Thu) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]
You ditch GNOME and go to KDE... :-D
+1 Posted Jul 6, 2012 3:26 UTC (Fri) by david.a.wheeler (guest, #72896) [Link]
Looks like LWN is a good place to do it. :-).
Quotes of the week Posted Jul 6, 2012 10:48 UTC (Fri) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]
This other pearl is very telling:
> This is a very dangerous line to tread. A *LOT* of our interface is not as high-quality as someone with high standards would desire. But we can't remove big features just because they aren't up to someone's standards. We should improve them instead until they are palatable, or we should make them superfluous when there is a better way of doing what they do and with a good transition path.
The history of GNOME, in two paragraphs. At this point, maybe Federico should consider his relation to the project.
Quotes of the week Posted Jul 18, 2012 23:43 UTC (Wed) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
I just hope he means session restore. It's highly annoying that GNOME just seems to have given up on that - not just because I HATE that Shell doesn't restore my session but also because it's a central piece of tech for KDE's awesome Activities and GNOME apps simply don't work with that now.
The argument for ditching it was 'it never worked properly anyway'. That's a rather bullshit argument, I'd say - "we were never capable of doing it right so we give up" is not what I expect to hear from a decent engineer... Esp if the competition (KDE) is doing it just fine.
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