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GNOME Shell to support a "classic" modeGNOME Shell to support a "classic" modePosted Nov 23, 2012 9:51 UTC (Fri) by ebassi (subscriber, #54855)In reply to: GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode by nix Parent article: GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode
Again, I don't really know how Emacs has avoided implosion despite using the same 'big ball of mud, everything is available' approach as FF extensions do. because you're obviously ignoring the fact that the emacs users are putting up with a big ball of elisp with obscure commands that require three keyboards to actually be used successfully, which means that they are capable of getting out of the mess by themselves, and they'll probably enjoy doing so - whereas people installing Firefox and GNOME extensions are much more likely not to be software developers or humungous geeks.
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GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode Posted Nov 23, 2012 19:37 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
The thing is -- generally there isn't a mess. Not even if you load a dozen weird things that have probably never been loaded simultaneously before in the history of the universe. That's what's odd...
GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode Posted Nov 30, 2012 20:20 UTC (Fri) by njs (guest, #40338) [Link]
And perhaps Gnome 23 will have the same property... ;-)
(Also emacs' UI is pretty flat and decoupled to start with, since it consists mostly of keybindings. It's much easier to merge 10 extensions' keybindings than it is to merge 10 extensions' arbitrary fiddlings with status bars, menus, etc., and those things change from release to release too.)
GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode Posted Nov 23, 2012 19:39 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
btw, it is clear from your sarcastic response that you too are not interested in figuring out how it is that some software can be apparently tightly coupled and yet not break all the time, despite working on software with the former property yourself. Curious. Apparently poking inaccurate fun at Emacs is more interesting than thinking about it.
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