Quotes of the week

A lot of the code which is in Gnome now probably ought to be moved outside of Gnome. For example, I use Xfce. As a result, I can't use NetworkManager. (Yes, there are a hacks to make this possible, but not good ones.) But what does networking have to do with drawing pretty windows on the screen? Nothing.

It's not really about being heavyweight or lightweight, but just about structuring the code properly. It's also about structuring the social responsibilities properly. The same people who are good at designing user interfaces may not be so good at figuring out color profiles or managing ACPI events. Why should these things be combined?