the default desktop

> I think the lesson here is that it is high time for UI folks (and language folks like Python) to largely follow the incremental approach taken by the Linux kernel itself (after 2.4) going forward rather than try clean break and flag days approaches ever again. It burns out too many users who hold on to their experiences for a very long time.

YES. The Emacs approach! (Only... perhaps Emacs takes it too far, not making disruptive changes like calling point the cursor position because that's the way it always worked. :) )