On Tuesday 14 February 2012, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Monday, February 13, 2012 17:51:23 Shaun Reich wrote: > > hate to chime in as well, but i think replacing the Windows shell > > should definitely be something that's looked at. imho it makes a lot > > of sense. face it, the Windows shell sucks. > > how many windows users realistically change the shell, even though it's > already possible now and such shells exist? > > this is even smaller than the # of people who really dislike the windows 7 > shell THAT much. > > compare with: how much effort is required to make this REALLY work well?
Especially considering the man power we have under Windows. It's not much. > i'm not going to stand in people's way of working on this (because .. well > .. i haven't so far ;) but if you do the math it's pretty evident that the > work/reward ratio is microscopic. > > if we just say, "nah. not a priority. don't plan around that eventuality" > then it becomes far more evident that it is the applications that need to > be focussed on. > > and when we realize that the applications should be the _focus_, then we > arrive at the conclusions of the original post in this thread :) Yes :-) Actually this is also connected to the way Qt is evolving: more features get integrated into Qt / qt-project, so providing libraries with additional features becomes less important for KDE. Instead we as KDE can concentrate more on two things: * a desktop for UNIX * and applications portable between all major operating system ...and of course the community. Alex _______________________________________________ Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel
