Seth: for every cool thing that someone does, there were 100 people sitting around saying “we should do something cool” 😉 Keep making it happen. People forget too quickly how huge some of the battles were that made GNOME what it is today. In my day, we didn’t have time-based releases or basic UI sanity […]
Speaking of copying Microsoft instead of innovating, should gnome-vfs really be a UNIX-like interface to bytestreams, or should it be more, say a general purpose data model with an evolutionary upgrade path from the hierarchical filesystem and features such as cross-machine synchronization. (This post was originally found at http://log.ometer.com/2003-10.html#29)