[ubuntu-art] gtk theme

[Kido Mariano]

>  Il giorno mer, 05/03/2008 alle 23.12 -0800, Troy James Sobotka ha
>  scritto:
>  > Andrea Cimitan wrote:
>  > > So we will implement (he is the right guy to do this) this feature the
>  > > day we get a sane way to do it, without the hackish way in eXperience.
>  >
>  > I see it pop up time and time again that Linux or Free Software isn't
>  > doing YYY or XXX because it is 'hackish'.  We end up wallowing in
>  > Windows95 tech on more than a few fronts because of it.  Animated icons,
>  > animated progress bars, etc. - all progressive ideas that have been
>  > quashed by the status quo because we don't have an 'official' way to do it.
>  >
>  > Ubuntu and many other Free Software branches seek to hit mainstream and
>  > hit it hard.  This means that we _must_ let go of some of the
>  > perfectionism and get the things that matter into the eyes of the people
>  > who care.
>  >
>  > Free Software should be a bastion of innovation, not a reclusive attic
>  > of stale mothballs.
>  >
>  > Patch the code.  Kludge it out when we have no other option.  Let the
>  > progression happen.
>  >
>  > TJS
>  >
>  OMG.

LOL at reaction. :D

(First post here. I'd like to say hi! :D) I don't know if I'm in any
position to say this, but if you do things in a hackish way, you do
advance, but at the expense of having more and more unmaintainable
code. Sure, we'll go forward, but it will take more and more work to
move any further. Put more hacks, and the code starts to become too
much of a mess to even touch. (I don't have a good example here,
though.)

In short, it isn't really perfectionism (well, a bit...), but it's
more a matter of maintainability.

^kd