Collapsing settings into chewable bits

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Vincent Trouilliez">

> Thanks for the link Jeff. I often feel like Gnome is progressing so
> slowly, that I sometimes become a bit depressed about it, as I would like
> it to be perfect today, not in 10 years. But in this web page, it is clear
> that the boys at Gnome don't lack ideas and are very critical with their
> own work/baby and have positive/constructive attitude, in the interest of
> the end user. so I guess the real problem is not making suggestions, but
> rather, forking out cash so that all those devs full of ideas can be paid
> to work full time on their ideas.

Actually, it's often the cash that slows things down. Once money is involved
you have to start thinking about sustainability, profits, customers, all the
people you need to service them, keeping everything stable, and so on.

So in this instance, it's not really about writing code. It's about finding
a design to solve the problem. Once we have that, the coders have something
solid work with. :-) This one has been slow in coming because it's a *hard*
one, and will take quite a bit of time and work to get right. :-)

- Jeff

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