"XFCE looks like where I’m landing"

[Richard Kenyon]

<sarcasm> Yes, I'm now convinced it's time for Xfce to become
"mainstream": a bloated useless piece of crap like Gnome and KDE.

Because you know it doesn't matter that you can't get your work done
anymore, as long as you've got a tabbed file manager, and some GPU
accelerated window effects - who cares, right?

Hell, why don't we just go all the way and turn the desktop environment
into some kind of game? Me, I vote pinball: my files can be these
objects I have to hit with the ball to open them. Though, I only want a
pinball interface if it has tabs, I don't really know why it has to have
tabs, it just does... </sarcasm>

On a serious note I feel like I've been running fugitive from desktop
environment designers' poor decisions for several years now. The common
story: KDE was fine until version 4, Gnome until version 3 and now I
worry whether Xfce will fall into the same trap.

I feel most of us really just want to /simply/ get our work done. It's
only these morons with no life who get excited by these shiny new
gadgets while the rest of us scream "please god no, just keep it simple,
improve what's there".

With respect to Xfce falling into the, well, I'll call it the
"bloat-trap", c'est la vie if it does I suppose, I hope it doesn't
though.

Love,

Richard

On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 12:47 -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> We seem to be hearing that more and more lately.  Here's yet another 
> example of this that I found today via hacker news.  And from Eric 
> Raymond, no less!
> 
> http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=3822
> 
> DR
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