General comment

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 11 May 2015 19:45:18 -0500, Marshall Neill wrote:
>If you don't like a DE, don't use it.  

Hi Marshall,

you're completely missing the point.

What if we like a DE and this DE breaks things within upgrades of a
major release? Xfce4 did exactly this. If things would get broken from
one major release to another, that might be tolerable, but breaking
things within a major release has less to do with "hard work" in the
sense of everything was done perfect.

JFTR I switched to openbox, IOW I don't use any DE anymore, just a
WM, but I keep using some Xfce4 apps.

However, I don't have seen that much critic as you might have seen.
It's unfair to claim that the critic of people is "TOTALLY uncalled
for".

I don't want to open a flame war, so I won't write more about this
topic. However, it's common practise to keep backwards compatibility and
not to break things within major releases. Xfce4 didn't follow this
most important rule for software development. Arch the distro I'm using
follows upstream so I experienced bad things, such as breaking the
theme in a serious way. JFTR critic aka bug reports is how FLOSS
development works. The everything is fine approach, even when there are
issues is good for nothing.

Regards,
Ralf