On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 03:33:23PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 21:26 +0100, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:29:25PM +0100, Lukáš Tinkl wrote:
> > Dne 10.2.2014 12:09, Richard Hughes napsal(a):
> > >On 10 February 2014 10:02, Colin Walters <walters(a)verbum.org> wrote:
> > >>I find the idea that the long and historic relationship between GNOME
and
> > >>Fedora could turn around so quickly like that to be very strange
> > >
> > >The fact we're even considering asking the question "which DE do
we
> > >want to use for workstation" is just crazy. I think we're kidding
> > >ourselves if we want to try and answer that question honestly when the
> > >biggest backer of the project by several orders of magnitude has
> > >several hundred engineers working full time on GNOME and lower parts
> >
> > I think you've made a typo here (hundreds???)
>
> This is not a typo. If you consider not just GNOME but the lower
> parts of the stack on which GNOME relies (as Colin wrote), it is
> actually hundreds. Of course, some of those lower parts of the stack
> are likely shared by many DEs, in varying amounts, but it's still
> accurate.
It's clearly *not* accurate, though, to use the 'desktop plus underlying
stack' number for GNOME, but only the 'desktop' number for the other
desktops. That's obviously an unviable comparison.
It's either say, what, about a dozen(?) vs. two or three if you just
consider those working actually on the desktop, or "a dozen" plus
"hundreds" vs. "two or three" plus "hundreds". You
can't get away with
comparing "a dozen" plus "hundreds" against "two or three",
as Richard's
mail did:
"the biggest backer of the project by several orders of magnitude has
several hundred engineers working full time on GNOME and lower parts
of the stack that GNOME uses. If I remember correctly, we have about
two employees on all of KDE, and one on XFCE. None on LXDE. None on
MATE."
Right, I think that comparison may not be totally fair. On top of
those technologies, having dozens of people who work on GNOME is a
compelling enough argument IMHO. I should have spoken less to the
semantics, thanks.
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