On 02/03/2014 03:23 PM, Christian Schaller wrote:
I am generally negative to any such solutions as they tend to suck
resources away from
advancing something over to trying to keep multiple options sorta working together.
Any solution one choose at any given point in time will have holes or missing
functionality.
I don't think the best solution is ever to start filling those gaps with complete
alternate solutions,
as they will just be bringing in their own set of holes and bugs and in the end you are
not
moving forward anymore, you are just jumping around trying to avoid regressing and trying
to
plug security issues.
Which would not be a problem if the workstation group defines an solid
criteria that is required to be meet before becoming a workstation product.
You must realize by Alex statements ( as well as the fact the several
alternatives of desktop environments exist in the first place ) that end
user will chose what *he* thinks what works best for him and his
workflow not what *we* think is best for him or what *we* think is
workflow is which in turns shows in the end of the day it's better for
us to provide a larger inventory of products since it will increase the
odds that the end user will find something *he* likes and *can use* for
*himself* with us.
JBG