Peter Robinson (pbrobinson(a)gmail.com) said:
I mostly agree but the difference in this case there is essentially
a
fork as the newer interface won't work on all devices that the old one
previously did so you have circumstances where it just won't work or
will crash horribly even on devices that are suppose to work (and to
see that go and check the abrt bugs against mutter that say "just
crashed when I tried gnome-shell" and the, in some cases, 100s of
dupes). I see them every day when they hit my inbox as I originally
packaged mutter and most of the gnome shell components for moblin (and
now meego) so I'm well aware of the problems there are. Where as KDE 3
- 4 didn't have hardware incompatibilities and gnome has said they'll
maintain both of the interfaces.
That doesn't mean the interfaces are separate products, or
need to be seperable components. Certainly not on upgrade.
Bill