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First of all, apologist is not a dirty word. Per the Meriam-Webster dictionary the definition is "one who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something". Secondly, extensions are not the answer, because extensions are inherently unstable. If you think the answer to supporting features is via extensions, then of _course_ GNOME doesn't have enough developers. Some featuers need to be in the core DE --- as 2-D workspaces was once a core feature. Ejecting features from the core feature set, and trying to implement them as extensions, is a receipe for P-A-I-N. It certainly isn't how KDE and XFCE handles 2-D workspaces; there it is implemented in C++ or C, and not in some Javascript extension language using unstable primitives that randomly change from GNOME version to GNOME version. My Goal is to use a Linux Desktop Environment which meets my needs. And part of my needs is certain well-defined feature set which includes 2-D workspaces, and that they **NOT** be implented as an extension. Because extensions break. All. The. Damn. Time. I've been around since the very early days of GNOME, and GNOME had 2-D workspace support for years and years, and it was not a big deal. It was ejecting features from the core, and implementing them in unstable Javascript which is what caused the problems. If GNOME simply said, F-U to certain classes of users, we don't think certain features deserve to exist, I'd probably respect them a bit more. I still wouldn't use GNOME, but at least they'd be honest. My complaint is trying to assert that extensions are an answer, and they're not, because it's really unfair to trick users into relying on something which is ultimately built on quicksand. Better to have a small feature set which you can support well, rather than a randomly fluctuating feature set which arbitrarily breaks across distro upgrades. |