> Rob wrote:
> > On Wednesday 21 February 2007 14:03, Josh Lawrence wrote:
> >> And if Gnome died today, wouldn't something
> >> come along to take its place (if indeed the need was there)?
> >
> > I'm not even sure what "dying" means in this case. Perl is
> > basically dead as far as new development goes [...]
>
> redefine death - there's perl code popping up everywhere! aparently you
> can formulate QM with it's regexps:
http://xkcd.com/c224.html ;-)
>
> Same goes for gnome - ok seriously IMHO they've influenced good Desktop
> development and even if the current gnome-desktop-software has several
> issues or drops in popularity(?!),.. their spirit will linger longer
> than most flashy icons.. - anyway right now I prefer the gnome-terminal
> with xfce.
>
> To each his/her own windowmanager - only question we could ask in our
> glass house is which Features of a window-manager would improve
> linux-audio popularity & usability: Ideas range from session management
> and easy window re-arrangement to extending drag-n-drop features or
> display-information abstraction: inter-app-exchange methods.. MIDI-WM
> :-) - there'll always be different kinds for a window environments, so
> the API should rather be at glib (or similar lebvel) rather than
> associating linux-audio with some DE or live-distro.
>
> I hope(d) that linux-audio and linux-desktop popularity are quite
> uncorrelated. Although an open source software can; an open-source
> community does not seem to be able to support [non-caring|paying]+
> End-Users in a satisfactory way - "uuh - do I need to type? I just want
> to click?