Unity For Fedora (As in OpenSUSE or Arch)

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 10:04:03PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Samba is a project written specifically to interoperate with Windows,
> > because the developers involved felt that interoperability was more
> > important than the flaws in the SMB spec (to the extent that any such
> > thing existed).
> 
> My point is that interoperability between the Free desktops is more 
> important than the flaws in any of the specs involved! Our applications are 
> all going to run on the same machines, so we should strife for an integrated 
> experience rather than gratuitous incompatibilities due to differences of 
> opinion on the letter of a spec.

And the people working on Gnome feel that adopting a bad specification 
would cost more than enhancing this interoperability would provide. You 
can't force them to feel otherwise, so your options are either to modify 
the spec in such a way that everyone's happy or to just get on with the 
rest of your life.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org