> Maybe because they're bloated, take huge gobs of memory, and are > designed only to emulate the mistakes and misdesign of a certain OS > from Redmond? I too agree that Linux window managers and session managers should not aspire to emulate Microsoft, I'd rather see some newer and better ideas implemented instead. > > Applications should be writen to be small and efficient. Gnome > applications force you to install and put up with dozens of libraries > that don't actually do anything useful (ex. Glib!!). Now I agree that there's lots of bloat in Gnome, but I have to disagree with you about Glib. Glib provides many handy routines (such as linked list management, and a threads API) for C programmers. Having Glib provide these routines is a much better choice than having each programmer write his or her own procedures to accomplish the same task. It reduces duplicate code and provides what is probably a much more efficient set of routines than what most people would write (not to mention a consistent API). It's bad enough that C has as many problems as it does, Glib is at least an attempt to make things more sane. -- ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; Matthew Danish email: mdanish@andrew.cmu.edu ;; ;; GPG public key available from: 'finger mrd@db.debian.org' ;; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
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