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If your theme engine is as simple as Raleigh, then the chances of crashing applications because of a bug in the theme are smaller. Sadly, most (if not all) theme engines were far, …

> A cynic might say that they decided to scrap everything and start again and not only this cynic would be wrong, but he would also be full of crap, because it's such a trivial thi…

no, it wasn't - mostly because of political bullcrap coming from the "I'm purer than thou" crowd. obviously, the biased perception that gnome was using C# exclusively was also due …

the usual ridiculous trope that "if only we had a single $PROJECT all the people working on the current competitors would work on $PROJECT instead and everything would be great" is…

I use a wiki for strawman feature proposals and for the roadmap; each entry in the roadmap gets a bug in Bugzilla, and all milestones/releases get a tracking bug depending on the b…

> I am somewhat of a misanthrope. you use that word. I don't think it means what you think it means - or that it has the implications that you think it has; I am a misanthrope, but…

> I don't get all this C++ hate from people that has never even used it. wrong. I use it every day, on a fairly large code base. obviously, for portability reasons, nobody working …

a three lines program generates 95 lines of error messages; let's throw a template into it, so that it goes up to 112 lines, but look: at the beginning you'll see the error we adde…

the data collected from the history is not associated with the user account, only analysed; and the plugin/extension respects private/incognito mode, according to the privacy polic…

the issue is not (only) having distasteful content; the real issue is censoring links to content that embarrasses redditors, like the Gawker outing of the reddit creep, in a shocki…

not every video frame is encoded in RGB. actually, very few transports use that. the in-memory layout of a YUV-encoded frame is different than the one of a RGB one. it needs conver…

translation: we don't want to do colorspace conversion on the GPU because it's hard. let's go shopping instead!

"because he wants to port xscreensaver code to iOS." fixed that for you.

"enthusiasts" are not just "computer enthusiasts"; I want to excite users and make them care about Gnome - and I want to get excited, interested users, to contribute back to the co…

as one of the two people mentioned by name in Benjamin's blog post, I'd like to point out that I didn't "leave GNOME" (to work on other stuff). I am still involved in the community…

considering that I'm working right now on bug 762303 - unprefixing transition and friends - I almost did a spit take when I read the HN headline. :-)