[Discuss] an "Enterprise" Linux for desktop

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On 11/27/2011 11:05 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> It's impossible to get everyone to agree that any new change is positive.
> So those decisions are left to the people who have localized control over
> whatever it is.  Those people are driven by something - usually monetary -
> and they're designing whatever they're designing because they think it's
> better that way.  If they paused until everyone was in agreement, nothing
> would get done, and they would be removed from their position of influence
> over the project.
...
> Perfection is the enemy of progress.  Plus it's subjective.

Agreed.  But the features I mentioned are perfectly compatible with "the
new way", other than being able to put apps on the desktop of your
choice rather than adding additional desktops as you go.

For instance, the ability to display the names of apps by the icons
(turned off by default) wouldn't have any negative effect, other than
more quickly pointing out how insufficient "trying to shove every app
onto one launcher and shrinking the icons to make it fit" is.