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Clearly the best way to EOL a much-loved product. I wonder how much current Eudora code will flow into (and improve) Thunderbird…
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“unified / common interfaces”… I raised concerns about overselling Portland during the first DAM meeting, as it could harm long-term credibility with ISVs. Such unclear language has resulted in serious miscommunication, and was not rectified in the 1.0
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“This support may be a small step for GNOME and KDE, but it’s a giant leap for the Linux desktop.” I’ve emailed sjvn about inflating Portland’s importance in previous articles, but he stands by it.
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tigert documented this evidence of public nuisancery in a Cambridge Mac store, featuring Jenny, Matthew and I. Merry GNOME pranksters, one and all!
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messaged is problematic. Going back to SuSE’s decision to ship and support both GTK/GNOME and Qt/KDE, I’ve been skeptical of approaches that try to hedge their user interface bets. I do happen to believe that Project Portland is important, but like Jeff, Ian, and Murray Cumming I’m concerned that some of the claims being made about Portland are setting up unrealistic – and probably unmeetable – expectations. Portland, for example, wouldn’t seem to solve
Jeff Waugh: “I raised concerns about overselling Portland during the first [OSDL Desktop Architects] meeting, as it could harm long-term credibility with ISVs. Such unclear language has resulted in serious miscommunication, and was not rectified in the 1.0.
messaged is problematic. Going back to SuSE’s decision to ship and support both GTK/GNOME and Qt/KDE, I’ve been skeptical of approaches that try to hedge their user interface bets. I do happen to believe that Project Portland is important, but like Jeff, Ian, and Murray Cumming I’m concerned that some of the claims being made about Portland are setting up unrealistic – and probably unmeetable – expectations. Portland, for example, wouldn’t seem to solve
Jeff Waugh writes, “raised concerns about overselling Portland during the first DAM meeting, as it could harm long-term credibility with ISVs. Such unclear language has resulted in serious miscommunication…” That’s one way of putting it.
Jeff Waugh: “I raised concerns about overselling Portland during the first [OSDL Desktop Architects] meeting, as it could harm long-term credibility with ISVs. Such unclear language has resulted in serious miscommunication, and was not rectified in the 1.0.
links for 2006-10-12 October 13th, 2006 by jdub
Jeff Waugh writes, “raised concerns about overselling Portland during the first DAM meeting, as it could harm long-term credibility with ISVs. Such unclear language has resulted in serious miscommunication…” That’s one way of putting it.
October 12, 2006 10:18 PM