On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 03:36:09AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 10:09:02 +0200
> exhaust@??? wrote:
>
> > in the same way that there's not a perfect graphical desktop for all
> > the people,
>
> Quoted for truth!
>
> You can't *download* or *install* the perfect GUI desktop, you must
> construct the GUI desktop that's best for you. And that requires
> interchangeable parts.
>
> I sense a theme here.
>


The theme is quite easy to spot, and has been around for the best part
of the last 50 years: small, reusable, interchangeable components,
each providing a single, atomic, simple mechanism, avoiding to mess up
with policies (which are for the perusal of humans, not
machines...). This is what KISS is all about.

We have always needed and will always need more software. But never
"more standard policies" or "unique and perfect solutions" for each
problem. Those are quests for fools.


HND

KatolaZ

-- 
[ ~.,_  Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - GLUGCT -- Freaknet Medialab  ]  
[     "+.  katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it  ]
[       @)   http://kalos.mine.nu ---  Devuan GNU + Linux User  ]
[     @@)  http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia --  GPG: 0B5F062F  ] 
[ (@@@)  Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ  ]