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[Luke Benstead <kazade@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On 9 Jul 2013 18:09, "Conscious User" <conscioususer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Em Ter, 2013-07-09 às 18:42 +0200, Christian Dywan escreveu:
> > A GNOME user will say exactly the same about Elementary. Ditching the
> > shell, forking the window manager, discarding all apps, adding
> Contractor…
>
> I am a GNOME user, and I can assure you that it's not the same thing.
>
> Elementary forks, adds, and removes, while ubuntu patches and modifies.
> More importantly, Ubuntu sometimes patches and modifies without changing
> APIs and namespaces, so app developers sometimes expect one thing and
> have another. That's the main issue.
>
> If an app developer uses Mutter documentation to access Gala
> and something goes wrong, that's his fault.
>
> If an app developer uses Shell documentation to access Pantheon
> and something goes wrong, that's his fault.
>
> If an app developer has non-documented rendering differences
> due to Ubuntu patches, despite doing exactly what the GTK
> documentation tells him to, that's *not* his fault.
>
>
>
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