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GNOME Sees Progress On Variable Refresh Rate Setting, Adding Battery Charge Control
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I find GNOME's "must be perfect" approach to accepting new code counterintuitive.
One of the largest benefits of having a clean architecture is increased velocity and extensibility. What's the point in nitpicking over perfection when it takes literally years to merge a feature, arguably one considered basic and essential by today's standards?
KDE is on the other side of this pendulum, integrating everything and resulting in a disjointed, buggy disaster.
Where's the middle way? It used to be XFCE. What is it now?
Quality control is important for a project that is going to be supported for long time, and used by many. Slow but steady is a right approach for open source project, IMO.