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The craziness started more than 10 years ago when Havoc Pennington declared himself as the "usability expert" by writing this article:

http://www106.pair.com/rhp/free-software-ui.html

Excerpt:

> On hearing that preferences have a cost, some people get upset that we're going to remove every preference, or that their favorite one is gone, or whatever.

Sometimes I think the problem with Gnome is that the cost for them to do anything is just too high, due to bad architecture. Thus they always opt to do less. This is in contrast with KDE's approach, where they strive to improve the architecture, so that it is easier to do more.




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