FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Windows Vista Performance Kludges (that Haiku does

["Jorge G. Mare (a.k.a. Koki)" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Ryan Leavengood wrote:
> On 12/13/06, Simon Taylor <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I do feel Haiku needs some more formal way of preventing bloat. At the 
> > moment it is
> > safeguarded by the people who have SVN access having the "right idea". 
> > In future
> > though, Haiku is likely to be swamped with contributions from people 
> > from Linux
> > backgrounds adding the particular features they feel they couldn't 
> > live without, and I think
> > Haiku needs a way of dealing with that. Honestly I think we will have 
> > a fight on our hands
> > to prevent the Haiku user experience tending towards that of Linux - 
> > the only reason I'm
> > still following Haiku is I believe it's one we can win.
> I think this is an extremely important point and more or less
> summarizes well why I started this email thread. Haiku can achieve
> this ideal, but it will require vigilance.
>
> For example, today I committed some code that will result in two new
> default Tracker add-ons (making a total of four so far.) I was
> somewhat hesitant to add these, but their simplicity and need (in my
> mind) caused me to go ahead and add them. Of course if others decided
> the system would be better off without them I wouldn't fight too much
> (we have BeBits after all), but I think here we are OK. Still it can
> be a slippery slope and before we know it we have 10 default Tracker
> add-ons (to continue the example at hand.)
It is not so much the number of features that make for complexity, but 
more the way the system exposes those features to the user. You can have 
the features needed by a wide range of users and do so in a way that is 
not complex or difficult to use. That's what Haiku should strive for, IMHO.
Cheers,

Koki