[hamei]

I feel your pain.

Nobody asked me :-) but ... imnsho, a big part of the falloff in interest in personal computing can be raced to this "stuff". The people dong the coding became all wrapped up in playing with their genitalia to the point where they ignored the programs themselves.

It became a case of upgrading the toolkit, keeping "current" with a bunch of stuff that made absolutely no difference to the end product, new icons or new windowframe decorations or a whole new toolkit whoopee ! while the program itself still didn't work, no fixes to known bugs, no functional improvements, crash crash crash but LOOK ! Now you can rebuild everything for the latest version of gtk that's twice as slow and looks worse than what you started with three years ago ! Isn't that great ?!

I just quit entirely. To hell with this. Some of the programs I built for Irix fifteen years ago still don't work. But now they don't even tell you what version of the operating system is required.

How did such a good idea turn out so bad ?