> Many of the things that differentiates DE's could probably be offered as configuration within one DE If you want to get flamed to death, mention the word "co

> Many of the things that differentiates DE's could probably be offered as configuration within one DE If you want to get flamed to death, mention the word "configuration" on a Gnome mailing list. There are people who think that things could just be configuration options, and then there are people who insist that the default configuration should be right, and that too much configuration is detrimental to the user experience (because it's hard/complex/time-consuming) and to development time (if you have two sets of two configuration options, that means you have four configuration to tests, and so on). It's not like these folks don't have a point, either.