Snooping was just the mean, not the end. Nobody is asking to be able to do that, people ask to get the same result. When you add memory protection to a system

Snooping was just the mean, not the end. Nobody is asking to be able to do that, people ask to get the same result. When you add memory protection to a system you don't just say "you cannot have process communicate", you give them the tool to do it in a safe way. > You want to do it right, not quickly. You want to do it right in reasonable time, otherwise by the time it is done it is obsolete. Given the time it took to add basic functionality, I would say that the design is not a good one. In particular I suspect that the unstated premise was that everybody would be using Gnome by now, so that offloading to Gnome all of that functionality was a smart idea. Unfortunately people stubbornly continue to use the software that they like, so now we are in this situation. > The final solution will be there for decades There is no final solution, in 40 years the needs will be quite different that those of today, so it is not easy to satisfy both. You need an architecture that can evolve with the needs.