dfc: you've been hellbanned. "Draining the swamp" is a reference to a 2.0 era initiative on the part of the Gnome team to stop hacking their way around platfor

dfc: you've been hellbanned. "Draining the swamp" is a reference to a 2.0 era initiative on the part of the Gnome team to stop hacking their way around platform deficiencies, and instead fix them directly. That is a big part of the reason there are lots of Gnome-affiliated hackers involved in the lower levels of the desktop Linux stack.