Re: Emacs as a desktop environment

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:15 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Would not a lot more people gain from a better Gnome than from a
>> better Emacs desktop?
>
> A lot more people would gain from a better Thunderbird than from a
> better Emacs desktop.
>
> Let them improve it for all I care.  I'll still not use it rather than
> Emacs for dealing with my mail.  Why should Emacs developers bother
> about Gnome?

Because developers time is a scarce resource.