When everything is made simple, you don’t need instruction manuals. The GUI has been optimized for easy navigation. Everything fully described. Each setting reversible and applied without a request for administrative privileges. This is our contribution to the community, the MyUnity 3.0 Source Code.

So if you believe in the principles behind UNIX and Open Source, please don't write software which requires any of the Gnome/KDE and DBus API. Writing X11 programs with xcb and proper RPC APIs like SUNRPC or Thrift should be more than good enough. So, please support choice and freedom by implementing programs the right way instead of the Linux/Gnome/DBus way.

With strong competition from Beagle, especially in the number of search options, Recoll just manages to cling on to the top spot. Forcing the user to index the system manually is actually a clever design. For anyone who's convinced that desktop search tools eat up too many resources, this offers the opportunity to index the system at a convenient time. It should therefore help Recoll to attract users who'd normally distance themselves from desktop search tools.

Defining the keywords to look for and avoid for each search helps Recoll accurately locate the correct file each time. Other tools should also consider adopting this feature.

Korrekt, der neue Login-Manager ist jetzt eigentlich ein stinknormaler Gtk.Dialog der vom User “gdm” aufgerufen wird. Dieser User hat auch eine gconf-Datenbank in der man auch reinschreiben kann welches Theme benutzt wird.

Maybe it is just that FOSS is not good at making innovation a success. Red Hat invented facebook (Mugshot) but it went nowhere.
Jono Bacon build something Twitter-like and nobody cared.

You either need marketing or stamina to build user communities and just stick with what works for a really long time.