On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:26:45AM +1100, Toby Corkindale wrote:
That's one possible conclusion, but another completely possible one is: The software works very well for the GNOME developers, and they don't know what all the fuss is about.
this technique works particularly well if you refuse to listen to the users you are allegedly catering for - most of whom were happy enough with gnome2 and just wanted bugfixes and improvements, not the radical change that gnome3 brought....evolution, not revolution. bonus points for telling anyone who doesn't like the direction gnome is heading that they are idiots and "not the target audience". just who the gnome devs think their target audience, i have NFI. I don't think they, or anyone else does either. It certainly isn't existing users, and it's not mac or windows users because they're also reasonably happy with what they've got. For some strange reason there doesn't appear to be a huge number of people who want a third-rate clone of an Apple phone or tablet touchscreen UI on their desktop PC or laptop. gnome3 has done wonders for XFCE's popularity. it's pretty close to what gnome2 users actually wanted, incremental improvements to the UI they had gotten used to for years. same for LXDE, to a lesser extent.
Just because software doesn't do what YOU want/expect, doesn't mean that it isn't working exactly as designed.
true enough. OTOH, just because it's working as designed doesn't mean that the design isn't brain-damaged. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>