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Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)Posted Nov 10, 2011 12:01 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) by tuxmania Parent article: Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)
That is a curious theory you have, but it ignores the fact that Gnome-shell actually kicks ass and is getting better.
It just takes a while for new software to reach the similar level of usability and capabilities as old software. That is why it's stupid to re-write software unless you have too.
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Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) Posted Nov 10, 2011 20:11 UTC (Thu) by deepfire (subscriber, #26138) [Link]
Are there plans to re-instate the static, fixed workspace grid layout?
Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) Posted Nov 12, 2011 10:49 UTC (Sat) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950) [Link]
Not at the moment I think. But extensions can provide that and people are working on ensuring the extension infrastructure is good enough for that. There is some conflict though as the default should be good enough. If 75% of the users install an extension, it shouldn't be an extension but default behaviour.
Did see that the overview mode might be changed a little (design wiki had new mockups), but too early to exactly know what they're changing.
Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) Posted Nov 13, 2011 17:04 UTC (Sun) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
Isn't it weird to be performing these experiments using the production release?
Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) Posted Nov 13, 2011 19:40 UTC (Sun) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Extensions are a perfectly good place to create experiments on top of a production release.
Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) Posted Nov 21, 2011 17:11 UTC (Mon) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]
I think bronson means the current releases seem more like experiments, if they need so many changes every time (the same goes for Unity, really).
Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) Posted Nov 10, 2011 21:00 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
That's definitely not a 'fact' but your personal opinion.
It would be a fact if droves of new users suddenly flocked to GNOME3. But that's not exactly what's happening. Quite the opposite, in fact - users are fleeing GNOME3.
Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) Posted Nov 13, 2011 7:27 UTC (Sun) by russell (subscriber, #10458) [Link]
The only ass GNOME has kicked is it's users. I've put time and effort into GNOME, promoting GNOME, having GNOME adopted as a platform for paid work. Now they have crippled the platform, alienated users, and destroyed any confidence I had in using it as a base for other systems. Would I trust GNOME with another 10 year road map. No way!
Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) Posted Nov 13, 2011 16:09 UTC (Sun) by Frej (subscriber, #4165) [Link]
Your life is ruined! Give up!
Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) Posted Nov 13, 2011 17:02 UTC (Sun) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
If you mean, "your desktop is ruined! Switch desktops!" then your comment makes perfect sense.
Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) Posted Nov 14, 2011 8:52 UTC (Mon) by russell (subscriber, #10458) [Link]
perhaps you miss understand. If gnome was just a desktop then no big deal. But it's also a platform on which to develop products that put food on the table. Now that it's taken this direction and loosing users, and become somewhat crippled, it's not a very attractive/reliable platform to build on. There are more people than just me paying attention and giving GNOME a wide berth. This year, the next, and maybe forever, won't be the year of the desktop for GNOME unless they do it all themselves. But that isn't going to happen. They are too busy ripping and rebuilding the foundations.
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