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Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)Posted Nov 10, 2011 19:34 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) by ThinkRob Parent article: Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)
What they actually did was decide to spend their time working on what they want to work.
Anybody else that wants to spend their personal time on Gnome 2 they are free to do so. And it looks like a few people did, like with the MATE desktop.
You can fault them for a few things they did.. But they didn't for anybody to do anything. It's impossible for them to do that even if they wanted too. Only could do this if they kept their software closed source and depended on the violence of the government to enforce licensing requirements, like some other people are wont to do.
Inflated sense of entitlement seem to distort the perspective of many people. This is not something that is unusual for human beings.
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Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) Posted Nov 10, 2011 21:25 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] What they actually did was decide to spend their time working on what they want to work. And their users saw it, (many) decided it was bad, and therefore switched (or whined :)) If the goal of the GNOME developers is to spend their time working on what they enjoy, they have apparently succeeded admirably. If their goal is to have a happy user base, that success is decidedly mixed. Now I am completely fine with developers having fun with doing whatever they want and not caring about a happy user base. But if that's the goal of GNOME developers, they should at least state that as their policy up front in order to be fair to would-be GNOME users.
Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) Posted Nov 11, 2011 2:35 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
> But if that's the goal of GNOME developers, they should at least state that as their policy up front
This. Absolutely this.
I remember talking to an IT manager of a small California town experimenting with deploying Gnome 2 desktops (dunno which distro) to some regular city employees. It seemed to be going OK -- most people just needed to know how to open a browser, email, and PDFs, edit Word files, and print. He was able to get everyone productive again, and most didn't care that it wasn't Windows. They learn something once, then do it for a decade.
I can't imagine what Gnome 3 has done to his life.
Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) Posted Nov 10, 2011 23:44 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
Personally I see a little point in supporting GNOME2 or KDE3. They are pining for the fjords and pushing up the daises.
You are inevitably going to work with more and more crappier code (as workarounds accumulate) while the state of the art moves farther.
So all real sustainable projects must be based on the mainline versions of QT/KDE or GTK/GNOME. I've been tracking GTK and GNOME mailing lists and I saw multiple instances when developers opposing the One True Vision were alienated. So also a good climate for forks/branches should be there.
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