Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) [LWN.net]

Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)

Posted Nov 10, 2011 21:25 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) by drag
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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.

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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.