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Cinnamon 1.4 released

Cinnamon 1.4 released

Posted Mar 20, 2012 13:11 UTC (Tue) by nevets (subscriber, #11875)
In reply to: Cinnamon 1.4 released by jku
Parent article: Cinnamon 1.4 released

> expressing ones frustration is usually possible without doing that

It is possible, but it is very hard to do. Especially when you feel that you are being belittled when the developers just tell you to deal with it, you will eventually like it. That causes more hostility than frustration.

But I agree, keeping emotion out of the discussion is probably more productive. I know I have said a lot of things about Gnome3 out of emotion than anything else. But it just feels so good to do that :-)


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Cinnamon 1.4 released

Posted Mar 20, 2012 14:02 UTC (Tue) by danieldk (guest, #27876) [Link]

> It is possible, but it is very hard to do. Especially when you feel that you are being belittled when the developers just tell you to deal with it, you will eventually like it.

Well, there is a historical precedent here. I remember the anger GNOME 2.0 was sometimes met with. Nowadays people want to revert back to GNOME 2 ;).

The problem is more that change is so abrupt, which gives a period where GNOME 3 is not ready for the general public and GNOME 2 is unmaintained. A slightly more evolutionary approach would have helped, I guess.

Still, I like GNOME 3.

Cinnamon 1.4 released

Posted Mar 20, 2012 14:18 UTC (Tue) by nevets (subscriber, #11875) [Link]

I remember the conversion from 1 to 2, and 2 was very busted. The complaints were that there was a lot of functionality that was lost with that conversion. The result was that gnome2 went through a very painful transformation to bring back those lost features.

Yes people want to go back to gnome2, but not to the gnome2 that was released in the beginning, but to the gnome2 that grew to do what the users want.

Yes it looks very familiar, but this time around it seems that the developers are trying harder not to listen to the complaints. Instead we have Cinnamon and addons that seems to move gnome to what users want. Yes, it does seem that history is repeating itself. But I don't want to go through that pain again, and just moved to xfce. Maybe I'll come back after gnome is done with the growing pains.

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