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Dricot: A freasy future for GNOMEDricot: A freasy future for GNOMEPosted Aug 11, 2012 11:42 UTC (Sat) by slashdot (guest, #22014)Parent article: Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME
How about starting from the basics?
Like, say, stopping removing features, reinstating the ones that were removed, and adding a lot of new features to achieve parity with GNOME 2 and Windows 7.
Then, once the desktop is done, maybe, they could start thinking about tablets, clouds, being "freasy", pink ponies or whatever.
Pretty ridiculous how these people focus on irrelevant things without seeing the gigantic elephant in the room, i.e. that in many cases their desktop is less capable and has a worse design than desktops from decades ago.
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Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME Posted Aug 12, 2012 2:44 UTC (Sun) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950) [Link]
A project can do multiple things at the same time, so your suggestion is a bit pointless.
Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME Posted Aug 12, 2012 7:49 UTC (Sun) by russell (subscriber, #10458) [Link]
But GNOME is not doing multiple things at the same time, this is the PROBLEM.
GNOME will abandon their current user base just to chase new users. i.e. they are willing to have zero users ( momentarily if they are lucky ) in the hope of having different users. And in a market that have missed!
They should try doing multiple things at the same time. Start from a position of strength, don't restart from scratch. Don't leave your existing users behind. Don't remove functionality. Have a policy of no regressions BEFORE releasing new stuff. And FINALLY get a roadmap that is believable and has user buy in.
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