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The GNOME project at 15The GNOME project at 15Posted Aug 18, 2012 15:43 UTC (Sat) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)In reply to: The GNOME project at 15 by hp Parent article: The GNOME project at 15
But aren't those library users exactly the sort of "everyone" that Gnome 3 is targeting? That's what I thought based on previous lwn comments (could certainly be mistaken).
If Gnome 3 isn't for the old-timers like me, and it isn't for current osx/windows users, and it isn't for school computer labs or corporate desktops, and it isn't for library walk-ins, then who is it for? Honest question. I'd love to know who the gnome project has in mind when evaluating upcoming changes.
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The GNOME project at 15 Posted Aug 18, 2012 16:03 UTC (Sat) by hp (subscriber, #5220) [Link]
I wouldn't feel comfortable answering on their behalf, but I think it's the key question for any software project. I'd say this is the place to start when discussing UI decisions.
The GNOME project at 15 Posted Sep 1, 2012 17:04 UTC (Sat) by rich0 (guest, #55509) [Link]
It would seem to me that it is mostly targeted to things like netbooks or other small laptops, or tablets. The netbook platform actually makes sense, and from what I've heard people running those love Unity or Gnome 3.
Tablets just don't make sense, since almost nobody replaces the OS on them with something different. About the closest I've seen is maybe running something else in a chroot, without X11. Getting Gnome on one of those is a real pain anyway with all the proprietary drivers and great variation in hardware. They aren't like your typical PC motherboard where no matter what you can at least get the thing into VGA mode using the same IO ports you'd have used on a 386.
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