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clarificationclarificationPosted Sep 4, 2012 17:05 UTC (Tue) by dowdle (subscriber, #659)In reply to: clarification by Zea Parent article: Day: Taking GNOME 3 to the next level
This wasn't an "article" nor a piece of "premium content". It was just a news item... where they are making the community aware of various happenings in the FLOSS community. They don't just do it with GNOME related content but with EVERYTHING... so I find no fault with LWN for posting this... nor with "adding" to the problem by posting this.
The sad fact is that some people are bitter with GNOME and they seem to wallow in it.
As for me, I like and occasionally use GNOME 3.x. I also like and occasionally use KDE 4.x and XFCE. It all depends on my use case. I do not feel compelled to comment and say how I like GNOME 3 every time there is a news item posting on LWN... unlike the "haters". :)
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clarification Posted Sep 5, 2012 8:41 UTC (Wed) by Zea (guest, #86552) [Link]
medias create myths about heroes and scapegoats. It is the same story for most genres of journalism. Sports, politics, and open source.
Mr Corbet did his share of GNOME bashing *earlier*, some of it justified. Today is another story and GNOME3 is shaping up nicely. The same old "heroes and scapegoats" doesnt apply anymore. Mr Days blog is full of new GNOME features but no one talks about em.
Like it or not, the comments so far is not about Mr Days blog. It is the same old talk(rant). We would be better off without the commenting. Maybe people then would actualy read the article!
Comments off please.
clarification Posted Sep 5, 2012 9:03 UTC (Wed) by cmccabe (guest, #60281) [Link]
At this point (it may change later) I literally see no negative comments about GNOME3 except for reddit's obvious troll, and one neutral comment by someone who doesn't use GNOME3 now but hopes to in the future if it improve for his use case. Hardly a case for "comments off."
I think people have gotten tired of being negative about GNOME. They clearly have a philosophy which is different than some other desktop environments. You either buy into it, or you don't. I was willing to give GNOME3 a try: I would encourage other people to try it too. I didn't end up selecting it as my DE, but that's neither here nor there. I've talked about it elsewhere: it's probably about as interesting to you as my choice of vi or emacs, and it has nothing to do with this article.
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