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Mena-Quintero: A Friday rant on Gnome 3, journalists, and power usersMena-Quintero: A Friday rant on Gnome 3, journalists, and power usersPosted Nov 10, 2012 20:44 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: Mena-Quintero: A Friday rant on Gnome 3, journalists, and power users by Zizzle Parent article: Mena-Quintero: A Friday rant on Gnome 3, journalists, and power users
Gnome devs made a big mistake by not making Gnome 3 and Gnome 2 installable in parallel. If they took that approach then the change it would of gone over a lot smoother for users. A big thing that gets repeated is the feeling of loss of control over the desktop and allowing people to switch back and forth easily would of avoided that perception.
Major problems with that approach is that, however, Gnome devs were not willing to spend their time supporting two different desktops. Even if they were willing to support it trying to maintain two systems would have a deteriorous effect on both. Advanced users would not of taken kindly to bug reports being closed with the equivalent of "Switch to Gnome 3, get somebody else to fix it, or fork it yourself".
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Mena-Quintero: A Friday rant on Gnome 3, journalists, and power users Posted Nov 11, 2012 18:11 UTC (Sun) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link] Don't continue with Gnome 2 is a mistake only if they have plenty of developer bandwidth dedicated to continue Gnome 2 with Gnome 3. As things stand, they have barely enough to move one environment forward. And no, "just keep Gnome 2 forever" would have meant losing the little they have, so that was never an option. Just look at the communities trying to keep Gnome 2 going...
Mena-Quintero: A Friday rant on Gnome 3, journalists, and power users Posted Nov 14, 2012 18:07 UTC (Wed) by jedidiah (guest, #20319) [Link]
All they had to do was not break it.
They could have made it clear that it was an orphan never to be touched again. I have used applications like that for YEARS after the developer abandoned it. That's the nice thing about software. It doesn't wear out. I can still use some crufty old Athena app 20 years later.
The fact that MATE is a bother is not a terribly convincing argument that the GNOME devs did the right thing.
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