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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 11, 2012 18:11 UTC (Sun) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)In reply to: Mena-Quintero: A Friday rant on Gnome 3, journalists, and power users by drag Parent article: Mena-Quintero: A Friday rant on Gnome 3, journalists, and power users
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...
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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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