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Mena-Quintero: A Friday rant on Gnome 3, journalists, and power users

Mena-Quintero: A Friday rant on Gnome 3, journalists, and power users

Posted Nov 14, 2012 18:07 UTC (Wed) by jedidiah (guest, #20319)
In reply to: Mena-Quintero: A Friday rant on Gnome 3, journalists, and power users by vonbrand
Parent article: Mena-Quintero: A Friday rant on Gnome 3, journalists, and power users

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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