What Bjørn Mork misses [LWN.net]

What Bjørn Mork misses

Posted Dec 6, 2012 15:34 UTC (Thu) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
In reply to: What Bjørn Mork misses by HelloWorld
Parent article: Distribution quotes of the week

I don't know how it could have happend any other way. Canonical backed away from GNOME Shell probably because they saw what troubled direction the design was going to and couldn't get consensus to change it so fell back to Unity which re-uses some of the same technology stack but commits fewer design sins.

There was certainly a window there where GNOME2 was becoming the Linux default desktop but that seems to be all shot up now. I don't think GNOME has ever had the resources it needed, even with Canonical, to actually flesh out a stable platform and SDK that would be acceptable to J Random developer who didn't want to have to understand the implementation details of all the components that went into GNOME. There are some third-party apps which use GTK but not so many that are full GNOME apps except what ships with the OS.

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What Bjørn Mork misses

Posted Dec 13, 2012 17:34 UTC (Thu) by oak (subscriber, #2786) [Link]

Compared to Unity, Gnome shell is actually more usable, at least on my laptops.

(In Unity, all apps menus don't fit to top bar, bar on left comes on top of windows when one tries to use elements on left side of window, window close button is on opposite side of the window than on all other OSes and distros one needs to use etc.)