GNOME has lost its way [LWN.net]

GNOME has lost its way

Posted May 19, 2004 16:59 UTC (Wed) by uravanbob (subscriber, #4050)
In reply to: GNOME has lost its way by rgmoore
Parent article: The Spatial Way

So you're saying that since I've been using Unix(tm)en since 1983 I should use the command line for everything, most especially things I don't do very often?

The complaint to the GNOME developers is that in their apparent goal to simplify things for newbies, they've critically and unnecessarily broken things that used to work just great for the rest of us. My personal favorite example is the desktop switching - metacity sucks but it isn't worth my time to keep fighting it.

If only Enlightenment 17 would land... :-)

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GNOME has lost its way

Posted May 19, 2004 20:32 UTC (Wed) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]

The 'rest of us' are a shrinking minority.. people who want to look under the hood are going to be less and less as computers become more comodities.

Most of these complaints sound like my grandfathers complaining that automatics were ruining the car, that you couldnt work on an engine anymore because of all the fuel-saving/air-cleaning crap.. of course my grandfather told me he used to hear the same thing from his grandfather about horse and buggies being replaced by cars.

In the end, we all sound like the loons in the park yelling because the world changed and we didnt.

GNOME has lost its way

Posted May 20, 2004 19:11 UTC (Thu) by cdmiller (subscriber, #2813) [Link]

The target market you define for Gnome is not the folks posting comments here.

GNOME has lost its way

Posted May 20, 2004 19:44 UTC (Thu) by raytd (guest, #4823) [Link]

The 'rest of us' are a shrinking minority.. people who want to look under the hood are going to be less and less as computers become more comodities.

I beg to differ. F/OSS will eventually become ubiquitous providing the resources to countless numbers of new developers that wish to 'look under the hood'. I haven't counted lately, but either there are a lot more F/OSS developers or they've all just recently setup project homepages.

I do think that the people like your grandfather (soon to be you and I) either became overwhelmed by the change or became mechanics. (FWIW, I agree with him on the point of automatics.)