Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.28 [LWN.net]

Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.28

Posted Sep 24, 2009 7:57 UTC (Thu) by ovitters (guest, #27950)
In reply to: Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.28 by beranger
Parent article: Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.28

Please watch your language.

Anyway, your trolling. The answer has already been given, you're just ignoring it.

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Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.28

Posted Sep 24, 2009 8:10 UTC (Thu) by beranger (guest, #39167) [Link] (6 responses)

I'm sory to say, but only stupid guys use the words "troll", "trolling" when they don't agree with the interlocutor. For once, I'll exclude *you* from the named list, but it's my human right to a dignity, and "troll" is the supreme insult coming from fanboys who are too lazy to use *arguments* instead of sticking idiotic labels to people.

What was the answer? That Tomboy is not "a dependency" of GNOME?

GNOME is *actively advertising* its Mono-based applications, including Tomboy, F-Spot and this "GNOME Media Player" I've never heard of before!

Is this *normal*?

How can a simple question raise so easily idiotic reactions of the kind "You're trolling"?

I'm fscking using Linux since 1994, so I HAVE THE MORAL RIGHT TO ASK QUESTIONS AND I HAVE THE RIGHT *NOT* TO BE CALLED A TROLL!

Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.28

Posted Sep 24, 2009 8:39 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] (1 responses)

@all: How about we all just forget about what we think about beranger's writing style for a minute. Can someone confirm that "GNOME Media Player" in the release notes means Totem (and not Novell's mono-based thing called "GNOME Media Player")?

@beranger: I actually thought your first question was a good one, and I also don't see how a link to the Totem page is an answer, but if you quickly jump to allcaps and asterisks, everyone will just get distracted. This was easily predictable, so doing it is a way to choose to fail in getting an answer.

Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.28

Posted Sep 24, 2009 11:49 UTC (Thu) by jond (subscriber, #37669) [Link]

"How about we all just forget about what we think about beranger's writing
style for a minute.".

Whilst it in no way invalidates any arguments he/she may make; the Web is
too full of such heated and impenetrable diatribe that many people can (and
perhaps should) choose to focus their time and attention on well written and
polite comments instead.

Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.28

Posted Sep 24, 2009 8:40 UTC (Thu) by GhePeU (subscriber, #56133) [Link]

Are we reading too much boycottnovell, aren't we?

totem == GNOME[b]'s[/b] Media Player != GNOME Media Player

Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.28

Posted Sep 24, 2009 8:59 UTC (Thu) by hppnq (guest, #14462) [Link]

How can a simple question raise so easily idiotic reactions of the kind "You're trolling"?

Because the gmp page you link to is four years old.

Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.28

Posted Sep 24, 2009 9:10 UTC (Thu) by ovitters (guest, #27950) [Link] (1 responses)

No, you do not have a right not to be called a troll.

Read http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.26/#rnusers...

Same error was made there (apart from the developer, please often call it Media instead of Movie). Anyway, if someone points you to totem and you still insist on trying to raise a non-issue, then yeah.. you're trolling.

And about:
"GNOME is *actively advertising* its Mono-based applications, including Tomboy, F-Spot and this "GNOME Media Player" I've never heard of before!"

F-Spot is not part of GNOME.

I am not aware we're advertising Tomboy. Would be nice to do more advertisements in general though.

Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.28

Posted Sep 24, 2009 13:53 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]

>Same error was made there (apart from the developer, please often call it Media instead of Movie). Anyway, if someone points you to totem and you still insist on trying to raise a non-issue, then yeah.. you're trolling.

Must you be so obnoxious?

He *specifically* said that it was mentioned separately to Totem, which would sensibly be interpreted as meaning that they are different things. The expected uselessly-terse-and-insulting OSS-style response was given, and when it was pointed out that the person giving the response had clearly not read the original post, was immediately labeled a troll.

Your behaviour has been apalling, and the fact that he then went totally non-linear does not excuse it.