Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.28 [LWN.net]

Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.28

Posted Sep 24, 2009 21:06 UTC (Thu) by kov (subscriber, #7423)
In reply to: Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.28 by beranger
Parent article: Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.28

GNOME is not treating users as stupid, it just focus on different kinds of users than some other environments. If you like software that exposes its guts, and expects you to know about its internals, and specific names, that is OK, my mom doesn't really care, she just wants to watch videos. Me as well, for what is worth.

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Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.28

Posted Sep 24, 2009 23:10 UTC (Thu) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

Ditto for me.

Gnome, to me, is about taking something that is complex and trying to make it
easy and approachable as possible. Its not expecting the users to understand
what is going on. Its not about providing a bazillion different options that
users are presented with at every turn.

So I only have to care about the things that I care about. So what if I have
to occasionally dig down to gconf to get a specific tweak I want? Its not a
serious hardship and there is no reason why every other user in the world is
forced to make a choice based on my choice or even know if it exists.