The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience [LWN.net]

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 15, 2011 18:51 UTC (Tue) by me@jasonclinton.com (subscriber, #52701)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience by jubal
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

I'm part of a secret cabal of GNOME developers out to take away your, personal, favorite configuration options. We smoke cigars in Havana surrounded by servants thinking of ways to terrorize our user, you know, because won't anyone think of the *cigars*.

Oh wait, no, I remember now: I'm just the marketing volunteer/team member who made a special effort to reach out to a journalist and try to facilitate and explain the rationale behind a rearrangement of a font size option buried 4 levels down in GNOME 2.

I'm spending every waking, spare hour this week working on the GNOME 3 launch so keep your snark to yourself, please.

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Posted Mar 15, 2011 19:10 UTC (Tue) by jubal (subscriber, #67202) [Link] (8 responses)

Oh well, I do hope that the choice to behave like a grandiose arrogant jerk and use a belittling and condescending manner of communication was yours.

If I'm mistaken and you've been forced to behave that way, please take my sincerest apologies.

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 15, 2011 19:11 UTC (Tue) by me@jasonclinton.com (subscriber, #52701) [Link] (1 responses)

Try reading the linked email before you comment again.

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Posted Mar 15, 2011 22:24 UTC (Tue) by jubal (subscriber, #67202) [Link]

Unfortunately, I've read the whole e-mail thread. Also unfortunately, I do remember very well both the venerable GNOME 2.0 release (I had to switch to KDE at that point until GNOME started to be usable again) and the developers' attitude at that time.

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 15, 2011 19:14 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (1 responses)

As I mentioned in the article, the GNOME folks were most helpful when I hit the lists with dumb questions. I still don't agree with all of the directions they are taking, but I do believe they are trying to make a better desktop in the best way they know. Please, let's not attack them personally, that doesn't help.

In retrospect, I should probably have left that quote out of the article for the same reason.

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Posted Mar 15, 2011 22:52 UTC (Tue) by jcm (subscriber, #18262) [Link]

I think it's important that this point be made. I for one am very unhappy with the direction GNOME is taking, but I do believe they genuinely mean well, and I know many of the people are great human beings. Nonetheless, I totally disagree on their direction :)

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Posted Mar 15, 2011 19:17 UTC (Tue) by Trelane (guest, #56877) [Link] (3 responses)

*plonk*
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Posted Mar 15, 2011 23:33 UTC (Tue) by fb (guest, #53265) [Link] (2 responses)

Why make a public announcement that you are going to block someone's posts?

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Posted Mar 18, 2011 22:04 UTC (Fri) by eli (guest, #11265) [Link] (1 responses)

To provide feedback that such an action was taken, and provide a hint that a change in behaviour should perhaps be considered.

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Posted Mar 19, 2011 19:46 UTC (Sat) by jubal (subscriber, #67202) [Link]

a very public plonk usually involves a good deal of the «as a [human?] being living on high moral ground I really have to show off my moral superiority» attitude and it's not exactly the best tool for providing feedback it a) announces closing the communication channels completely and, obviously, b) it provides quite strong hint, that the the plonker doesn't care about further behaviour of plonkee

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 23, 2011 15:36 UTC (Wed) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link]

If this is marketing, gnome does not need detractors.