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

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 16, 2011 0:13 UTC (Wed) by Tara_Li (guest, #26706)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience by sramkrishna
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Do you *NEED* as many volunteers? If it's down to just minor bug and security fixes, is that so out of line? Just churning to keep people busy is make-work, not real innovation.

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The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 16, 2011 1:37 UTC (Wed) by sramkrishna (subscriber, #72628) [Link] (2 responses)

Your question doesn't make any sense. For some people, the desktop experience reached perfection when bash3 was released. Without the drive of "just works" you would not have had the kind of ease of use you get today.

I suspect distros would also be unhappy (you know all those companies that hire free software people?) if we just stopped doing things.

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 16, 2011 11:26 UTC (Wed) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link]

The key difference is that when bash3 was released the bash team didn't decide that bash4 needed to have incompatible syntax and require 3D acceleration in order to remain relevant. Instead bash4 builds on bash3 in a backwards compatible way, adding and not subtracting.

> I suspect distros would also be unhappy ... if we just stopped doing things.

How about solving new problems and not re-hashing old problems? A lack of feature density is a sign of immaturity, not a sign of usability.

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 16, 2011 13:50 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

Without the drive of "just works" you would not have had the kind of ease of use you get today.

Umm? I do not believe computers today are significantly easier to use than they were 10 or 15 years ago. In fact, I find some of the modern desktop trends in GNOME and KDE making computers harder to use.