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

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 16, 2011 9:43 UTC (Wed) by mjthayer (guest, #39183)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience by sfeam
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

> I have difficulty grasping this point of view. At the point where you have developed a tool as far as it will go, it is not "dead", it is "perfected". Other words that come to mind are "mature" or "stable" or "reliable". If new tools are also needed, so be it. But you should not throw out the old reliable ones while you are still struggling with the design of the new ones.

Just a thought - I share many of the thoughts and worries of people commenting on this article. But I also wonder - are the GNOME people actively preventing anyone from maintaining GNOME 2, or are they just not doing it as much themselves? If the second is true then perhaps something is broken outside of GNOME, if so many people (or is it just that those people are more vocal?) badly want just an ever more polished GNOME 2 and no one is doing it? And if a high percentage of their users would appreciate it why do distributions not step in to do something?

Is it that a lot of people really do want the new GNOME? Or not enough people care? Or do we need a way to pay people to work on that sort of boring thing? Or some other way to make people want to? Or am I completely off?