The year of the Linux tablet? [LWN.net]

The year of the Linux tablet?

Posted Aug 26, 2011 15:15 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: The year of the Linux tablet? by smoogen
Parent article: The year of the Linux tablet?

I think we have been picky about responses we choose to consider (invariably negative ones apparently) and discard the really interesting and deeper choices.

It has been obvious from the start the GNOME Shell was designed to be extensible (a whole lot of extensions really, have you done a yum -C search gnome-shell-extension in Fedora 15 lately?) and the recent discussions around setting up a website to make this process easier with no restrictions beyond robustness and security should have been enough messaging but unfortunately lost in the noise. I think, GNOME developers should have been vocal to compensate and they have failed to do so as well. I hope they do better marketing (beyond just gnome3.org).

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The year of the Linux tablet?

Posted Aug 26, 2011 16:02 UTC (Fri) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]

No I haven't done that search, and thank you for pointing it out. I realize that a lot of my own negativity towards starts in the beginning of the day with a

"Gnome 3 Failed to Load... This most likely means your system .. is not capable of delivering the full GNOME 3 experience."

which translate to me as "You aren't rich/good/etc enough to use this."

Which I realize is my own problem due to my self-identifying with the hardware too much. I do see that F16 doesn't remind me of this every day which is a nice change. And I see there are 37 extensions I wasn't aware of before.