Lea: The Unity design process (and how you can play a part in it) [LWN.net]

Lea: The Unity design process (and how you can play a part in it)

Posted Feb 18, 2012 23:07 UTC (Sat) by richo123 (guest, #24309)
In reply to: Lea: The Unity design process (and how you can play a part in it) by ovitters
Parent article: Lea: The Unity design process (and how you can play a part in it)

This forum and Lxer have been absolutely deluged with anti Unity and gnome 3 posts. Check the archives for yourself.

If you don't think there has been a backlash you are in some serious denial.

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Lea: The Unity design process (and how you can play a part in it)

Posted Feb 19, 2012 10:34 UTC (Sun) by Rehdon (guest, #45440) [Link] (1 responses)

Even Ubuntu-friendly sites like OMG Ubuntu and Webupdate have been deluged by critiques when Unity/GS came out, and the few polls that have been put online show quite a problem in acceptance for Unity and GS. Of course it's much easier to think that since people attending conferences show enthusiasm (doh) everything is going well, and it's just a few naysayers that are trying to ruin the celebration parties with their "irrational hatred".

Rehdon

Lea: The Unity design process (and how you can play a part in it)

Posted Feb 20, 2012 8:37 UTC (Mon) by ovitters (guest, #27950) [Link]

I was talking about GNOME 3, not Unity. As said, I mentioned FOSDEM, a conference attended by 5000 people. People who care enough about the software to actually travel. A bit more involved than posting on LWN. As I also mentioned, that conference is not about GNOME, it is about free software in general.

You've also side-stepped my point that I talk to people about GNOME 3 and the feedback is really positive.

Lea: The Unity design process (and how you can play a part in it)

Posted Feb 20, 2012 8:42 UTC (Mon) by ovitters (guest, #27950) [Link]

The only negativity is by a few people on a few selected sites. If you check gnome.org, you'll see that GNOME 3 got a product of the year award. Some other site, now suddenly the most popular desktop. Furthermore, when talking to people in person, they're also really positive.

I do agree that some sites are really negative. It seems that some sites just attracts such people. Topics also include move to /usr, systemd, pulseaudio, etc.

What my point is that outside of a few selected sites, feedback is hugely positive.