Questioning corporate involvement in GNOME development

Posted Jun 5, 2014 12:21 UTC (Thu) by dag- (guest, #30207)
In reply to: Questioning corporate involvement in GNOME development by mcatanzaro
Parent article: Questioning corporate involvement in GNOME development

When you start to "redesign" an interface for potentially millions of new users, and alienate tens of thousands of active users in the process, you may end up with a very small community to promote your new interface.

And I think that effectively happened with Gnome3.

PS I am a Gnome user ever since it existed (before I used WindowMaker), never really used KDE or anything else.

I don't like Gnome3 (on Fedora) compared to Gnome2 on many accounts. It looks nice, but it works impaired and frustrates me every time I use it. Luckily since I use RHEL mostly (and only occasionally Fedora) I wasn't affected, but now with RHEL7 coming to my desktop I hope the transition is not going to alienate me.

Questioning corporate involvement in GNOME development

Posted Jun 5, 2014 13:29 UTC (Thu) by mcatanzaro (subscriber, #93033) [Link]

You'll probably be using Classic Mode, the default in RHEL 7, which is intended to cater to users who preferred GNOME 2, with a menu for selecting applications, minimize buttons, etc. (I'm pretty sure Classic Mode is an example of development driven by Red Hat's corporate interests. I don't think that's a bad thing.)