feature removal due to Wayland

Posted Mar 30, 2015 11:00 UTC (Mon) by johannbg (guest, #65743)
In reply to: feature removal due to Wayland by h2
Parent article: GNOME 3.16 released

"Gnome's attitude about this stuff is clear and obvious, so why do people use it when it's so clearly not suited for them?"

The answer to that question is distributions defaults.
( For example have a look at Fedora [1] where other options to Gnome have always been buried in the background through poorly visible/hard to find links to alternatives )

Now why most distributions have chosen ( historically or otherwise ) Gnome as their default desktop environments, an environment that is in continues beta state beats me. ( Well why Fedora does it is pretty obvious *cough Red Hat cough* ).

1. https://getfedora.org/

feature removal due to Wayland

Posted Mar 30, 2015 12:44 UTC (Mon) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link] (1 responses)

> Now why most distributions have chosen ( historically or otherwise ) Gnome as their default desktop environments [...] beats me.

My guess: it's because Qt wasn't Free Software, so GTK and GNOME became the "Linux desktop" default. In other words, path dependence.

feature removal due to Wayland

Posted Mar 30, 2015 13:37 UTC (Mon) by johannbg (guest, #65743) [Link]

QT not being free software was like ca 15 years ago right?

So that's no excuse for distribution ( still ) defaulting to a desktop environment that is in continues beta stage with an unstable UI which is an result of broken development process and or release cycle.

One could say obviously distribution defaulting and gathering feedback for the Gnome community is not paying of since it's still being released just as half implemented (this release wayland/ accessibility/ui design etc, ) as it was those 15 years ago.
( Arguably with things growing worse since the emerging of the UI designers in the community )