feature removal due to Wayland

Posted Mar 30, 2015 12:44 UTC (Mon) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266)
In reply to: feature removal due to Wayland by johannbg
Parent article: GNOME 3.16 released

> 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 )