> Has anyone taken a poll from the Fedora Community > as to what new directions Gnome-X should be taking > BEFORE making such a paradigm shift? Were this a Are they paying customers, do they have support contracts ? > commercial product, you will hearing from your customers > who otherwise will drop the product (gnome-3, that is) and > seek solace elsewhere. IMO, the peanut-gallery started with > Gnome-3, not Gnome-2. Fedora is not a product with customers. Quite what Red Hat Enterprise customers have to say to Red Hat down the line when/if it becomes the desktop of whatever their next product is I don't know. > It seems to me, a LOT of work went into Gnome-3, > with the expectation that the Linux community will have > to have it ramroded into their throats, mercilessly water > boarded without resistance, and their screams silenced... It's very hard to force people to take anything in the free world. Windows 8 you will get the desktop delivered as defined by MS. In the Linux case well if you don't like it run something else. In the case of business users I doubt many use Fedora for that, and those using RHEL, CentOS etc will have five odd years to ponder the question anyway. I do think there is a problem with the Gnome development model and its unwillingness of many of its developers to accept external input as anything but criticism of them personally. The foundation-list is currently involved in a fascinating example where many of the developers are attempting to block and stonewall a third party survey of desktop users and their interests. It reminds me of the behaviour of failing governments that are about to implode before an election is forced - a complete total denial. I shall continue voting Xfce 8) Alan -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
