On 09/26/2011 11:59 PM, Roger wrote: > On 26/09/11 19:38, Andrew Haley wrote: >> On 09/22/2011 02:15 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: >>> Alan Cox is exactly right that the users of Fedora products get them >>> free and one can make a strong case that therefore Fedora developers >>> have no responsibility to listen to user's complaints. >>> >>> However, the Fedora users provide a service to the ReHat company of >>> identifying bugs that otherwise would show up to annoy the paying users >>> of RedHat Enterprise . >>> >>> This is probably a weak argument to support the developers of Fedora >>> software listening to its users but what is clear is the current >>> situation leaves a bad taste in the mouths of the current Fedora >>> user-base. Clearly developers can ignore our complaints, but I have no >>> evidence that the paying Enterprise customers will be more tolerant of >>> the strange direction that RedHat is taking. >> This is all too vague for me to understand. What are you talking about? >> > Some say that the new Fedora GUI is unhelpful and possibly difficult to > use, preferring a simpler desktop. Ahh, this is all about GNOME 3. It's very unfair to describe the actions/attitude of GNOME developers at that of all Fedora developers. > This resulted in a discussion touching on the developers responsibility > to users, if any. > Ubuntu and Fedora 14 offers the choice of new or classic. Not to mention KDE and XFCE. GNOME 3 is, to say the least, controversial. Ubuntu Unity hasn't had a uniformly great reception either. GNOME 3 is still in its first release, and it'll be interesting to see how it develops. Andrew. -- 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
