On 02/16/2013 01:32 PM, jonc wrote:
I also believe one reason they've reduced the feature set in Gnome 3 is to reduce future maintenance demands. After all, it's not like they number in the hundreds.
Maintenance requirement was also the reason cited for removing custom partitioning features from the text mode installer since F11. The danger with this approach, however, is that taken to it's logical conclusion, it leads to this kind of an end result:
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20020929
To each his or her own, of course. Personal tastes and choices don't project well on everyone else's reality, though. Otherwise, I'd be ranting about how KDE and XFCE are the result of miscreant developers possessed of no appreciation of real user needs.
Funny you should say that. I am a refugee to KDE on non-RAM-limited machines specifically because I found Gnome 3 so utterly unusable when I first saw it that I cannot imagine myself ever trying it again. And I use XFCE on my ARM machines with limited amounts of RAM. Not only am I not convinced that the Gnome 3 developers know what their users' needs are, I am not convinced that they even know who their users are; and this is fine for the reasons I've said before - it's their project to run or ruin as they please. What I find harder to explain is why distribution packagers are annoying their users by entertaining the project maintainers' experiments.
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