On 02/18/2013 10:22 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
And what is the problem with not improving things that don't need
improving? There needs to be a distinct line between maintaining a
good, stable familiar product and going off on a tangent with
experimental interfaces. The way most people see it, Gnome 3 is
exactly that - a UI experiment, not something you should be bundling
into a stable product.
"...not improving things that don't need improving" is subjective. I
honestly don't know what people expected to happen. What was Gnome
supposed to do? Freeze Gnome 2 and go home? They're developers, they're
gonna develop. If more of them were around, maybe some of them would
have kept Gnome 2 alive in maintenance. But, I think it's pretty
obvious that wasn't the case.
Not liking Gnome Shell is a legitimate position. It's a long way from
there to asserting it shouldn't exist at all.
What happened to Gnome 2 -- forked by MATE -- is, btw, exactly what is
supposed to happen in FOSS.
I couldn't agree more. It is a great shame that this doesn't happen
more often, but when the dissatisfaction of users really gets to a
point where enough momentum for a fork is achieved, it is a pretty
damning statement.
I think forks happen to scratch developer itches, not to meet user
desires. I just don't see any substantial link, other than good will,
between user wishes and developer goals. in FOSS.
Personally, having some years of professional exposure to mediating
between developers and users, I think most users don't know how to
communicate their actual needs to developers, and most developers don't
know how to elicit that information. I found users typically framed
their desires within the framework of their current software, not in
terms of the behaviors they needed to perform their jobs. That freed
developers to avoid creating software that supported those behaviors and
allowed them to write faster and shinier versions of the old software.
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