On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Máirín Duffy <duffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/28/2013 02:06 AM, Dan Mashal wrote: >> You don't see the point of MATE or Cinnamon? How long did you play with >> them 5 minutes? > > Do you remember the GNOME 1.x => 2.x transition? Similarly to how there > are forks of GNOME now to 'keep the GNOME 2 candle burning,' there were > forks of GNOME 1.x to 'keep the GNOME 1 candle burning.' > > Do you remember what they were called? I didn't; I had to look 'em up. > Do you ever wonder what happened to them? Dead projects nobody seems to > remember. Do we really want to switch to a desktop that history has > shown is likely to become a dead project in a few years? > > http://osdir.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1295 > > It also doesn't seem smart to switch from a desktop on the basis that > Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox - kernel developers, not UI experts or even > typical desktop users by any means - don't like it. I think switching > the desktop that has been our default for over 10 years and 18 releases > requires just a bit more research and reason than that. I agree. Linus as a side cycled through KDE, XFCE and is back to gnome with one of the recent releases. The gnome desktop certainly isn't perfect but I see a lot more users using it than most of the rest of the other options. I don't believe the "no one uses it so we should change" has much credence and while some people have moved to something else and stayed there I think a lot more more have tried others and come back when they realise that all desktops have their issues and it's often a case of "better the devil you know...." but it would be nicer if the gnome team actually initiated a feedback loop with Fedora about some of the issues too. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
