On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 08:35:56PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Le Ven 8 février 2013 13:22, Olav Vitters a écrit : > > On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 10:34:58AM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: > >> I am providing a datapoint that directly contradicts your original > >> statement, namely that there is a "completely different target > >> audience" for GNOME 2 vs GNOME 3. > >> > >> I am that datapoint. > > > > As are various others during FOSDEM (Vincent Untz asked people to raise > > their hands). No idea how representative that it. > > The FOSDEM poll was stacked — no one really wanted to hurt Vincent Untz > too much given his obvious efforts to be nice, there was this knot of > GNOME people bunched together that were a tad intimidating, and people do > not go to FOSDEM to fight. What is telling however is the complete refusal > of the audience to put systemd and Gnome 3 in the same bucket. Lennart's > efforts to explain his project, understand sysadmin needs, provide a > smooth transition and keep current usages working clearly paid off there. > > So don't overplay the GNOME 3 FOSDEM session, it was an awkward moment for > everyone involved (and certainly not representative of the positive energy > that permeated other presentations). 1. The poll was right at the beginning 2. I don't get how it is intimidating to raise your hand 3. I don't get how we were intimidating 4. A user interface is more like a bike shed than anything else Obviously I sat together with other GNOME people, as I know them. Sometimes I sit randomly in the audience. I find it curious that you find something negative about my behaviour. -- Regards, Olav -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
