----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ian Malone" <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 9:51:41 AM > Subject: Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop > > On 11 February 2013 07:15, Casey Dahlin <cdahlin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 11:34:34AM +0000, Ian Malone wrote: > >> Gnome 2 slowly returned to the old behaviour in many ways. Gnome 3 > >> is > >> starting to do this. > >> > > > > As someone who, I presume, does not like Gnome 3, and as someone > > who, I will > > wildly guess, shares the notion that GNOME devs are doing whatever > > they want > > and not listening to your use cases... > > > > ...are you certain... > > > > ...absolutely certain... > > > > ...that you'd like to be on record setting the precedent that GNOME > > 3 is > > admitting failure by compromising to your standards? > > > > On record? Is there going to be a trial? > What frustrates me is it's such an uphill battle. > Step 1: Everything changes. > Step 2: Users protest, some leave. > Step 3: Supporters respond there's nothing wrong and essentially > everyone who doesn't like it is too stupid or lazy. > Step 4: Users carry on complaining. > Step 5: Some features are gradually re-added, without ever > acknowledging there was a problem in the first place. > Step 6: Minor release? Go to step 4. > Step 7: Major release? Go to step 5. Hmm, you seem to forgot that there is also alternative: Step 2: New users try it, like it, stay with it. P.S. As everything is subjective I have to assure you that I'm one of these - former KDE, now Gnome 3 user. Alexander Kurtakov Red Hat Eclipse team > > -- > imalone > http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
