I think the point is that it takes many years to build traction. We should consider we have established players in desktop and a trend towards Android, iOS, MeeGo etc. powered devices in the consumer space over a pure play Linux distro. We would have been better served in the traditional distro space in building on the traction we had with GNOME 2. After all, it finally was offering a fairly compelling alternative. My blog has more personal opinion on consumer behavior and desktop adoption - my belief is innovation should happen in the new platform space, not on traditional desktops. Throwing away 30 years of tradition is not actually what mainstream computing users want. Sorry for top post. Jon. -- Sent from my phone - message formatted and/or shortened accordingly. -----Original Message----- From: Adam Williamson [awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx] Received: Saturday, 23 Apr 2011, 10:51 To: For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases [test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Subject: Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now... On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 01:56 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > While some interesting things have come out of the big changes in both > GNOME and KDE over the years, when the big changes land, they tend to > frustrate existing users. IMHO this is a big thing that has killed the > perpetual "year of the Linux desktop" hopes. GNOME 2.0 came out in 2002, so we had that interface for nine years. It's not like no-one gave it a chance. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
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