Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

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On 04/26/2011 05:23 PM, Gerald Henriksen wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 03:43:55 +0000 (UTC), you wrote:
>
>> Why did Fedora decide to abandon Gnome 2, instead of offering Gnome 3 as
>> an experimental college-level project via a spin (as one poster here already
>> asked), representing a work-in-progress where geeks still learn their Computer
>> Science principles and skills ?
>
> As much as I dislike Gnome 3 and am considering my alternatives, it is
> very unfair to dump on Fedora for the problems with Gnome 3.
Why? I think it's appropriate to dump Fedora because of this, because 
Fedora has made Gnome 3 it's default desktop and because Fedora is 
actively promoting it.

>> Do you know that even on Gnome 3 Shell devs (and users) list people admit that
>> they possibly boxed themselves into a corner and now are not willing or able
>> to reverse the course where things went wrong ?
>>
>> It is a Fedora problem, and it will be a Red Hat problem in due time !
>
> Red Hat is fortunate that they can wait and see, and if necessary
> evaluate the cost/benefit and if necessary allocate resources to the
> issue.
Well, as others already said, the current Fedora 15 desktop is unusable 
to many people. "Kool smartphone kiz" and newcomers may like it, as I 
feel it's unusable for "business class use-cases" due to its GUI-design.

> Fedora, as a volunteeer effort, cannot.
It's worse. I fear Fedora will loose contributors, because Fedora is not 
shipping the DE these users want.
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