On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 01:31:43PM +0100, Rowland Penny wrote: > As I said earlier, I only found out that Gnome 3 was coming when it > was well into development. The developers should have firstly looked > at Gnome 2 and asked what is wrong with it, what do users what/need > and then come up with a draft design and thrown it open for > discussion. If this happened I never found it mentioned anywhere. Very generally speaking, that was done. But there are important differences: - the developers work mostly according to what the designers made/decided - "open for discussion": it was, but they also did usability testing however: in reality only a limited number of people will give/be requested feedback that's why the sampling should be good enough - there have been many news articles about upcoming GNOME 3 - there have been various live USB images to try out GNOME 3 - people made an gnome3.org website to get the word out - loads of blog posts about GNOME3 But to note: release-team has a restricted role in this: It is there to ensure releases happen, but we're not there to design/develop GNOME. > In my opinion Gnome 3 as standard is not fit for purpose as a > desktop for general use, I tried to use it, found that things that I > have taken for granted were seemingly not there or if they were > there I had to click the mouse several times and move all over the > screen, and you call this progress, I call it a mess. That's is why you can also use the keyboard. I don't find counting mouse clicks too useful though. Things are a bit more gradual than that. > I had to spend several hours on google to get a semi working desktop > but I am still not happy and will probably have to invest more time > to put right what the developers have messed up. GNOME 3 works totally differently than anything before. So it takes time to get used to. It also is not for everyone. GNOME 2 didn't cause many strong feelings, more or less ambivalence. GNOME 3 is either hated or loved. Note that if you want things to change, suggest to refrain from using phrases like "messed up". More likely to be ignored that way. -- Regards, Olav _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
