Why Isn't GNOME Listening?
Submitted by srlinuxx on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 23:18
Ten months ago, GNOME 3 was released. Since then, there has been a steady murmur of complaints, mostly about a design that forces all users to work in the same way. And what have GNOME developers learned from the experience?
All the complaints, all the extensions to revert to GNOME 2's behavior, all the interest in Linux Mint's Cinnamon, which recreates GNOME 2 on top of GNOME 3, and in planning new core applications, GNOME developers continue exactly as they began. They show no recognition that not all users think the way they do.
It's a persistence that's so unyielding and shows such little ability to learn that it borders on the perverse.
Day, who is a GNOME designer, makes the project's position very clear when he begins by saying
Gnome ...
I think, the Gnome project will only change its policies when major GNU/Linux distributions such as Debian, Fedora, openSuse etc. either skip the Gnome 3 desktop altogether or use a heavily modified version of it, as Linux Mint has done with its recent release. If this happens I do hope to see some heads roll. It just can't be that the entire project is brought down by the ignorant, pigheaded autism of a handful of self-appointed "designers".
Datamation ...
P.S.:
If you want to post a comment to Bruce Byfield's article, don't do it on the Datamation website, do it here. Datamation practically never let comments through. I have no idea whether this is a glitch in their code or if Datamation employ some Nazi who personally deletes 98% of the comments but I have never been able to post a single line on their pages. Most of their articles remain completely uncommented which is a shame because Bruce Byfield's articles are always well written and very interesting.
Datamation ...
P.P.S.:
I've just had another look at the Datamation website and, voila! ... all of a sudden there are more than 30 comments under Bruce Byfield's article, including my own (February 14 2012 13:32 PST). I wonder how that happened? Someone must have pushed a button, levered a lever, switched a switch ... anyways, I'm glad this works now and I hope it stays like this.
Hibernation is now in kernels no longer Gnome ?
Gnome tried to put everything on the desktop, including hibernation sleep and wake to resume. It never worked on desktop layer.
Now the power off hibernation to save battery life is in Linux kernels. You power on to resume your previous operation; when you stopped working for a while, it still saves the CRT display from burn out by constant images(flying windows or blank image), then it powers off.
Desktops can be disconnected by kernel advancement. Especially when desktops screw up apps collection by changing toolkits without keeping up with new kernel versions.
The eco system of Apple apps store and Chrome browser web store will displace desktop apps. Browsers(IE10 etc) are now designed without plug-ins, meaning webpages contain its own realtime operating system. Each packet is an operating system and application. Browser operating system is eliminating the middleman, the desktop app developers.