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These are great points. The apparent goal behind Gnome3 is to attract NEW users, not to address the needs and wants of the existing user base. I'm always a huge fan of soliciting ideas and feedback from users, but I think this philosophy is lost on many developers and the management that guides them. On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Ben Eisenbraun <bene-Gk2boCrsRs1AfugRpC6u6w at public.gmane.org> wrote: > > I think what was most interesting to me about the direction GNOME 3 took is > that someone still believes in the possibility of mainstream use of Linux > on the desktop! > > The CEO of Red Hat basically said that the "linux desktop" market was not a > goal for them, and yet we had two Red Hat employees talking about how they > were "streamlining" the GNOME 3 interface for the "casual user". > > In Owen's defense, he specifically said at one point that the audience in > the room was not the target for the GNOME 3 redesign. They must have known > they were going to anger the nerds... :-) > > -ben > > -- > if you plan for a year, sow a seed. if you plan for a decade, plant a > tree. if you plan for a century, educate the people. <chuang tzu> > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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