[Discuss] Gnome Shell

[John Abreau]

The fact that this type of failure is "business as usual" doesn't make it
any less of a failure. The "business as usual" aspect just makes it worse.



On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Richard Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/28/2012 3:31 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>>
>> The 3 major issues I see with the Gnome team is:
>> 1. The failed to migrate features from Gnome 2 making Gnome 3 look
>> radically different.
>
>
> I don't count this a failure so much as it's business as usual for the Gnome
> leadership.  To wit, they did the EXACT SAME THING with the Gnome 1 to Gnome
> 2 lack-of-transition.
>
>
>> 2. They made their API a moving target, alienating developers.
>
>
> Second verse, same as the first.
>
>
>> 3. They are introspective and are not connected to the user base.
>
>
> Third verse... I think you know the drill by now.
>
> --
> Rich P.
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