Hi Gendre, On Di, 04.01.2011 18:47, Gendre Sebastien wrote:
>Le mardi 04 janvier 2011 à 16:27 +0100, Holger Berndt a écrit : >> As it puts your posts into context, you could have mentioned that >> you're actually the maintainer of Sawfish. In all of your posts in >> this >> thread, I don't hear a concerned user, but an annoyed WM developer, >> angry that the GNOME Shell doesn't work with his "baby". >> >> That also explains why your perception of the amount of users who want >> to replace their WM differs from others. I'm absolutely sure that you, >> as Sawfish maintainer, know a lot of users of Sawfish and other 3rd >> party WMs. I doubt that you're representative for the general GNOME >> user base, though. >> >> Non-IT users don't know what a WM is. They don't want to know, and if >> they need to know what it is and how to replace it, something is >> broken in the first place, and work should be spent on fixing >> the problems instead of abstracting them. > >Please, if you have no good arguments, don't try to marginalize and make >personal atttak on people with whom you are desagree. I'm not personally attacking people with whom I disagree. I just described where the different perception of how many users want to replace their WM might come from. Which is quite a central point when discussing whether it's hugely important to be WM agnostic, or not. Holger _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list