>> I cannot believe I am reading this on GNOME central mail list! > > [ snip ] > > I cannot believe this topic keeps coming up again and again :-( > > "Linux is not about choice": > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-January/msg00861.html
Guys, I can't believe I'm readeing this again. If linux/OSS wasn't about choice, you wouldn't be here at a first place. I, as a user who never used necrosoft/novelll from my very long 20 years of computer experience just like to tell you. That the freedom of movement between all of opensource OS'es was the crucial factor that it was: Chosen for use in enterprise environment, where you your data worth money and you would like to preserve it between OS migration Chosen for use in global scale research projects, simply because no commercial solution would ever provide that level of standartisation that OSS have Chosen as a base level for most of advanced embedded electronics, for a simple fact that it has standards and no competing product is anything more that code blobs without documentation Now, tell me what you and Mr. Olav are trying to infer with this discussion? And lets come back to constructive discussion. If you suggest to deprecate old gnome 2 experience, you should provide something compatible, similiar or better. And what you have: Shell is not better, it's a clearly a degradation of user experience. It was targeted on downsized desktops, but doesn't fit here and we are simply left running desktop sized panel with scaled proportionately giantic icons. Shell simply doesn't have similiar user experience. At current stage it's nothing more than set of launcher icons on fixed panel that can't be even moved around. Imagine what a pain whould it be to work wiht it on 21:9 screen or xinerama? Besides this it simply doesn't work in xinerama configuration yet (Mutter hangs). Shell is simply not working as advertised yet (black windows bug, slow) Shell development is driven by a closed club of developers that has incepted the idea without taking anybodys opinion into consideration. It's clearly lacks ergonomics, design is poor, doesn't comfort user at all. Please fix it, and then come with your idea after it. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list