Though it seems hopeless to change the decision, I find some tendency annoying.
1. I have a machine that works well. If you seriously believe they will work for most machines. Let me do a serious statistics to prove or disprove your claim. But my intuition is that it is generally harder to properly utilize graphic hardware on Linux than that of some years ago (I start messing with Linux since old Red Hat Linux 8.0). For example, the annoying switchable graphics. On the other hand, desktop environments are more dependent on OpenGL. So it's harder from both sides, so sad. 2. Folks can use LLVMpipe. It slow down the machine anyway, sometimes you can really measure it. What about laptop's battery life? An interesting observation is that Linux newbies sometimes try hard to increse battery life on Linux while Linux veteran sometimes just accept the fact running Linux means shorter battery life. 3. You can still use GNOME 2. If the user don't care about recent graphical apps, it's fine. Though Ubuntu 10.04 is going to EOL next year, we still have CentOS. If you do care, then I'd say it's a lot easier installing GIMP 2.8, Lib 3.6, ... on Redmond XP (EOL 2014) than remaining old distribution releases featuring GNOME 2. As Fedora already trying to package MATE, Debian/Ubuntu guys may follow up the track. Though I'm not sure will Fedora 18 ever release. 4. It's free software. You can contribute. I believe very very few people can ever become a develop and only few of them will spend time writing patch, try contacting developer, ... I think the most reasonable contribution a general user can make is that she can point out problems she met in various channels. Ever since the introduction of GNOME 3, I guess most common responses users get are "We know better." I don't want comment particular cases but I wonder have you ever tried informing users? Probably you made some decisions on a public IRC / mailing list so you think it is enough? On bugzilla, bugs just pile up. That's users' contribution also. But I haven't seen any major attempt to clean these bugs up and solving real problems. What's interesting about a new release that ports to Python 3 and drops Fallback mode? _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list