On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 08:17:57AM -0600, Ted Pomeroy wrote: > Dear Gnome, I have seen the fork request by Linus Torvalds and I > agree. I am a happy user of Gnome 2.30.2 and wonder why the
Linus did not make any fork request. He only indicated he was unhappy. Some blogs tried to get a lot of hits by misrepresenting this as a call for fork', but that is not the case. > "innovation" is driving Gnome away from the principles of user ease > and user choice. For instance, I change the start up music, because I > can, I keep my desktop neat, because I can and use the drop-down menus > because they are clear and complete (and I can modify them to hide > unwanted application links). Note, I also tend to use older hardware > because I am on a budget and I love to tell people, "I take a 3-10 > year old computer that MS Windows cannot run on and make it a > delightful and FULL functioning tool." 3-5 year old hardware should work fine, minor driver issues. Driver issues should be fixed by the kernel, which is maintained by various people (not just Linus). Anything older than 5 years I'd recommend staying with an older GNOME version. Anyway, I don't see anything concrete in here. If you want to fork GNOME, feel free. The code is hosted on git.gnome.org. Practically, there is a GNOME fallback mode which gives you a GNOME panel and various applets are back in 3.2. -- Regards, Olav _______________________________________________ usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
