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True, but the overall impression I got was that there is a design by a committee in the land of Gnome and MS is having hard time reconciling that with more stru
by abcd_f 16y ago
True, but the overall impression I got was that there is a design by a committee in the land of Gnome and MS is having hard time reconciling that with more structured development practices.
- krakensden 16y agoThere are 2-3 designers working on Gnome Shell, but describing it as 'design by committee' is neither fair nor accurate. It's also worth noting that Gnome and Canonical have completely different and separate collaboration systems, Gnome uses their mailing lists and git, Canonical uses Launchpad and bazaar. Between the technical barriers, development priorities, and needless missteps (Canonical requires copyright assignment for /all projects under their umbrella/), the two communities are pretty well alienated.
- clarkout 16y agoThat well may be, but it would be a real loss for the Linux desktop if the two groups can't figure out how to work together. Between Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE, I suspect GNOME provides the UI foundation for most Linux desktops currently in use. Ubuntu is the most prominent Linux distribution. It will be very unfortunate if they can't reconcile.