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To be honest, it's a little bit embarassing to see such a... well, how would you call it? Flamewar, maybe. I've been active in a irrelevant project of GNOME (i
by cschwarm 16y ago
To be honest, it's a little bit embarassing to see such a... well, how would you call it? Flamewar, maybe.
I've been active in a irrelevant project of GNOME (ie. marketing), and my initial opininon still seems to hold: It's not about the desktop; it's about the apps. Neither GNOME's Shell nor Canonical's Unity solves any interesting problems for users.
And the lack of apps is basically just a matter of a missing business models for Open Source Desktop Applications.
To see them fighting over stuff that probably makes up -- at most -- 0.01 percent of the users' time, let's me wonder whether Open Source is ever going to be any major force on the desktop. I've once believed it would, but this belief dwindles.
- jdub 16y agoNot sure it's a flamewar (the flames are basically going on one direction!), but let's go with it... I'm participating in that flamewar, but agree with you 100%. That's part of where the conclusion of my series goes. :-)
- joe_the_user 16y agoUh, How is a debate a flame war in circumstances where name-call is not happening? What we have here is a heated debate. I might accept that Shuttleworth is totally wrong for the sake of argument. Even, I can't see ad hominem attacks, innuendo, comparisons to Hitler or any of what I'd see as the characteristics of the flame wars I know about. The idea that the app Launcher doesn't matter seems implausible to me - first impressions are very important for example. But maybe you're right and it doesn't matter. We still have to argue what is or isn't important. I don't see anything embarrassing about that.