>But Gnome has been burning user and developer trust for more than a decade People complained in the exact same way when GTK2 and GNOME 2 were released. There

>But Gnome has been burning user and developer trust for more than a decade People complained in the exact same way when GTK2 and GNOME 2 were released. There really isn't anything different this time around as to how they approach changes and incremental improvements. It's the same minority of loud complainers blaming GNOME for everything when they could just use something else. It's not like there's a lack of forks and alternatives. And hey, a certain percentage of KDE users complain and fork stuff whenever a new version of KDE comes out too. That's just what happens. As with anything open source, you get what you put in: if you don't contribute anything upstream, and you're not willing to maintain a fork, and you don't want to compromise, and you expect someone else to always "manage" everything to your liking all the time, then you're setting yourself up for disappointment.