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This is not the first time gnome developers are doing this. The project is in a state where they just don't listen to the community and keep on doing really bad

This is not the first time gnome developers are doing this. The project is in a state where they just don't listen to the community and keep on doing really bad things. Its not surprising that the whole gnome 3 is a huge failure. Here is an example. Quite some time back they removed the tree view[1] and nautilus extra panes[2]. Reason? it is not good on touch screens! So what about all the developers on normal laptops? I dont see a good future for the gnome project with all this rude behaviour. PS: I wrote a longer blog about this sometime back. http://jaseemabid.github.io/07-11-2012/thoughts-on-gnome-3.html http://jaseemabid.github.io/07-11-2012/thoughts-on-gnome-3.h... 1. https://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/commit/?id=ef467c8775392d0f0feb0e38f7a80f2d41719d84 https://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/commit/?id=ef467c87753... 2. https://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/commit/?id=b8d5b4a7bcf47ed34a6343c95bcc3b079255c0a0 https://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/commit/?id=b8d5b4a7bcf...

vidarh 13y ago
Personally what annoyed me was the removal of spatial features in Nautilus. Fair enough, they were not that much used, but the amount of code needed was minimal and a similar amount of code required to strip it out could also easily have made it non-invasive. As it is, I use Nautilus rarely as most Linux file managers are still primitive compared to Amiga filemanagers ca. 1990, and Nautilus is far from the top of the bunch of Linux file managers, and so I resort to the shell most of the time, but to me that took away the one redeeming feature Nautilus had. Gnome developers seems to have been on a decade long ego-trip. Of course that's their right - it's their project, but they shouldn't be surprised that their decisions gets constantly questioned and criticised by people who started using Gnome based on totally different assumptions of where they'd be going. These days, gnome-terminal is pretty much the only Gnome app I regularly use left, and with apps like Terminology, and Ubuntu replacing more and more with their own stuff, there might soon not be much Gnome left for me (and at least I know Terminology won't strip the eye candy, coming from the Enlightenment rew).

vidarh 13y ago

Personally what annoyed me was the removal of spatial features in Nautilus. Fair enough, they were not that much used, but the amount of code needed was minimal and a similar amount of code required to strip it out could also easily have made it non-invasive. As it is, I use Nautilus rarely as most Linux file managers are still primitive compared to Amiga filemanagers ca. 1990, and Nautilus is far from the top of the bunch of Linux file managers, and so I resort to the shell most of the time, but to me that took away the one redeeming feature Nautilus had. Gnome developers seems to have been on a decade long ego-trip. Of course that's their right - it's their project, but they shouldn't be surprised that their decisions gets constantly questioned and criticised by people who started using Gnome based on totally different assumptions of where they'd be going. These days, gnome-terminal is pretty much the only Gnome app I regularly use left, and with apps like Terminology, and Ubuntu replacing more and more with their own stuff, there might soon not be much Gnome left for me (and at least I know Terminology won't strip the eye candy, coming from the Enlightenment rew).