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This is exactly the kind of tone deaf developer suck-up attitude the article complains about. It doesn't really matter what you or I or person X thinks, the fac

This is exactly the kind of tone deaf developer suck-up attitude the article complains about. It doesn't really matter what you or I or person X thinks, the fact is that many many many user surveys have been taken and the majority despise Gnome 3. The Gnome developers have taken the exact same stance you do, that people are just not smart enough and have ulterior motives for hating Gnome 3. The only thing it's gotten them is being pulled from default on several distros and rapidly plummeting market share. But good for them, it's easier to be "brilliant" and "forward thinking" with zero users to support.

darklajid 13y ago
I stated my opinion elsewhere on this thread: Use what works for you. That said, I do wonder how you'd like to back up your claims here? I mean - if you'd just say "Bah! Gnome 3 is a step in the wrong direction and the Gnome developers are clueless. I'm moving on" that'd be fine and cool - I guess everyone could understand reasons to do that, without neccessarily agreeing. But you - state that a 'majority' hates Gnome 3. What? Really? A 'majority' of .. which representative group? - state that Gnome developers consider their users as dumb (I .. hope I didn't misrepresent you here) That's impossible to back, insulting and quite frankly it's hard to assign a single motive to the 'Gnome developers' - argue that they lost market share for some reason Ignoring whether you're right or not (I .. tend to disagree): Why would that be important? Why do you consider 'rule the DE market' / 'be a leader in the DE market' (what market??) a worthwhile goal of the Gnome project? In my opinion they should provide one of a number of consistent desktop environments..
varjag 13y ago
This reminds me when some version of Nautilus (around 2003?) adopted that ridiculous open each folder in new window thing without an option to disable it. Instead of listening to outcry of very much every single user out there, the person in charge insisted that his vision was the "correct" way of using desktop metaphor, and suggested everyone to get over it.

darklajid 13y ago

I stated my opinion elsewhere on this thread: Use what works for you. That said, I do wonder how you'd like to back up your claims here? I mean - if you'd just say "Bah! Gnome 3 is a step in the wrong direction and the Gnome developers are clueless. I'm moving on" that'd be fine and cool - I guess everyone could understand reasons to do that, without neccessarily agreeing. But you - state that a 'majority' hates Gnome 3. What? Really? A 'majority' of .. which representative group? - state that Gnome developers consider their users as dumb (I .. hope I didn't misrepresent you here) That's impossible to back, insulting and quite frankly it's hard to assign a single motive to the 'Gnome developers' - argue that they lost market share for some reason Ignoring whether you're right or not (I .. tend to disagree): Why would that be important? Why do you consider 'rule the DE market' / 'be a leader in the DE market' (what market??) a worthwhile goal of the Gnome project? In my opinion they should provide one of a number of consistent desktop environments..

varjag 13y ago

This reminds me when some version of Nautilus (around 2003?) adopted that ridiculous open each folder in new window thing without an option to disable it. Instead of listening to outcry of very much every single user out there, the person in charge insisted that his vision was the "correct" way of using desktop metaphor, and suggested everyone to get over it.