Gnome 3 Discussions

[Chris O'Connell]

These are great points.  The apparent goal behind Gnome3 is to attract NEW
users, not to address the needs and wants of the existing user base.

I'm always a huge fan of soliciting ideas and feedback from users, but I
think this philosophy is lost on many developers and the management that
guides them.

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Ben Eisenbraun <bene-Gk2boCrsRs1AfugRpC6u6w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

>
> I think what was most interesting to me about the direction GNOME 3 took is
> that someone still believes in the possibility of mainstream use of Linux
> on the desktop!
>
> The CEO of Red Hat basically said that the "linux desktop" market was not a
> goal for them, and yet we had two Red Hat employees talking about how they
> were "streamlining" the GNOME 3 interface for the "casual user".
>
> In Owen's defense, he specifically said at one point that the audience in
> the room was not the target for the GNOME 3 redesign.  They must have known
> they were going to anger the nerds...  :-)
>
> -ben
>
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