Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

[Aleksandar Kurtakov]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ian Malone" <ibmalone at gmail.com>
> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 9:51:41 AM
> Subject: Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop
> 
> On 11 February 2013 07:15, Casey Dahlin <cdahlin at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 11:34:34AM +0000, Ian Malone wrote:
> >> Gnome 2 slowly returned to the old behaviour in many ways. Gnome 3
> >> is
> >> starting to do this.
> >>
> >
> > As someone who, I presume, does not like Gnome 3, and as someone
> > who, I will
> > wildly guess, shares the notion that GNOME devs are doing whatever
> > they want
> > and not listening to your use cases...
> >
> > ...are you certain...
> >
> > ...absolutely certain...
> >
> > ...that you'd like to be on record setting the precedent that GNOME
> > 3 is
> > admitting failure by compromising to your standards?
> >
> 
> On record? Is there going to be a trial?
> What frustrates me is it's such an uphill battle.
> Step 1: Everything changes.
> Step 2: Users protest, some leave.
> Step 3: Supporters respond there's nothing wrong and essentially
> everyone who doesn't like it is too stupid or lazy.
> Step 4: Users carry on complaining.
> Step 5: Some features are gradually re-added, without ever
> acknowledging there was a problem in the first place.
> Step 6: Minor release? Go to step 4.
> Step 7: Major release? Go to step 5.

Hmm, you seem to forgot that there is also alternative:
Step 2: New users try it, like it, stay with it.

P.S. As everything is subjective I have to assure you that I'm one of these - former KDE, now Gnome 3 user.

Alexander Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse team

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