Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

[Reindl Harald]

Am 12.02.2013 15:47, schrieb Olav Vitters:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:37:31AM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> Am 11.02.2013 11:31, schrieb Olav Vitters:
>>> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 07:59:22PM +0000, Ian Malone wrote:
>>>> In the end, more than any usability quibbles, the best reason to give
>>>> up on a project is when it refuses to listen to its end users.
>>>
>>> The GNOME release notes over various cycles have listed loads of changes
>>> which have been made based on the things that have been learned. This
>>> happened during 2.x as well as 3.x.
>>>
>>> Although you do not explicitly state it, it seems you were talking about
>>> GNOME. Vincent Untz phrased it much better than I ever could, but he
>>> basically pointed at the "Power Off". You can also read the release
>>> notes for loads of other changes
>>
>> this is all fine
>>
>> BUT why are things completly re-written and in a pre-alpha state
>> released replacing and destroying the users workload and after
>> that it takes years to fix all teh issues in the one or another way?
> 
> I have a totally different view.
> 
> Could you show me the bugreport about where GNOME destroyed something on
> a users machine?
> 
> GNOME 3 was delayed by 2 cycles. Before that we made loads of releases
> available for testing. The 3.0 was really stable

what are you not understanding in "destroy users workload"?
it dies not help if software runs stable if it forces the
user to completly re-learn how he used to do things

workload = people are runnign their PC for working with it and
doing things not only play around with the OS itself


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