Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

[Ian Pilcher]

On 04/25/2011 09:36 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> (drifting waaaaay off-topic for test@, at this point...)

Maybe we need fedora-gnome3 at redhat.com?

> It was stated that GNOME upstream, to use the Ford analogy, have eliminated
> the panel/menu/desktop-icon desktop metaphor from existence in Fedora 'by
> fiat'. I find that a pretty silly argument given the choices that are
> available.

Possibly a bad choice of terminology, but I stand by the specific point
I was making that Henry Ford did not make the decision to eliminate
horse-powered transport; he provided an alternative that the people/
market/whatever ultimately found to be superior.

In the case of GNOME, the developers of that project have made a
decision that effectively removes the GNOME 2 interface as an option for
many users -- the vast majority of whom do not have the time and/or
skills to build and maintain a desktop environment.  We will never know
which interface would have been more successful in the FLOSS desktop
environment "market".  That's unfortunate, but it's also probably
inevitable in a world of limited resources.

The two situations are simply not the same,  and that's the only point I
was trying to make.

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Ian Pilcher                                         arequipeno at gmail.com
"If you're going to shift my paradigm ... at least buy me dinner first."
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