LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

[JB]

Joe Zeff <joe <at> zeff.us> writes:

> ... 
> How about the way that you can only trigger a specific and needed action 
> (I don't remember which, as I don't use Gnome 3.) by going to the top 
> left corner of the screen and this can only be changed by installing a 
> third-party extension that lets you use the top right corner instead. 
> It was recently revealed here that this was done because the Gnome dev 
> who did it is left handed.  From what I can tell, the other devs either 
> let him do it whatever way he wanted without comment or if they did 
> comment, he ignored them.  This type of "development" leads to a 
> confusing mishmash of inconsistencies, which is one of the things that 
> drove me away.  I may be wrong, but I've also gotten the impression that 
> in many cases, a small group of devs forced the rest of them to accept 
> something that most of them didn't like simply by being intransigent 
> until everybody else gave up and let them have their way.  If not, the 
> results certainly look like that to me.

There is a similar case with systemd project.
There is a meister there as well who tells people "If you disagree with
Lennart then you must hate handicapped people!".
For reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ERAXJj142o

This is their idea of an interaction between devs and users ...

JB