Developers responsibillity to Fedora Users

Ian Malone ibmalone at gmail.com
Tue Sep 27 13:00:51 UTC 2011


On 27 September 2011 10:59, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 09/26/2011 11:59 PM, Roger wrote:

>> Some say that the new Fedora GUI is unhelpful and possibly difficult to
>> use, preferring a simpler desktop.
>
> Ahh, this is all about GNOME 3.  It's very unfair to describe the
> actions/attitude of GNOME developers at that of all Fedora developers.

Yes, the KDE spin has been around for a long time and I see there are
now XFCE and LXDE spins.

>
> GNOME 3 is, to say the least, controversial. Ubuntu Unity hasn't had a
> uniformly great reception either.  GNOME 3 is still in its first
> release, and it'll be interesting to see how it develops.
>

3.2 is out "September/October 2011"
(http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.0/#rnlookingforward)
while the "new features and enhancements" listed don't resemble the
problems people have had we might hope some of the issues will have
been addressed.

-- 
imalone


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