On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 09:31 +1100, Bojan Smojver wrote:
On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 14:33 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
You won't be able to convince Gnome3 zealots.
That's a bit harsh, I think. They are just very impressionable folk. :-)
Believe me, a lot of people tried.
I would like to believe that a rational argument eventually prevails.
This assumes that the choice of desktop is a purely rational one. It is not. People are different. Gnome 3 crowd implemented Gnome 3 Shell to *their* own liking. It makes sense to *them*.
Apparently they did not consider that a large group of users was quite happy with Gnome 2 desktop and did not need any revolutionary reshuffling in that area.
They don't listen to our arguments. It's like talking to a wall. I only hear endless "try it for a week, you'll like it" and "its the progress, stupid". I think such attitude towards your user base is arrogant and ultimately self-harming: users *will* change to alternatives with less arrogant developer team. And I will not hesitate to recommend that route to anyone who is pissed off by Gnome 3 Shell disaster of the UI design.
I have a lot years invested in Gnome, helped fix many bugs by diligently reporting problems, chasing traces etc. Don't want to throw all that away just because one aspect of one program is not done right.
Good luck then.