On Fri, 1 Feb 2013 21:05:09 -0500 Rahul Sundaram metherid@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
However, I've been told several times that the Gnome devs had warned people that they'd make no effort to avoid breaking extensions and hadn't heard otherwise.
I think an unfortunate reality of this list, is that it has many people who ascribe motivations to developers and repeat them to the point where others believe this to be a fact I wouldn't buy into these assertions without sufficient references to back them up if I were you.
Agreed. And at the end of the day, while most of us users are important to the OSS community, it is the developers who do the hard work. We may disagree with their philosophy and choices, but we should persuade them with reasoned arguments, not call them names just because they chose a particular path (not to mention that very often, people like me, do not bother to find the time to comment on beta-stages).
As an aside, I think that given the number of complaints about G3 (and I would not know, having used only XFCE, LXDE and fvwm), in my view, Fedora could consider moving the base distribution to something else? But i don't feel strongly about it, so I am fine with the current situation.
Ranjan