On 09/27/2011 12:01 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On 09/27/2011 11:59 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 09/26/2011 11:59 PM, Roger wrote:
>> On 26/09/11 19:38, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>> On 09/22/2011 02:15 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>>> Alan Cox is exactly right that the users of Fedora products get them
>>>> free and one can make a strong case that therefore Fedora developers
>>>> have no responsibility to listen to user's complaints.
>>>>
>>>> However, the Fedora users provide a service to the ReHat company of
>>>> identifying bugs that otherwise would show up to annoy the paying users
>>>> of RedHat Enterprise .
>>>>
>>>> This is probably a weak argument to support the developers of Fedora
>>>> software listening to its users but what is clear is the current
>>>> situation leaves a bad taste in the mouths of the current Fedora
>>>> user-base. Clearly developers can ignore our complaints, but I have no
>>>> evidence that the paying Enterprise customers will be more tolerant of
>>>> the strange direction that RedHat is taking.
>>> This is all too vague for me to understand. What are you talking about?
>>>
>> 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.
As long as Fedora ship a "first release", as you prefer to call it, as
"default DE", people will identify and set equal "Fedora" with
"Gnome3".
They're wrong. A DE is just a thin skin over an OS, as we all know.
I'm a developer of Fedora software, and the DE has nothing to do with
me. No matter how much I listen to people's complaints about GNOME,
nothing is going to happen. All I can do is point out to people that
XFCE might be more to their taste.
I find this very relatable and therefore find "throwing Fedora
and
Gnome3 into one big bowl" to be not without justification.
It is entirely without justification.
This new new-user-base likely is (mostly) satisfied, but many of
these
distros' "old long term supporters and users" simply feel their so far
choosen distro's DE doesn't suite their needs anymore.
This distro has more than one DE.
Andrew.