Am 24.09.2011 13:46, schrieb Craig White:
Whether people are programmers or not is decidedly not the point here. The GNOME developers have made a decision to revamp the UI to account for the fact that computers are extending beyond the model borne out of Xerox PARC... a keyboard, screen and mouse. They are attempting to satisfy display scenarios that might be as small as a telephone to very large and often multiple large displays. They are attempting to satisfy the fact that keyboards and mice might be eschewed in favor of touch input and gestures.
peopole who WORK with their computer will never use touch input in their normal workflow - not now, not tomorrow and not in ten years!
so the primary user-interfaces should not be designed for toys like iPhone / iPad - these are nice things when you do not have a real computer near you but will never replace a workstation
yes, the count of peopole who is satisified enough with a smartphone is growing becuase they never REALLY used a computer, but stop deisgn interfaces primary for these people and waste a lot of space with buttons (this gnome2 did long before gnome3)
stop to destroy the worklflow of peopole who will really work with their computers and using a workstation now and for the next 30 years!