GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 00:30 +0900, 夜神 岩男 wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 10:04 -0400, Bernd Stramm wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:33:18 +0900
> > 夜神 岩男 <supergiantpotato at yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > Considering the frequent calls of "Gnome 3 has failed at its task" or
> > > the "GUI has failed if the user must ____" makes me wonder: Where is
> > > the task definition or specification against which the implementation
> > > has failed?
> > > 
> > > "Doesn't live up to my expectation" is very different from "Doesn't
> > > comply with spec" and both are different from "Is a bad design".
> > 
> > How about a spec then of what Gnome3 was trying to achiece, and how
> > about those who like it telling us how Gnome3 achieved those things?
> 
> And this is precisely my point. At the moment criticism and defense both
> seem a bit aimless because we aren't seeing any references to the
> interface research someone said happened, interface specifications or
> even a concept discussion/summary about what gnome-shell was supposed to
> achieve. It was a serious undertaking, so I'm certain they had goals
> which were at least clear to someone at some point.

https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/

and all the links listed at the end of that page.
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