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

Bernd Stramm bernd.stramm at gmail.com
Sat Jun 18 00:18:00 UTC 2011


On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:46:46 -0300
Evandro Giovanini <efgiovanini at gmail.com> wrote:

> Em Sex, 2011-06-17 às 15:21 -0400, Bernd Stramm escreveu:
> > On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:47:38 -0400
> > Casey Dahlin <cdahlin at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 02:32:12PM -0400, Bernd Stramm wrote:
> > > > So Gnome Shell is not for a good many of the people who had been
> > > > using Gnome before that.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > YES! I don't know why more people don't realize this: GNOME 2 was
> > > a mediocre interface for a lot of people. It COULD NOT be a good
> > > interface for the same number of people, and there is NOTHING
> > > wrong with them pruning their userbase to a subset which they can
> > > adequately serve.
> > > 
> > > > It is not good to counter a technical point with a personal
> > > > attack, which is what you did.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > No I didn't.
> > 
> > Sure looked like you did. Perhaps it not done with malice, let's go
> > with that version.
> > 
> 
> I think you must be confused. The only personal attack post in this
> thread:
> "One could do that, but that would be an idiotic thing to do. So one
> doesn't."
> was posted by yourself.

My objection was just to this line:

> One could rephrase your complaint as "I don't want to focus on my> 
current task." 

which in my view questions my work ethic.  I find that to be
derogatory, and I actually do think it is a stupid statement. Perhaps
"idiotic" is a bit harsh.

-- 
Bernd Stramm
bernd.stramm at gmail.com



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