Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

[Jonathan Masters]

Ford was the tablet to the day's traditional desktop (not sure what anology to use with Diesel). If the traditional horse is to die, let it die on its own, and let tablet interfaces replace it. Consumers will happily move over at their own pace.

I am well aware of the history of the automobile. The first cross country US roadtrip from San Francisco to New York relied on trains to haul tires, and blacksmiths to repair the vehicle. Let's use the traditional desktop to build the new one, but just like with cars, they did not replace horses overnight.

As I said in my blog, at a technology transition you get free reign. But just try moving the location of the gas and break pedals in a traditional car. Hybrids and Electrics are the chance to fix things again - in the next wave.

Jon.

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From: drago01 [drago01 at gmail.com]
Received: Monday, 25 Apr 2011, 12:19
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Subject: Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...


On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Jonathan Masters <jcm at redhat.com> wrote:
> I think the point is that it takes many years to build traction. We should consider we have established players in desktop and a trend towards Android, iOS, MeeGo etc. powered devices in the consumer space over a pure play Linux distro. We would have been better served in the traditional distro space in building on the traction we had with GNOME 2. After all, it finally was offering a fairly compelling alternative. My blog has more personal opinion on consumer behavior and desktop adoption - my belief is innovation should happen in the new platform space, not on traditional desktops. Throwing away 30 years of tradition is not actually what mainstream computing users want.

"If I'd asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster
horse.? ? Henry Ford

Horses even had a *much* longer tradition then the windows 95 style desktop ;)
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