The Linus view of GNOME 3.2

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 08:55 +1030, Tim wrote:

> > Now I don't know how things are progressing in your neck of the woods in
> > Australia but in America, the various tablets are jumping off the
> > shelves like hotcakes. Coming on the heels of the successes of the
> > netbooks indicates that the public wants extremely portable, relatively
> > inexpensive computing devices even if it only does e-mail/web browsing
> > and it's not just Gnome who have picked up on the fact that the future
> > of computing devices is up for grabs. One only need look at the Windows
> > 8 preview and see their Windows Phone 'tiles' interface as the primary
> > UI/launcher to see that they are not alone with a redesign of their UI
> > with an eye to all possible form factors.
> 
> The trouble is that they (various "theys"), don't seem to be designing
> UIs to fit different form factors.  They're trying to fit one UI onto
> all the devices.
> 
> Yes, such gadgets are becoming popular, here.  But they're still a
> specialist device, and hardly suitable replacements for a full computer.
----
the various devices you are describing 'they' are designing to are
indeed computers. Smaller form factors are indeed suitable replacements
for a full computer - but perhaps not for all purposes but maybe that's
a function of what's possibly with today's technology.

That doesn't preclude anyone from choosing to use the DE that suits
their needs and if it isn't Gnome, there are other choices.

Craig


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