"It's time for you to leave."
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Sat Dec 31 01:59:18 UTC 2011
On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 16:21 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 12/30/2011 04:02 PM, Craig White wrote:
> > I'm equally dismayed by your incessant whining about Gnome3 which I see
> > as much the same thing.
>
> I'm sorry that you feel that way, Craig. Please note, however, that I
> always make it very clear that these are the reasons that I personally
> don't use it and that I'm not suggesting that anybody else migrate away
> from it unless they too don't like it. And, I'd like to add that most
> of what I don't like is the result of design decisions that don't make
> the slightest bit of sense to me and that nobody on this list has tried
> to justify. Not that you have to of course, but it does strengthen my
> belief that the Gnome devs are working in an ivory tower, neither
> getting feedback from nor giving explanations to mere users. As long as
> what they wanted to give us was something I found easy to work with, it
> didn't matter much, but now, it's just one more reason to leave and
> never look back. And, you'll note, when there's a post asking how to
> get Gnome 3 to do something, I don't respond with a smart ass post
> telling them to try XFCE, KDE, LXDE or something else, because that
> wouldn't be answering their question.
----
I suppose we weren't supposed to notice more whining when it is
sandwiched between justification for the whining and
self-congratulations on your own perceived good behavior?
Craig
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