Paradigm shift going from Gnome2 to Gnome3

[Darryl L. Pierce]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 02:16:51PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 22.06.2011 14:09, schrieb Darryl L. Pierce:
> > But does Fedora 15 "require high end hardware"? No, it doesn't. You can
> > run other desktops, such as XFCE (which you mention as well), and still
> > run all of the same apps.
> 
> to believe you can force users permanently switch their Desktop Environment
> without lose them for the whole platform is very naive!

I never said that we wouldn't lose users over the switch. You'll
_ALWAYS_ have people who will jump ship if you rock the boat even a
little.

What I said is that Fedora 15 does not LOCK THEM OUT of using Fedora.
They can 1) use their old video hardware with Gnome 3 (and let it fall
back to working like Gnome 2), they can 2) use a similar desktop (Xfce)
and still use all of the same apps or 3) they can upgrade their video
hardware to something minimally more recent than what they have (since
Gnome 3 will work with hardware produced within the last 4 years or so).

<snip>

> and yes i am one of the geeks playing often with their system, but on invasive changes
> even for me is the fun really fast over!

For someone that conservative about their desktop I don't image they
would be taking on an upgrade like this since it _does_ change some
fundamentals.

It's equally (or even moreso) unreasonable to expect everybody to be
held back on innovation by those few who can't (or won't) upgrade.

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Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc.
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