Why no icons? Was, Re: How to switch back to metacity

[Bill Davidsen]

Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 05/28/2011 05:31 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>
>> My biggest culture shock is losing all of my desktop icons.
>
> Now this is something I just can't understand.  I don't want to start an
> argument, but does anybody know why this decision was made?

Hubris? Developers infected with a "Windows Mentality" virus which causes them 
to feel that providing a consistent user interface the user can't change is 
morally superior to the "Have it your way" approach.

I am not too surprised about GNOME3, but I thought the Fedora decision making 
group were better people than that and would offer GNOME2 for some length of 
time rather than offer no option at all but retrain. That might make sense for 
developers who learn new stuff all the time,and hobby users who are just playing 
or learning, but for people using Fedora to do things important to them, there 
is a huge time cost and no gain.

Retraining users to use GNOME3 and finding new tools to do old tasks is as 
productive as a decision to change from left hand to right hand drive cars while 
learning a from an instruction manual written in a language they have to learn 
first. Learning new things is good, having to learn a new way to do the old 
things, not so much.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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