Developers responsibillity to Fedora Users

Terry Barnaby terry1 at beam.ltd.uk
Tue Sep 27 21:30:34 UTC 2011


On 09/27/2011 02:00 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
> On 27 September 2011 10:59, Andrew Haley<aph at redhat.com>  wrote:
>> On 09/26/2011 11:59 PM, Roger wrote:
>
>>> Some say that the new Fedora GUI is unhelpful and possibly difficult to
>>> use, preferring a simpler desktop.
>>
>> Ahh, this is all about GNOME 3.  It's very unfair to describe the
>> actions/attitude of GNOME developers at that of all Fedora developers.
>
> Yes, the KDE spin has been around for a long time and I see there are
> now XFCE and LXDE spins.
>
>>
>> GNOME 3 is, to say the least, controversial. Ubuntu Unity hasn't had a
>> uniformly great reception either.  GNOME 3 is still in its first
>> release, and it'll be interesting to see how it develops.
>>
>
> 3.2 is out "September/October 2011"
> (http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.0/#rnlookingforward)
> while the "new features and enhancements" listed don't resemble the
> problems people have had we might hope some of the issues will have
> been addressed.
>
I don't use Gnome myself, mainly KDE.
But its seems like a lot of people would like Gnome2 back. Why doesn't someone,
who has a problem with it just rebuild and release Gnome2 for F15 (with a 
different package name) ?



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