On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 20:35:56 +0100 "Nicolas Mailhot" nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net wrote:
Le Ven 8 février 2013 13:22, Olav Vitters a écrit :
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 10:34:58AM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote:
I am providing a datapoint that directly contradicts your original statement, namely that there is a "completely different target audience" for GNOME 2 vs GNOME 3.
I am that datapoint.
As are various others during FOSDEM (Vincent Untz asked people to raise their hands). No idea how representative that it.
The FOSDEM poll was stacked — no one really wanted to hurt Vincent Untz too much given his obvious efforts to be nice, there was this knot of GNOME people bunched together that were a tad intimidating, and people do not go to FOSDEM to fight. What is telling however is the complete refusal of the audience to put systemd and Gnome 3 in the same bucket. Lennart's efforts to explain his project, understand sysadmin needs, provide a smooth transition and keep current usages working clearly paid off there.
So don't overplay the GNOME 3 FOSDEM session, it was an awkward moment for everyone involved (and certainly not representative of the positive energy that permeated other presentations).
To be honest, I don't think any poll will ever suffice for this topic. Nor do I think a poll is what's needed.
It should simply be easier to switch to a desktop that Works For You, especially after installation, and even before if possible. That way we can keep the anti-GNOME-3 people happy as well.
In the end I guess we can't get rid of the fanatical "GNOME 3 is for tablets only" meme (and others like it that I personally don't agree with), but hey, I don't mind as long as I can ignore those.
But I will keep objecting to the single-sided argument that there is no "GNOME 2 user" that likes GNOME 3. I fully support those who have tried and rejected the new stuff -- as long as they don't impose their opinion on me :-)
--Stijn