I think the point is that it takes many years to build traction. We should consider we
have established players in desktop and a trend towards Android, iOS, MeeGo etc. powered
devices in the consumer space over a pure play Linux distro. We would have been better
served in the traditional distro space in building on the traction we had with GNOME 2.
After all, it finally was offering a fairly compelling alternative. My blog has more
personal opinion on consumer behavior and desktop adoption - my belief is innovation
should happen in the new platform space, not on traditional desktops. Throwing away 30
years of tradition is not actually what mainstream computing users want.
Sorry for top post.
Jon.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Williamson [awilliam(a)redhat.com]
Received: Saturday, 23 Apr 2011, 10:51
To: For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases [test(a)lists.fedoraproject.org]
Subject: Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...
On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 01:56 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
While some interesting things have come out of the big changes in
both
GNOME and KDE over the years, when the big changes land, they tend to
frustrate existing users. IMHO this is a big thing that has killed the
perpetual "year of the Linux desktop" hopes.
GNOME 2.0 came out in 2002, so we had that interface for nine years.
It's not like no-one gave it a chance.
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