On 04/26/2011 05:23 PM, Gerald Henriksen wrote:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 03:43:55 +0000 (UTC), you wrote:
> Why did Fedora decide to abandon Gnome 2, instead of offering Gnome 3 as
> an experimental college-level project via a spin (as one poster here already
> asked), representing a work-in-progress where geeks still learn their Computer
> Science principles and skills ?
As much as I dislike Gnome 3 and am considering my alternatives, it is
very unfair to dump on Fedora for the problems with Gnome 3.
Why? I think it's
appropriate to dump Fedora because of this, because
Fedora has made Gnome 3 it's default desktop and because Fedora is
actively promoting it.
> Do you know that even on Gnome 3 Shell devs (and users) list
people admit that
> they possibly boxed themselves into a corner and now are not willing or able
> to reverse the course where things went wrong ?
>
> It is a Fedora problem, and it will be a Red Hat problem in due time !
Red Hat is fortunate that they can wait and see, and if necessary
evaluate the cost/benefit and if necessary allocate resources to the
issue.
Well, as others already said, the current Fedora 15 desktop is unusable
to many people. "Kool smartphone kiz" and newcomers may like it, as I
feel it's unusable for "business class use-cases" due to its GUI-design.
Fedora, as a volunteeer effort, cannot.
It's worse. I fear
Fedora will loose contributors, because Fedora is not
shipping the DE these users want.