On 09/26/2011 11:59 PM, Roger wrote:
On 26/09/11 19:38, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 09/22/2011 02:15 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> Alan Cox is exactly right that the users of Fedora products get them
>> free and one can make a strong case that therefore Fedora developers
>> have no responsibility to listen to user's complaints.
>>
>> However, the Fedora users provide a service to the ReHat company of
>> identifying bugs that otherwise would show up to annoy the paying users
>> of RedHat Enterprise .
>>
>> This is probably a weak argument to support the developers of Fedora
>> software listening to its users but what is clear is the current
>> situation leaves a bad taste in the mouths of the current Fedora
>> user-base. Clearly developers can ignore our complaints, but I have no
>> evidence that the paying Enterprise customers will be more tolerant of
>> the strange direction that RedHat is taking.
> This is all too vague for me to understand. What are you talking about?
>
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.
This resulted in a discussion touching on the developers
responsibility
to users, if any.
Ubuntu and Fedora 14 offers the choice of new or classic.
Not to mention KDE and XFCE.
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.
Andrew.