Hello,
I've been having a rough time locally, so I apparently let go way more
steam than I should have ever let myself do.
Since the first beta's of GNOME came out that I was extremely excited
with this project, however, my attentions where drawn elsewhere, and I
did not have a computer yet, back then, but instead used ancient
x-terminals with twm (or something almost as bad), then afterstep and
window maker (depending on the machine you logged on).
Since 2000, I slowly started getting involved with a project, that is
one of the applications of a very important gnome project. I have
"recently" decided to get seriously more involved with GNOME
development, and have been reading documentation, and trying to learn
some gnome related techs, among others.
Because of the above mentioned decisions, I decided I should only keep
the gnome1 libraries and move on to gnome2. This envolved a large number
of changes I was not mentally ready to do, specially because I couldn't
know I'd be living in a somewhat rough period in the weeks following
that change.
I was not ready for the unalerted change with viewports, for instance,
but I quickly got a way around it (Thanks John!). I do, however, have
strong objections to what's being currently considered user friendly
(but let's not stray), and so instead of a more sane approach I was as
beligerant as a small child.
I was a lot more harsh than I ever had the need for, I used stronger
wordings than what where ever needed, and was partially responsible to a
huge monster thread.
This behaviour was wrong because:
* some get too anoyed by big threads (Mikael, for instance)
I am sorry.
* did not do any good due to gnome 2.0 timelines
I am sorry.
* created some bad blood between important coders and me
I am sorry.
I loved gnome because it gave me a desktop, on a Free Software OS, where
I was not bound to the usage guidelines of someone.
The current usage guidelines made gnome too non user friendly for
myself, and that blew a baloon that was waiting to blow up.
Unfourtunately for you, dear fellow developers, you caught the wrecks.
In the mean while I've gotten around most of my problems (I don't use
the gnome pager anymore, and I have viewports on sawfish) and have since
had time to appreciate aa text widgets, the ferrari nautilus changed
into (note that I use nautilus for convincing other users that this is
not a CLI based world, and the launch and dir parsing speed where very
helpfull), etc.
Those "small" things did not affect my wish to make GNOME a better place
or drive me away, I just felt extremely frustrated. I did however remove
packages that started to annoy me --- like gnome-terminal --- but most
gnome2 stuff is good and I am not a new comer (but to a couple of
m-lists) so stopping participation or being driven away (to KDE? no way,
windows or mac? I'd rather be impaled!) for either arrogance (from any
side) or lack of easily accessible features would be just too stupid.
So I hope those I hurt the most will forgive my harsh words, but,
however, they must understand that they where partly at fault too.
Well, this email is already too long, and I don't want to waste any more
time, I guess I'll worry more about gnome 2.2 or whatever's next.
Huge regards for you all,
Rui
--
+ No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
+ Whatever you do will be insignificant,
| but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi
+ So let's do it...?
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