Re: Communicating to users what GNOME 3.0 is

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le vendredi 15 janvier 2010, à 13:44 +0100, Andre Klapper a écrit :
> Am Freitag, den 15.01.2010, 12:24 +0100 schrieb Vincent Untz:
> > Hi Stormy,
> >
> > Le mercredi 13 janvier 2010, à 10:28 -0700, Stormy Peters a écrit :
> > > I've heard quite a few concerns from very happy users that GNOME 3.0 is all
> > > about GNOME Shell and will force them to use GNOME Shell. For example, see
> > > this thread that a Friend of GNOME sent me:
> > > http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13782.
> >
> > FWIW, I thought it was pretty clear, but it looks like it's still not:
> > gnome-panel & metacity will be available for use with GNOME 3.0 (they
> > probably wouldn't be part of 3.0 officially, I'd say, although we didn't
> > really discuss this), so people would still be able to use the old look
> > and feel for a while.
>
> As with every change, there's a lot of confusion and sometimes wrong
> press about it (after reading some comments on articles in online tech
> magazines on GNOME 3).
> Beside wrong stuff like "They will remove nautilus and force us to use
> zeitgeist/journal" and the classic "Please don't repeat KDE 4.0" I've
> also seen a lot of "We cannot use gnome-panel and metacity anymore, and
> gnome-shell needs powerful hardware that I don't have" comments.
>
> It cannot hurt at all to clarify things here by communicating better and
> more often what GNOME 3 means and especially what it won't force users
> to do to reduce FUD.

Oh, yes, I agree. It's really just highlighting that we're not doing a
good job at communicating :-)

Vincent

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