Nice email sent to webmaster [Gnome 2.0 is truly excellent!]

[Pat Costello <Patrick Costello Sun COM>]

Jeff sent out the attached mail on the developer list. As well as praising the 
developers, this feedback is also validation of all the hard work that the 
documentation team has put in to create consistent terminology, not only in 
documentation but throughout the GNOME UI and applications. The consistent, 
regularly-updated GDSG, plus lots of interaction between writers and the 
usability and developer teams is clearly paying dividends. 

Pat



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Thanks Luke,

I'm Cc'ing your email to some of our developer lists, where the awesome
hackers who've worked so hard on GNOME will see it. Thanks very much!

- Jeff

<quote who="Luke Waldon">

> To everyone at gnome.org,
> I just want to congratulate you all for your excellent
> work on Gnome 2.0. I have used linux on and off for
> the past four years and now use it full time. In this
> time I have seen both KDE and Gnome develop. My first
> encounter  with Desktop environments on GNU/Linux were
> KDE 1.0 and Gnome 0.something. At first both scared me
> back to windows.
> 
>  I have watched the evolution of both desktops and in
> my opinion KDE had the lead right up until version
> 2.2. My experience with Gnome  in the past had been
> horrible. Their was no consistency in naming
> conventions, menus were out of date and unorganised
> and applets and programs crashed on a regular basis. 
> 
> I have recently installed RedHat 8.0 and dived head
> first into the unknown, Gnome 2.0. At first I did not
> know what to expect. Was it going to be as horrid as
> its ancestors?
> 
> Absolutely not! It looks as though it has been
> designed from the ground up. True effort has been put
> into everything, icons, themes, fonts, graphical art
> and it is all consistent.Hoorah! Antialiased text is
> truly brilliant and the artwork is spectacular. I am
> now a true convert. Gnome 2.0 is exceptionally fast
> and breathtaking. Unlike KDE, with the advent of
> version 3.0 has become bloated, unresponsive and
> painfully slow. 
> 
> To everyone who contributed to this project you have
> truly outdone yourselves. Keep up the excellent work
> in bringing elegance to Linux but whatever you do,
> don't let Gnome 2.0 become outdated or bloated. The
> new naming conventions such as 'Text Editor'and
> 'Calculator' are far better for the everyday user than
> the old ones such as 'Gedit','Glines',etc. This new
> system allow users to focus on what has to be done
> rather than in which tool it is done.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Luke Waldon

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