Re: Why do features disappear?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões <albie alfarrabio di uminho pt>]

Andy, I agree with you and that is one of the main reasons I switched to 
xfce. Cool things started disappearing on gnome, and standard things 
start to look uglier (me thinks).

I don't want to raise discussion, just leave my few thoughs.

Alberto

Andy Lewis wrote:
> I have been a Gnome user for quite a while, and in general like it, but
> I have on multiple occasions been frustrated by "upgrades" that
> suddenly  remove key functionality. For example, support for viewing man
> pages in the Help system was a wonderful feature that somewhere got
> dropped in an "upgrade" several versions back and has never re-appeared.
> Now, a new menu system is introduced, and while I applaud the effort to
> support the standard, there is no tool for editing the menus. Once again
> an "upgrade" that remove functionality.
>
> Is anybody actually paying attention to this? All the nice new features
> are only so cool if every time once gets added something else that WORK
> gets dropped. I have been a software developer for 20 years, and I admit
> to being completely and utterly baffled by this approach to releases. Is
> there any kind of development principal in place about not stripping out
> really useful features during development? Is there any explanation? Or
> is it simply usefulness becoming a lower priority than architecture
> changes or standards compliance? How many users do you lose each time
> something incomprehensible like this occurs - and with NO EXPLANATION AT
> ALL IN THE RELEASE NOTES. Take a look at the lists, one after another,
> distro after distro, with frustrated users over the missing menu editor.
> I just don't get it....
>
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Alberto Simões - Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho
                 Campus de Gualtar - 4710-057 Braga - Portugal