Re: One very unhappy Linux user

[AG <computing account googlemail com>]

On 28/11/11 09:48, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 09:29:15AM +0000, AG wrote:
> > That is hardly the point, is it?  The point is that users of
> > GNU/Linux want to use an OS that allows them choice and
> > reconfigurability, etc., and not to have chase the whims of
> > developers.
> I'm a use Linux and GNOME and I'm perfectly happy with GNOME 3.

Well, good for you.  I use GNU/Linux and Gnome and am not happy with 
Gnome3 but *am* perfectly happy with Gnome2.  And your point is ... ?
> > Perhaps the developers can fork the projects and call Gnome3
> > something else, like Gnome Tablet or some such, and continue to
> > offer and support Gnome2 and make it a great DE in terms of removing
> > extant bugs, and memory leaks, etc.
> Most is available under the GPL and LGPL. Feel free to find other
> people.

Pls clarify what this is supposed to mean?

> Find it somewhat impolite that although GNOME is provided for
> free (libre+price), you still dare to say how the developers should
> spend their time.

This is rich: developers - described by Stallman, Raymond, et al., as 
hackers who do it for the love of developing the code, the kudos of 
making it work and the pleasure of sticking it to the corporations in 
favor of coming up with decent, transparent and user-readable code - now 
get pissed at users who don't like what they do and resort to saying 
that "it's free - therefore use what we give you or piss off".

Great attitude there, Olav.  If you are a developer, perhaps you'd be 
best off working for a corporation like MS who get paid to *not* listen 
to their user base


> Furthermore, tablet? GNOME 3 is hardly usable on a tablet.

And yet the Gnome3 interface has been designed with tablet users in mind.