Re: Active Applications list

[Apoorva Sharma <appi2012 gmail com>]

I understand that the gnome-shell developers have already made these decisions, and have decided that an application list is unnecessary after thorough research. However, it should be clear by now that the community doesn't understand the logic behind the decisions. Instead of saying "the developers have decided, please stop talking about this," the developers should respond to the community's concerns by explaining the reasoning behind the decision. For example, look at  firefox. After the developers decided to move tabs to the top for firefox 4, the community was concerned. However, instead of stifling the community's criticism, they released a short video explaining the rationale behind the decision: (http://people.mozilla.com/~faaborg/files/20100625-tabsOnTop/Tabs.theora.ogv). The gnome shell team should do something similar, and explain the rationale to the users in a clear fashion.

If after this information is released people still see valid flaws in the reasoning, maybe the team should listen to the community, who have been eagerly following the gnome- shell project, testing it and sharing their feedback.

Just my 2¢.

On Jun 26, 2010, at 5:08 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan club fr> wrote:

> Le samedi 26 juin 2010 à 11:56 +0200, Kao Chen a écrit :
>> The community  is ready to help you, for tests, bugs, documentations,
>> spread out the GnomeShell philosophy  and also for making code. But if
>> me, an enthusiastic user, I can't understand the choices that have
>> been made, and  if I don't understand how to use GnomeShell, how can I
>> help you?.
>> We are all ready to free our mind, and to learn this new desktop
>> approach, but we can't be useful if nobody explains to us.
>> 
>> I thinks a clear intention note, a FAQ, and eventually a screencast
>> could suppress many boring discussions on this list.
>> Preparing a text now will also help us (all the community) to handle
>> all the critics in September. Gnome needs to be ready for the same
>> attacks that Kde4.0 had tested few month ago. 
>> So If you want more contributors and more useful contributions, please
>> clarify the goals and the choices.
> Sorry to repeat myself, but - have you read
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design ?
> 
> Once you know what is intended by the designers, you can come and
> discuss points that you think require more elaboration on the
> #gnome-shell IRC channel. There are many interesting points other than
> the applications list ! ;-)
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
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