Re: Fwd: Gnome objectives

["dE ." <de techno gmail com>]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Johannes Schmid <jhs jsschmid de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> Corporates do not like Composting. In fact most mature people who use
>> PC do not like composting... I'm telling you this first hand... it's
>> the young people (for e.g students) who use their Desktops as a toy
>> are the ones who like composting.
>>
>> Your effects should have been limited so they look decent in front of
>> corporates who don't like flexing, twisting and turning windows, it
>> should have been made optional. Microsoft knows that, Apple knows
>> that, but Gnome does not. As a result MS and Apple have not put tons
>> of composting in their Desktop, otherwise I don't thing it's a vary
>> hard job for apple to port compiz to Mac.
>>
>> If Gnome-shell will take over, it'll be more like a toy than something
>> really productive. And when we talk about productivity, we don't learn
>> un important new  things like the UI -- they should be standard.
>
> From your comment I somehow doubt that you have used gnome-shell for
> more than 10 seconds. It doesn't use compositing for more than zooming
> the overview in and out. Everything else is pretty static, it's not like
> compiz with all those crazy effects. Apple and Microsoft both use some
> effects in Windows 7/MacOS X and nobody complained.
>
> Regards,
> Johannes
>

Ok, I was might be wrong about that. When when I opened guake
terminal, it 'squeezed' to open + I didn't find mutter Preferences.

+ I forgot the mention that I have an ATI card which's vary bad at
composting for bad drivers.

All in all, if gnome does make such a move, I'll be forced to leave it
to prefer KDE or even xfce with gnome applications instead. Gnome
shell looks more like for an embedded device, and as I've always said,
it should be a part of gnome not the new gnome desktop. It's best
suited at this place. Development of the classic interface should
continue as primary.