Re: GNOME 3 from Fedora user's perpective - request for changes

[JB <jb 1234abcd gmail com>]

Johannes Schmid <jhs@...> writes:

> 
> Hi!
> 
> > Do it now while you are still in early dev phase, so you can adjust other
> > GUI
> > design concepts and elements accordingly.
> 
> Hmm, this made me smile to read it on day before the final release. Early
> developement phase ended more the 4 months ago :)

Well, I have realized what happened just few days ago when I installed Fedora
15 in its alpha stage with GNOME 3, which is by my observation far from done.
I did it as a reaction to Fedora users expressing their concerns about it.
 
> Your arguments about RHEL desktop issue are a bit strange to me regarding
> that most gnome-shell developers and designers are employeed by Red Hat. I
> am not saying that Red Hat management has a big influence on the design
> but I am sure that they wouldn't sponser it that much if they didn't like
> it at all.

Thanks for making me aware of this stronger than I already was.
Actually, based on their reaction to my posts, they blame it on GNOME :-)
 
> For all other points you raise, see the mailing list archive. All these
> have been discussed here to dead already.

I am surprised. I think the points I raised are fundamental to GUI
functionality and end user's acceptance, now and more so in the future by
the existing users base.
I still hope that GNOME devs will pull a rabbit from a hat and avert potential
problems with their users base.

JB