Re: bad press in the G+ circles/press

[Marcus Moeller <marcus moeller gmx ch>]

Hi all.

> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna<sri ramkrishna me>  wrote:
> > I'm not saying other Gnome people, but rather other Gnome users are not
> > chiming in and supporting it.
>
> That might tell you something right there.
>
> GNOME 3.0 might be awesomesauce for new users, but it doesn't seem to
> be striking a chord with existing GNOME users. So, what seems to be
> happening here is trading an established user base for a potential
> user base - with very little muscle to reach the potential user base.

I agree with you Joe, and find your post helpful.

It is a fact that a large number of ppl are missing the old user 
experience from GNOME 2. That should not just be noticed, but seen as a 
chance.

One way to go could be to further improve the now called Fallback mode 
(which is planned for 3.2 and +). Another option could be to rename 
Fallback to Classic. This would also not imply that it may be removed 
somewhen a fallback is no longer necessary.

So why not just address both userbases? We are not far away from that.

Greets
Marcus