On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 1:21 PM, alex diavatis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Emmanuele, > > How you can see metrics when GNOME hasn't a metric system? :/ > You can only see that by "perception" :) >
Right, so perception is not really accurate is it? :-) However, guess what? When we finally have appstream and gnome software fully functioning then we might indeed get some idea what the market is like. sri > On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 11:17 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi; >> >> On 4 April 2015 at 20:37, alex diavatis <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> While I think we can discuss whether the presence of a dock could >> >> ensure gaining users, I also don't think GNOME needs to "win back" >> >> users in the first place. >> > >> > What that's supposed to mean? GNOME doesn't need to get users back? >> >> I'd object to the point of getting "users back" until I see a metric >> that gives me the number of a) Linux users and b) GNOME users before >> and after any imaginary point in time (usually people that say "get >> users back" use the 3.0 release, missing the larger point of "when >> Ubuntu switched to Unity" one), but I'll just say: getting users back >> from what? Why do we need to convert the small pool of Linux users, >> when a larger pool of non-Linux users exists to be tapped? >> >> In any case, my main issue was the argument that a dock is not going >> to be a point of contention when a person decides whether or not to >> use GNOME. >> >> Ciao, >> Emmanuele. >> >> -- >> https://www.bassi.io >> [@] ebassi [@gmail.com] > > > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
