(BTW, if you come to LW, ask Raster how he chose the name, it's a great story.)
The story can be found here: http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7888
As usual, the user comments are fast, furious, and unbelievably stupidly f**king moronic. Apparently there are a large number of folks who STILL sit around trolling google for news of E so they can spew their baggage, which is interesting because they obviously haven't used E for 4+ years.
Anyway. This arguably means that /. isn't far off from a report, namely due to overwhelming support from Rob (aka: CmdrTaco). I've done the best I can to make the E site clear that we are made up of 3 diffrent projects, and that we're about (and have always been about) more than just a Window Manager (think about GNOMEs dependancy on Imlib untill GNOME 2.0). But I digress.
Something that might be interesting would be for a bunch of us to each pick 1 or 2 really stupid irritating user comments, respond to them, and then make a page outta it. That in and of itself might get some press to help perminantly dim (if even just alittle) the noisy idiots.
Anyone wanna give it a shot? Doesn't seem like we have much to loose. I suppose the only restriction is that we should make the responces as generic and polite as possible, so as not to invite more morons to the frey.
My persona fav is:
" All I have to say about Enlightenment is that it's unusable. Visual Usability is really thrown out of the window in favor of eye candy. Now, if the target of these developers is to simply research the "coolness" of things, then E is a great, fun project. If their target is real life end users though, E --the way it looks and behaves today-- is useless. "
Insidently, this comment was made by the Editor-in-Cheif of OSNews (Eugina). The wonderful thing about this comment is that I think most of us would agree that DR16 (obviously what she refers to) the thing that really keeps you running E isn't the eye candy but the easy of interaction and simple yet powerful management in the real world! Really, she's got it all completely backwards. When these people say "it's not like GNOME/KDE" in terms of feel/functionality, I think they really mean "It's not as restrictive as Win32". We offer everything you could want and more. These sorts posts are just amazingly daft, and I wish we could find a way to stomp this stuff out.
benr.
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