On Thursday, May 17, 2012 01:04:41 AM Steve Vasta wrote: > It seems to me that we're letting the "open-source" developers of > Ubuntu lord Unity over our heads as the next "great" desktop that > everybody has to migrate to instead of using and promoting what > actually works well. Why the developers of the Ubuntu desktop throw > away a mature desktop like gnome 3 and adopt this hack called > "Unity" (desktop peoples of the world, unite) is beyond me.
I don't know if you're being rhetorical or not; there are discussions of what they did and how they did it, published on the 'net. I found them hard to follow when I first read them so I won't look for them now, but they did have reasons, no matter how we 'unwashed masses' see it. > This > "piece of trash" should have never been promoted as the prime desktop > into Ubuntu, My recollection is that having the same look and feel across all platforms was important to them; one look on phones, tablets, laptops, desktops. Like Microsoft is doing with W8 (yes 'W8', as in 'I gave up on Microsoft; that's a big W8 off my shoulders'). Jeff -- Post Office Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html";
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