On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:58 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > If dissenting voices has nothing to offer than "it is all wrong, I
> > will go with product x", then it is not even worth to bother, because
> > all it does it creates flame wars like this. There is constructive
> > criticism (bug reports, written use cases which doesn't work), and
> > then there is just empty posturing, just because you disagree with
> > overall direction of platform.
>
> I didn't say "it is all wrong" or anything of the sort. I simply said
> that it might be instructive to note that few GNOME users are coming
> out to support GNOME 3 in the wake of Linus, Ted, and others
> criticizing it.
>
> I'm 100% certain that wouldn't have been the case three years ago. I
> talk to a lot of people, and I've found very few who genuinely like
> GNOME 3.0 - and I'm talking about people who've loved or at least
> liked GNOME 2.x.
>
> BTW, Linus and others, while ranting, have also pointed to specific
> things they do not like about GNOME 3.
>
>
Sorry, I didn't want to turn this into a referendum on  GNOME 3 design.  The
answer could simply be that kernel developers have the support of other
kernel developers who in turn are also just saying the same thing.

sri
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