On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Simos Xenitellis <[email protected] > wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <[email protected]> > 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 awesome[ ]sauce 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 can expect that long-time users of GNOME 2 would be reluctant to > migrate to GNOME 3. > It's probably like trying to move between the awesome emacs to the > awesome vim (or the other way round). > There are people who are proficient in one, and they have no clue on > how to use the other. > > Some more marketing ideas, having more people stating that they love > GNOME 3 (as Sriram mentions) will help. > > For the Linus I would consider that he would probably be better off > with a window manager such as 'awesome', > http://awesome.naquadah.org/ which is ideal for programming and no > distractions. > I would dare to suggest to take advantage of the comments of Linus, > with a marketing line like > "Can you outperform Linus? Try GNOME 3!" > "GNOME 3: Go where Linus backed off" > "*I* can learn new tricks, GNOME 3" > GNOME 3 - To Hawt for Linus! sri > > Simos >
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