On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 16:01 +0100, Nelson Marques wrote:
Dear all, There's too much fuss around Unity and GNOME at the moment.
So you are adding more?
'Unity' comes with some pure sarcasm, and the media is passing on already a very twisted idea about GNOME. On this article from 'The Register' a less technical user can pretty much take the conclusion that GNOME is a solution for obsolete environments.
I dunno; I doubt any media that covers the Unity/Ubuntu story reaches anybody who doesn't already know what GNOME or a Linux distribution is.
My suggestions to this list so that we can help GNOME from openSUSE, and at the same time, defend our users. Unity is going to become 'hype', Canonical's marketing is on that. Our users will feel tempted to try out 'Unity'. Unity has it's own 3rd party distribution channels. OK, Dell this or Dell that, but small local hardware manufacturers
"***small*** local hardware manufacturers" can certainly be ignored.
message and they are also pushing Ubuntu.
Aren't people free to "push" whatever they want?
War was brought upon us,
This seems an extreme over reaction to me. "War"? really? It is just another fork... yawn. It will probably go the way of most forks.
A small set of actions that can help us: 1. Do not engage Canonical directly.
I don't believe boycotts do much of anything in the 21st century. But OK - check. I've never dealt with Canonical before.
2. Take a stand - By not facing directly Canonical/Ubuntu/Unity, but instead to promote GNOME Shell and GNOME3. I would base all the message in the following points: * Invitation to a whole new user experience; * Invitation to be a part of something, GNOME; * Invitation to be a part of a innovation; * Promote only people, no screenshots, no tech stuff. Drop that mentality, if we are a community, we are people, as such we build our message based on the people, GNOME developers, packagers, and specially USERS!.
Ugh, no. Users ultimately don't care about any of that, they want software that works really well.
* Refuse to be shy and brag a lot about how GNOME3 can be the ultimate experience for your desktop (ease of use, reliability, productivity).
Done
Means: The traditional digital means we use! Social Networks, Blog spheres, even YOUTUBE! Specially youtube. (I know it's H264, but we have a higher purpose, promote GNOME3).
I thought you said no screenshots?
Canonical took a stand, we take a stand, and hopefully next time we take a stand even before Canonical did it. I don't like to use this expression due to it's author, but I would to do so:
Did they take a stand? I think they just made a [misguided, IMO] decision. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org