On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 15:49 +0400, Илья Черных wrote:
we GNOME people are far more fun-loving and care-free]. Until Gnome3, perhaps?
There will certainly be people who complain; I won't be one of them.
People who are rigidly attached to their legacy workflow will
undoubtedly jump ship to something like LXDE. Some small minority of
them will view this as a kind of betrayal [which is totally
unjustifiable as it implies there was a commitment made to them] and
make a disproportionate amount of noise.
The direction of GNOME3 makes sense. Zeitgeist
http://live.gnome.org/Zeitgeist and GNOME Activity Journal
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeActivityJournal offers a much more natural
[and scalable] way to work [much like the improvement provided by
Beagle/Tracker http://live.gnome.org/Tracker/WhatIsTracker over the
many-many-folders model]. And the desktop needs to evolve to deal with
the fusion of [fat-]local/web/'cloud' applications.
I've run GNOME3-preview. It works pretty well, but I'm glad they
delayed release until mid-2011.
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Adam Tauno Williams