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GNOME Ignoring its Own Users?
Jonathan writes "Some editorials were posted on the web the last few days about GNOME and its apparent lack of interest on user feedback, especially when GNOME pitches itself to follow a 'users first philosophy' in their press releases. OSNews started with an editorial about market research or lack thereof, Expert-Zone posted another one on how OSS must learn to take responsibility on its great success."
I can't feel like a geek if other people can use it!!!
they took the Linux instal away from me... now they are taking GNOME away as well!!!
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
I thought it was supposed to be PEOPLE that thought GNOMES didn't exist, not the other way around... ;)
"Nature bats last..."
Yeah, they are both crap.
(as in too big, too slow, too much like Windows, too inefficient to work in,...)
Linux is not Windows
GNOME seems to respond to my mouse gestures and keypresses pretty effectively.
Granted, I haven't been able to train it yet to respond to my thought signals and verbal commands, but I would hardly attribute it to GNOME's lack of interest to obey me.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
They didn't tell her to STFU or to F off & die.
That's really a shame, because somebody really should say that to Eugenia.
Daily.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
lowly user: What is this pus?
gnome dev/fanboy: It's spatial Nautilus! It's easier to use; 9 out of 10 eggheaded usability experts say it's miles better than the old way.
lowly user: I hate it. Take it away. Put it back the way it was before.
gnome dev/fanboy: But you haven't given it a chance! See, re-organize everything on your hard drive and change the way you perform your everyday tasks, and spatial Nautilus will save you 0.5 milliseconds on some operations.
lowly user: I just want it to work the way I'm used to.
gnome dev/fanboy: Well, you're wrong for wanting that.
lowly user: Put it back right now! I'm going insane from all the extra windows!
gnome dev/fanboy: Well, just learn this new shortcut key to close them all when you're done.
lowly user: I don't want them to open in the first place. This sucks. I hate it. Put it back.
gnome dev/fanboy: Man, you are just like the other 10,000 lowly users I've talked to this week. What is wrong with you people? I can't imagine how you Luddites will react to the next version, when we make Dvorak (which is 2% more efficient than QWERTY) the default keyboard layout and force you to crawl over broken glass to change it back!
lowly user: Guess I need to look into purchasing that Windows license after all...
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
nonsensicle
Mmmm... sweet, frozen nonsense on a stick.
They took my original quote verbatim but changed "received" from the correct spelling to an incorrect one!