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Havoc Pennington on GNOME 3's Future

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the this-way-or-that-way dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Havoc Pennington, lead developer of GNOME, wants to fork GNOME 3. 'So the forces of existing userbase, the easiest-to-reach future userbase, cross-platform applications, and funded development efforts are strongly pulling GNOME 2 toward conservatism. I think GNOME 3 should be a fork for that reason.'" This has been a common practice for not only many open source projects, but proprietary systems such as Solaris for major revisions, so it's not as tumultous a change as the word "fork" may imply.

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  1. Translation by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Darn those pesky users for making us stablize things instead of hacking cool new features! I mean, which would you rather have, a foot menu that works or spatial Nautilus?

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    1. Re:Translation by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Funny

      Spatial Nautilus is the only file manager avaiable that works the way I want a file manager to work.

      You must be a GNOME developer. ;-D

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  2. Imagine it was a spoon instead of a fork by Timesprout · · Score: 5, Funny

    oh wait, there is no spoon

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