Shuttleworth's Take On GNOME 3.0, Coordination with Debian

suka writes "In a fresh interview with derStandard.at, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth talks about GNOME 3.0 — its strengths, but also about what he thinks is missing. He also mentions ongoing talks for a common meta-release-cycle with Debian which could delay the next LTS."

Comments

Yay! Fixing 100 Paper Cuts!

[ziggamon2.0]

So, it finally happened! A major effort by a distro to fix one hundred really small but irritating bugs. Also known as polish. This is what Ubuntu needs, and to be fair has been quite good at. Just fixing more and more of the tiny annoyances is what creates a well-rounded desktop. On the other hand, they are introducing Gnome Shell, which while probably cool, will certainly introduce a couple of hundred new paper cuts!

https://launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts

Re:Not the KDE4 way, plase

[nutshell42]

Gnome 2.0 was just as unusable. They just pretended is was for philosophical reasons.

OSX 10.0 was crap, hell even Microsoft needed 3 years after Vista (with some major architecture changes).

It just takes too much time the achieve feature/stability/usability parity with the old system no matter how needed those major under-the-hood changes were.

So sorry, Gnome will take the same path as everyone else and sites will rush to declare 3.0 "A Major Disappointment". What you can hope for, though, is that distros won't be so braindead to drop Gnome 2 immediately after the 3.0 release.

Honestly, there was a time when distributions were concerned about providing a usable user experience instead of just grabbing all the latest stuff, add their configuration tools and ship that crap. See PulseAudio, great idea, terrible execution on every single fucking distro I've tried.