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GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010
supersloshy writes "Contrary to popular opinion, GNOME 3 will not be released in March next year. It has been delayed until September 2010, six months later. According to the news message, this is because 'our community wants GNOME 3.0 to be fully working for users and why we believe September is more appropriate.' GNOME 3's main goal is to re-define the ways people interact with the desktop, mainly through a new UI design (currently called 'GNOME Shell'), while GNOME 2.30, set for release in March, will have a focus on being stable. An early visual tour of GNOME 3 has been posted at Digitizor."
is a badge of honor and a sound development strategy, one M$ doesn't care to follow. hence that great difference between open-source and $$ driven.
+1 Insightful
Vista actually did this but you linux fanboys were too busy falting it for reasons that Mohave showed were false.
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> Gnome3 looks unusable anyways, delay it forever.
> Go through the early tour and tell me that is more
> usable. I've no idea wtf they were thinking.
"How can we make this more *different* from what long-time users want and expect, so that they have a harder time configuring it back toward normal behavior and an even harder time adjusting to the idiosyncrasies that can't be configured away?"
This is what the Gnome developers have been thinking ever since they started work on version 2.0. It has become their modus operandi. (Microsoft has now started to do the same thing, with the inability to turn off the $#@! "improvements" and get back the normal "classic" behavior in Seven like you could do in previous versions. Thus, they have started down the Gnome path.)
You want to see a useful Gnome desktop environment, that can be easily configured to behave in the desirable fashion? Use version 1.4 sometime. The downside is, it's basically impossible to use modern applications with it, because of library version dependency conflicts.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
> Maybe they're trying to innovate and do something new and different.
Innovation would be okay if we could turn off the "innovations" we dislike. But the general pattern with Gnome (starting from version 2.0) is that such changes, especially the most undesirable ones, are usually mandatory, i.e., it is impossible to configure things back to the way we want them, impossible to get back basic functionality that we had in version 1.4.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
Actually I think mono is viral, infusing evil M$ .NET code into our beloved Linux. It is also a colossal wast of time because .NET sux in the first place.
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