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Designer Jon McCann: "More Optimistic About GNOME Than In a Long Time"

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 23, 2012 @12:43AM from the hoping-to-love-it-again dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In an extensive interview with derStandard.at, GNOME designer Jon McCann shares his thoughts about all the criticism GNOME 3 currently faces and why he doesn't think at all that GNOME is in a crisis. He also talks about the current plans for GNOME OS and explains why he thinks that Linux distributions should rethink their purpose."

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Re:No, seriously by fbobraga · 2012-08-23 01:22 · Score: 1, Funny

For non-techies, the user friendliness of GNOME 3 is the greatest that I've ever seen!
Re:That is too bad. by houstonbofh · 2012-08-23 02:21 · Score: 2, Funny

No the problem is that it is really single task oriented. It takes extra work to have multiple windows and to divide things by workflow as opposed to application. It may come as a shock to the Gnome devs, but not every web browser should be grouped together under one workflow.