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

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:No, seriously by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Linus explains it better why these fabled extensions are horrendous:

    https://plus.google.com/u/0/102150693225130002912/posts/UkoAaLDpF4i

  2. Re:No, seriously by Dcnjoe60 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm using Cinammon, too, but my teeth are grinding. KDE is starting to look attractive again, although she's put some weight on.

    Actually, if you disable the desktop search function in the settings, KDE uses less resources than Gnome 3 (shell or cinnamon) or Unity. At least that is my experience.