Indeed, for us who use computer as tool, solid interface that provides clear list of windows and switching between them is what's needed, no fancy graphics and animations.
Windows is a good example of this - Windows 7, and most likely Windows 8, too, supports everyway of configuring your window access and taskbar someone actually used on Windows _95_. That's 16 years from now. Windows 7 has lot of more options and features and has different default settings, but still, everything can be configured to work just like you have found the most efficient way for yourself in earlier versions.
And this is what Gnome project should have done. It's fine to remove the advantage of PC (over tablets) for users who prefer eye-candy over "just a tool", but it's not fine to make it *impossible* to use it like you did on earlier versions.
This is the reason the people I know who used to use Gnome 2.x now all use XFCE. Even with extensions Gnome 3 is just a quickly hacked demo when it comes to configurability.
To make a good, new, user interface you need a clue on what's the workflow for your user base. Just removing features is not how it's done; it's done by offering all the customizability _somewhere_ but prioritizing the user goals most needed to be easier to access than the rest.
The only thing I see this guy indicating is that he strongly dislikes what Israel has done to his workmate and wishes them to change the way they implement their politics. He just worded it in particularly stupid and uncareful way, no arguing that.
It's not any different from some ppl telling that certain middle-eastern countries should be nuked to glass plateau and made to a parking lot.. or somebody wishing some other country to just disappear. Hot-headed, yes, stupid, yes, uncareful wording, yes. Really meaning to implement the actions suggested - no way.
You just have unusually good self-restraint if you can honestly say you have never said about anybody that they should just go to some rather hot place or otherwise cease to exist. And unusually bad understanding about human behaviour, if you really think person saying so in the bar, party or electronic forms of chat truly means it and is going to think the same on the next day. Let alone implement it.
You can despise his way of saying it however much you like, but please do not go around telling he meant literally what he said, as we both no it's just not true.
Yeah, it does. When someone states that they want to join the Nazis to genocide a race, that should be public information. 2AM on IRC or not, it's obvious he meant it.
I think many of you guys need to readjust your sense of proportionality. This guy has most likely done more to both world peace _and_ open source world than 99% of the whiners on this forum.. and now you are mocking him for not revealing some interpersonal issues and saying ill-considered things in chat *once* when obviously being out of his mind.
Consider this. That guy has 1) worked deeply on a project for six years and has just made a decision to quit it, 2) has just lost a coworker in a bit questionable series of events, 3) is obviously depressed or burned out or both, 4) is constantly under threat while serving in hostile country with no infrastructure of whatsoever and having to remain calm and peaceful while in desperate situation and underpowered, 5) has had harder than normal time in service past six months and 6) people are blaming you for not answering their *software project* emails fast enough, when you have been busy with things 4 and 5.
If you can say you have experienced even *half* of these, let alone simultaneously and are willing to come up and admit it, *then* I can take you seriously when you come and say that you didn't say anything unprintable in that situation. Maybe.
And also remember: english is not his native language. It's more than a bit hypocritical to judge someone you have not even met by his writing in *chat* in *foreign language*, especially when the chat log is spread without his consent by someone who is not willing to reveal his name, nor the context of the discussion.
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Indeed, for us who use computer as tool, solid interface that provides clear list of windows and switching between them is what's needed, no fancy graphics and animations.
Windows is a good example of this - Windows 7, and most likely Windows 8, too, supports everyway of configuring your window access and taskbar someone actually used on Windows _95_. That's 16 years from now. Windows 7 has lot of more options and features and has different default settings, but still, everything can be configured to work just like you have found the most efficient way for yourself in earlier versions.
And this is what Gnome project should have done. It's fine to remove the advantage of PC (over tablets) for users who prefer eye-candy over "just a tool", but it's not fine to make it *impossible* to use it like you did on earlier versions.
This is the reason the people I know who used to use Gnome 2.x now all use XFCE. Even with extensions Gnome 3 is just a quickly hacked demo when it comes to configurability.
To make a good, new, user interface you need a clue on what's the workflow for your user base. Just removing features is not how it's done; it's done by offering all the customizability _somewhere_ but prioritizing the user goals most needed to be easier to access than the rest.
So called 3G (3rd Generation) mobile networks were designed just for that. You do not need 2Mbit/s connection for phone calls..
That's why it's also dead easy to get a USB modem that operates on mobile network, and unlimited data plan for it, if you happen to live in Europe.
20 euros to start with and then 10e/month is the usual rate. Because that's what the 3G was designed to do.
The only thing I see this guy indicating is that he strongly dislikes what Israel has done to his workmate and wishes them to change the way they implement their politics. He just worded it in particularly stupid and uncareful way, no arguing that.
It's not any different from some ppl telling that certain middle-eastern countries should be nuked to glass plateau and made to a parking lot.. or somebody wishing some other country to just disappear. Hot-headed, yes, stupid, yes, uncareful wording, yes. Really meaning to implement the actions suggested - no way.
You just have unusually good self-restraint if you can honestly say you have never said about anybody that they should just go to some rather hot place or otherwise cease to exist. And unusually bad understanding about human behaviour, if you really think person saying so in the bar, party or electronic forms of chat truly means it and is going to think the same on the next day. Let alone implement it.
You can despise his way of saying it however much you like, but please do not go around telling he meant literally what he said, as we both no it's just not true.
I think many of you guys need to readjust your sense of proportionality. This guy has most likely done more to both world peace _and_ open source world than 99% of the whiners on this forum.. and now you are mocking him for not revealing some interpersonal issues and saying ill-considered things in chat *once* when obviously being out of his mind.
Consider this. That guy has
1) worked deeply on a project for six years and has just made a decision to quit it,
2) has just lost a coworker in a bit questionable series of events,
3) is obviously depressed or burned out or both,
4) is constantly under threat while serving in hostile country with no infrastructure of whatsoever and having to remain calm and peaceful while in desperate situation and underpowered,
5) has had harder than normal time in service past six months and
6) people are blaming you for not answering their *software project* emails fast enough, when you have been busy with things 4 and 5.
If you can say you have experienced even *half* of these, let alone simultaneously and are willing to come up and admit it, *then* I can take you seriously when you come and say that you didn't say anything unprintable in that situation. Maybe.
And also remember: english is not his native language. It's more than a bit hypocritical to judge someone you have not even met by his writing in *chat* in *foreign language*, especially when the chat log is spread without his consent by someone who is not willing to reveal his name, nor the context of the discussion.