I am, right now, attempting to publicly counter your incorrect perceptions. Others have also done so. See, for example, Jeff Waugh's excellent blog post on the matter.
And who are you? Are you an official spokesperson for the GNOME Foundation? A post on Slashdot by some random person doesn't equate to an official public pronouncement by the GNOME Foundation.
I am Shaun McCance. I have been an active Gnome developer since 2002, and a Foundation member since 2003. You can verify my membership on the Foundation Membership List. I maintain three packages in the desktop release and one in the developer tools, and I lead the Gnome Documentation Team.
Should you just take my word for it? Of course not. But I have pointed you to concrete facts, and that should be sufficient for you to at least attempt to do some real fact-checking, rather than posting unsubstantiated drivel.
It doesn't matter what the "facts" are with regard to his official position in GNOME. What matters is peoples' perceptions. And the real fact of the matter is that people associate Miguel with GNOME.
And when we tell you the facts, you ignore them. You keep making your assertions, which in turn sway people's perceptions. It's a Catch-22.
If the Foundation wants to convince everyone that Miguel does not have a hand in GNOME any more, then they need to publicly cast him out, denounce him, and announce that he no longer has any power with GNOME any more, and does not speak for them in any way. That's how you eliminate perceptions: you publicly counter them and state what the truth is. Instead, the GNOME foundation has done nothing at all to counter this perception.
I am, right now, attempting to publicly counter your incorrect perceptions. Others have also done so. See, for example, Jeff Waugh's excellent blog post on the matter.
And what would we cast Miguel out of? Would you have us revoke his Foundation membership? That's ridiculous. There are a lot of Foundation members who disagree with a lot of other Foundation members on a lot of topics. That's their right.
Wrong. Miguel speaks for the GNOME Foundation, so his endorsement of OOXML equates to an endorsement by GNOME itself.
If the GNOME Foundation doesn't like this, they need to take extra steps to distance themselves from Miguel. They haven't done this at all, so we must assume that they agree with everything Miguel says.
Miguel has nothing to do with the GNOME Foundation, other than being one of 370 individual members. His comments are no more associated with the Foundation than mine or those of any other member. He is not on the board of directors and has no other formal role.
For some time, Miguel was the standing President of the Foundation, which was a purely ceremonial role that meant nothing. Earlier this year, the Foundation asked Miguel to resign from this role to allow the President to be appointed from the board of directors each year.
What, exactly, would you have the Foundation do to convince you that Miguel does not speak for it? Is it even possible, or do you just enjoy spreading misinformation?
These take a fair amount of time to prepare. Now if you want a quick overview of what's changed since the last point release, the NEWS entries of all the modules are aggregated together for quick reading:
This is a beta release, and the slashdot announcement was not made by the release team. The release notes are being worked on right now. We can't help it if people jump the gun with announcements.
Re:Is this GNOME or WinXP with a skin?
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the help browser looks exactly like windows
Really? I mean, really? Here's Davyd's screenshot of the Gnome help browser:
Hmm, so they both have Back buttons. Oh, and scrollbars. And look, they both display formatted text! Those Gnome developers are just a bunch of copycats.
For the record, I blatently copied the OS X help browser, not the XP help browser.
Do you really need Bookmarks and Go in a help browser?
Regarding Go: Do you know what's under that menu? It has Back and Forward, and it has Previous Section and Next Section. I really doubt the menu itself is used that often, but the actions in the menu are very commonly used, either by toolbar buttons or by keyboard shortcuts.
Regarding Bookmarks: For most simple application help, it really isn't necessary. You see some dialog, you think "What the heck is this option?", and you pull up the help. You don't want to spend time in the help browser. You want to get back to your work.
But then there are people who look up function references for Gnumeric. And systems administrators who have to refer to certain bits of system documentation often. There are people for whom bookmarks are incredibly useful. The interface is still very simple, and the addition of bookmarks doesn't really hurt those who don't need them.
I get the impression that you just wanted something, anything, to complain about.
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I am Shaun McCance. I have been an active Gnome developer since 2002, and a Foundation member since 2003. You can verify my membership on the Foundation Membership List. I maintain three packages in the desktop release and one in the developer tools, and I lead the Gnome Documentation Team.
Should you just take my word for it? Of course not. But I have pointed you to concrete facts, and that should be sufficient for you to at least attempt to do some real fact-checking, rather than posting unsubstantiated drivel.
And when we tell you the facts, you ignore them. You keep making your assertions, which in turn sway people's perceptions. It's a Catch-22.
I am, right now, attempting to publicly counter your incorrect perceptions. Others have also done so. See, for example, Jeff Waugh's excellent blog post on the matter.
And what would we cast Miguel out of? Would you have us revoke his Foundation membership? That's ridiculous. There are a lot of Foundation members who disagree with a lot of other Foundation members on a lot of topics. That's their right.
Miguel has nothing to do with the GNOME Foundation, other than being one of 370 individual members. His comments are no more associated with the Foundation than mine or those of any other member. He is not on the board of directors and has no other formal role.
For some time, Miguel was the standing President of the Foundation, which was a purely ceremonial role that meant nothing. Earlier this year, the Foundation asked Miguel to resign from this role to allow the President to be appointed from the board of directors each year.
What, exactly, would you have the Foundation do to convince you that Miguel does not speak for it? Is it even possible, or do you just enjoy spreading misinformation?
We can't make full release notes for every single point release. And when I say release notes, I mean these:
/ NEWS
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.2/notes/
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.4/notes/
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.6/notes/
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.8/notes/
These take a fair amount of time to prepare. Now if you want a quick overview of what's changed since the last point release, the NEWS entries of all the modules are aggregated together for quick reading:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/desktop/2.9/2.9.90
This is a beta release, and the slashdot announcement was not made by the release team. The release notes are being worked on right now. We can't help it if people jump the gun with announcements.
Really? I mean, really? Here's Davyd's screenshot of the Gnome help browser:
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http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-10/images/yel
Here's some XP help browser screenshots, courtesy of Google image search:
http://www.winona.edu/its/techsupport/images/help
http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/security/bulleti
Hmm, so they both have Back buttons. Oh, and scrollbars. And look, they both display formatted text! Those Gnome developers are just a bunch of copycats.
For the record, I blatently copied the OS X help browser, not the XP help browser.
Do you really need Bookmarks and Go in a help browser?Regarding Go: Do you know what's under that menu? It has Back and Forward, and it has Previous Section and Next Section. I really doubt the menu itself is used that often, but the actions in the menu are very commonly used, either by toolbar buttons or by keyboard shortcuts.
Regarding Bookmarks: For most simple application help, it really isn't necessary. You see some dialog, you think "What the heck is this option?", and you pull up the help. You don't want to spend time in the help browser. You want to get back to your work.
But then there are people who look up function references for Gnumeric. And systems administrators who have to refer to certain bits of system documentation often. There are people for whom bookmarks are incredibly useful. The interface is still very simple, and the addition of bookmarks doesn't really hurt those who don't need them.
I get the impression that you just wanted something, anything, to complain about.