On 14 Jun 2012, at 18:19 , Spencer Gardner wrote:

>> The sad reality is that they screwed up ubuntu with unity.
> 
> This is a value judgment on your part that is not necessarily shared by other 
> users
> 
>> Given the fact that time for maintaining and developing qgis 
>> is scarce, we certainly want to optimize it. Investing it on
>> solving problems related to  a desktop that is not good, is,
>> in my opinion, a waste of precious time.
> 
> I see the core issue as this: Should QGIS as a project force users to adjust 
> their software usage to fit the tailored preferences of its developers, or 
> should the developers adjust their development decisions to accommodate 
> users? It's an age-old problem in the free software world and I don't pretend 
> to have a right answer as to where that line should be drawn in this case. My 
> own opinion is that it would be foolish to drop support for the default 
> desktop environment on the most highly-visible and arguably most popular 
> Linux platform.

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