Antonio Olivares wrote: > > > --- On Sat, 4/2/11, mike cloaked<mike.cloa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> From: mike cloaked<mike.cloa...@gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: [OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons" >> To: vma...@ipb.ac.rs, "Community support for Fedora >> users"<users@lists.fedoraproject.org> >> Date: Saturday, April 2, 2011, 6:28 AM >> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:43 PM, >> Marko Vojinovic<vvma...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> And finally, Fedora will not be the only distro where >> this happens, others will >>> follow eventually, just like they did with KDE. >>> >>> I don't want to play a prophet or to sound negative, >> but --- mark my words... >>> ;-) >>> >>> My advice is to just try to adapt to new Gnome, or >> migrate to KDE or some >>> other DE, and adapt to that. But don't weep and moan >> about Gnome 2, it will be >>> effectively dead very soon > > I doubt it (but on Fedora *this is true*). Many folks[*That have a comfort > zone with Gnome 2.X*] will stick to Fedora 14 till they can adapt to GNOME 3 > or move on to other desktops. KDE 3 did not die, BTW it lives as trinity > desktop: > > http://www.trinitydesktop.org/ > > Some speculate that GNOME 2.X will live on as a fork? it is possible but > since we use Fedora many of us users will use what is here and unless we are > willing to do some work on our own can use the alternative desktops or other > ways of dealing with this. > I don't view the window manager as a video game, and I have more things I want to learn than time to learn them. Therefore, I really reject the idea of having to waste time learning GNOME3, which by design will never do what I want because it is designed from the bottom up with the top priority being keeping dumb users from hurting themselves rather than letting competent users be productive.
What a shame, after making GNOME2 so good, instead of make GNOME3 more powerful, they decided to make it "child safe" instead. -- Bill Davidsen <david...@tmr.com> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
