Unity ROCKS not!!!

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Sunday 08 May 2011 06:20:58 pm Douglas S. Saylor wrote:
> But take away one panel from their distro of choice and replace with a
> new dock, and the screams of outrage can be heard from the next
> continent over. "This is oppression, this isn't a democracy, we are
> being punished, how dare they," etc. etc. ad nauseam.
>
> > It's pathetic and it's childish.

It's not. _you_ find it pathetic and childish so _you_ are telling others to 
shut up. I agree there may be better to say it, but saying it is OK. 

> > Just deal with it, learn the new, and move on. That's what adults do.
> > Behave like a grown up not a three-year-old whose toy has been taken
> > away.
>
> Well said!

I find both wrong. It's not oppression, but it sure is not democracy. No one 
asked the "users" what they want, "someone" was bright enough to "find out" 
what "the majority" wants and impose it to everyone (or at least make it 
relatively difficult not to use it).

If you like a distribution and it's not going the way you like, just shutting 
your mouth and following in silence is neither "grown up" nor adult, it's 
_stupid_ (and I'll never do it). There are alternatives. What's adult to do 
is:

a) let the people know they don't like it
b) if they don't listen go their own way (or of course change it if they are 
able to)

What (some) people people are doing on this list is a); Unfortunately, having 
gone through this previously on a KDE list, I fear it's useless. And the same 
will happen on all Gnome-related lists given what Gnome 3 is.

My answer is: go look somewhere else: there are light desktops that can 
satisfy some, keep 10.10 (or less) with Gnome 2 or use 11.04 with Gnome 2, 
run Trinity-KDE 3 on 10.10, or take a look at KDE 4.6: it's taken 5 years and 
it's still bloated but it (really and with quite a lot of customising) starts 
to be usable. Try SuSE or Mepis 11.

A big question is the future of Gnome 2. the KDE team decided to kill KDE 3 
early to force KDE 4 acceptation. Will the Gnome team do the same? Early 
talks said no, but I can't find any recent infos about that. As long as Gnome 
2 is maintained, there can be an Ubuntu-Gnome 2 release, that is _if_ anyone 
can/is willng to  do it.

Thierry