My request to ubuntu developer team

[Art Edwards]

The problem for me is that I use the computer for real work. I know
others do, but it's not even a little bit of a hobby for me. Gnome 2 had
been an incredibly nice productivity tool. To me, Unity is big and dumb.
It seems the world has fallen in love with tablet interfaces. I don't
want a bunch of eye-candy on my desktop. Is there any chance that
someone will fork gnome to serve the original geeks who grew up using linux?


On 11/17/2011 09:51 PM, R S V Reddy wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com
> <mailto:lproven at gmail.com>> wrote:
>  
>
>     > But finally I would say that we are home users,
>     > we no more 'no' much of the technology under the tree but take
>     only the shadow
>     > which we need. So if our tree changes, we feel some pain.
>
>     I'm afraid I don't understand this at all. Is it a translated saying
>     or aphorism?
>
>
> By mistake, I just wrote 'no', it is in fact 'know'!
>  
>
>     I have noticed that the change from GNOME 2 to Unity does seem to have
>     caused many people much pain, yes. Personally I find this hard to
>     understand, but then, Unity is much like Mac OS X and I know Macs very
>     well, having been a Mac user (as well as a PC and Unix one) since the
>     late 1980s. It is hard for me to understand how so many people can be
>     so inflexible that a simple rearrangement of their desktop makes them
>     hate the new system.
>
>     I think that the best thing that could come out of it is lots of new
>     users for Xubuntu and Xfce, which is not as sophisticated as GNOME but
>     can be made to look and work very much like it.
>
>     (A few versions ago, the Xubuntu desktop looked almost exactly like
>     GNOME, with the same panels in the same places. Sadly, it no longer
>     does, so migrants from GNOME have some work to do as soon as they
>     start using it, rearranging it to the way that they want.)
>
>     Some will go to GNOME 3 running in Fallback Mode, but I think that
>     will disappear in a release or two, maybe in GNOME 3.4 next April. I
>     have read a news story about increasing 2D support in GNOME Shell, but
>     I can't find it now. Once GNOME Shell can run without 3D acceleration
>     (as Unity-2D does) then I think Fallback Mode will disappear.
>
>     So unless the Unity-to-GNOME-3 migrants decide they like GNOME Shell -
>     unlikely, if they hate Unity that much - then even they might well end
>     up on Xfce, I suspect.
>
>
> Yeah I agree, but since the Gnome users are using it since when they
> are using Ubuntu (true, for at least me), so they have fallen in love
> with it (at least me). On the contrary, this declaration never implies
> that Unity is bad or not good. As I commented (regarding Unity
> problems, earlier in some post, I guess..), since I heard some people
> crying for that...., that's all! But if in case, if there were an
> option to choose either from Unity or Gnome, I bet I would have gone
> with Gnome. Though this has little impact (little impact even on home
> users, house wives, kids, etc..etc..), but as said earlier, the thing
> was that Long Term Support should be intact, other versions (like
> 11.04) is good to play with or 'ready for sudden changes'; however, at
> the same time, I agree that it is just 'long term support' and this
> 'long term' has inevitably an end, like any other thing.
>
> -- 
> Two atoms are walking along. Suddenly, one stops. The other says, "What's
> wrong?" "I've lost an electron." "Are you sure?" "I'm positive!"

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