My request to ubuntu developer team

Sat Nov 19 22:08:22 UTC 2011

No need to fork. Use Linux Mint.

From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Art Edwards
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2011 4:07 PM
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: My request to ubuntu developer team

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> 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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