My request to ubuntu developer team

Ernest Doub hideserted at gmail.com
Sun Nov 20 23:49:39 UTC 2011


On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Amedee Van Gasse
<amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be>wrote:

> On Sat, November 19, 2011 23:40, Pongo A. Pan wrote:
>
> > 5. Michael Jackson and gnome 2 are still dead, and pretty soon the
> > traditional desktop computer will be too for most users.  Get over it.
>

BZZT!  Wrong...  The "traditional desktop" is a major production tool for
businesses.
This multi-mega-billion dollar investment isn't going to be replaced by any
handheld device in less than a decade given the most optimistic projection
of technology adoption.  This would require an increase in device
capabilities at a rate some multiple of the fastest rate seen since the
introduction of the silicon transistor.

As far as the traditional desktop being dead, I will use the analogy of
motor vehicle controls as a parallel to the GUI front end used to control
the underlying computer hardware and software.
There are 3 basic control schemes for self propelled motor vehicles.  Each
has its preferred applications and there is very little cross platform use
yet all accomplish the same basic function of controlling the functions of
a self propelled vehicle.
The 3 systems are the automotive, the motorcycle, and the track laying
vehicle.  All 3 basic systems have been in use for well over 100 years.
All 3 systems were developed within 10 to 20 years of the introduction of
self propelled vehicles and were standardized by the time the self
propelled vehicle was in common usage, having supplanted other control
schemes.
Sometimes the collective mind gets it right very early in a products
development.  The Unity desktop model is not as productive as the model
that the Gnome 2 desktop is based on.  Business decision makers aren't
interested in how shiny the new toys are they are interested in how much
work per unit of time they will produce and what it is going to cost in
terms of training and acquisition costs.  Over the long haul productivity
wins over shiny.
If you don't believe me, go ask those people who have spent their entire
career studying how to increase productivity and ask them for their opinion
of which system is better.
If the Gnome 2 software is getting old and creaky then it is time to
re-engineer the interface using the current state of the art of software
development to take advantage of advances in hardware, similar to building
automotive controls with newer and better materials.
Lets have this discussion about 5 years from now.  By then it will be
possible to discern whether the tablet is supplanting the desktop or
whether it is an accessory allowing the desktop environment to extend into
other areas.

> > Use XFCE, KDE or LXDE, all of which are old fashioned desktops during
> > the transition if you must: stop whining.
>
> How about Fluxbox? I have seen A-W-E-S-O-M-E Fluxbox themes.
>
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