<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Avi Greenbury <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@avi.co">lists@avi.co</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">compdoc wrote:<br>
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> >Yes. But 'help' is at least as operative a word as 'free'. Free but<br></div></blockquote><div><br>- trimmed - <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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The 'proper' places to grumble about Unity is on things like Launchpad<br>
or developer mailing lists, but they do come with something of an<br>
obligation to actually say what it is that's wrong with it. In fact,<br>
all the proper places to complain about it expect a desire to fix it.<br></blockquote><div><br>Sometimes the only fix for having a tool that doesn't work for you is to take that tool out of your toolbox. 'What we had before worked and what we have now doesn't' is sometimes the only way way to describe something that is perceived as completely broken.<br>
I know the developers don't really want to hear that about something they have invested many hours and a lot of loving attention on being completely [or even mostly] unacceptable to a large [or even middling] proportion of the intended users.<br>
Better they hear it now than after Canonical is a smoking pile of rubble because all of the users have been migrated to something that more closely suits their needs. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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If you fancy just ranting, there's many ways of doing that and<br>
nobody's trying to prevent that; all that's being asked here is that you<br>
kindly refrain from doing it all over a support channel. </blockquote><div>The more overt symptoms of the electronic head cold on this list seem to be subsiding.<br></div><div>Support is a two way street. Without support there are no users. Without users there is nothing to support. <br>
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