What changed after Gnome 3?

[Gabe Ginorio]

I switched to XFCE after finding the Unity desktop unusable,

I know even Linus has switched to XFCE (read in on Google+), so that's a 
big plus in our category. Apparently, even he finds Gnome3 an impossible 
development environment.

Gabe Ginorio

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> Am Dienstag, den 18.10.2011, 12:16 -0200 schrieb Tomás Acauan Schertel:
>> I was just wondering what changed on XFCE after Gnome 3 has been
>> released.
>> I'm talking about contributors, mail lists, translators...
>> Have you guys seen any difference? Have mail list members increased?
> I can only speak for Fedora, but we were one of the first distributions
> to ship GNOME 3 in Fedora 15, so I think Fedora is indeed interesting.
>
> We have seen many people switching to Xfce. We have new contributors in
> our Xfce SIG, namely some design folks but most important way more
> testers to test new updates and report bugs.
>
> As for translators: As team lead of the German Xfce translation team I
> also noticed more translators. Currently we have two people in the
> queue.
>
>> Have download numbers changed?
> Yes.
>
> Torrent downloads of the Fedora Xfce spin according to
> http://torrent.fedoraproject.org:6969/ [1]
>
> Fedora 14: 4186 in 52 weeks
> Fedora 15: 5397 in 21 weeks
>
> Of course the number of F-X downloads dramatically decreases with F-X+1
> is released, but Fedora 15 will definitely beat F14.
>
> Regards,
> Christoph
>
>
> [1] Note: This does not include direct downloads over http or ftp)
>
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