Linus, Gnome 3, and *lots* of Xfce comments

[Genghis Khan]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 05:07:44 -0700 (PDT)
sergiocmailbox-xfce at yahoo.com.br wrote:

> 
> 
> --- Em ter, 5/6/12, Maximilien Noal <noal.maximilien at gmail.com>
> escreveu:
> 
> > De: Maximilien Noal <noal.maximilien at gmail.com>
> > Assunto: Linus, Gnome 3, and *lots* of Xfce comments
> > Para: "Xfce general discussion list" <xfce at xfce.org>
> > Data: Terça-feira, 5 de Junho de 2012, 9:00
> > Hello,
> > 
> > https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/UkoAaLDpF4i
> > 
> > The amount of positive comments about Xfce on this page is
> > too damn high. ;-)
> > 
> > Meme quotes aside, comments like "Xfce saved my marriage"
> > made me
> > smile, so I wanted to share it.
> > 
> > (I hope I'm on the right mailing list for that)
> > 
> > Cheers !
> > 
> > PS: Linus is back on Gnome 3 now, but bashes it ? Why
> > change, then ?
> > I'm a little confused.
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> It's not that GNOME 3 is a complete fail, obviously. It's mostly
> their attitude towards users, which are very much disregarded. For
> instance, the idea of pressing 'Alt' at the shutdown menu to change
> the 'should be poweroff' option from 'Suspend' to 'Poweroff' is a
> good design decision in terms of uncluttering the menu. But ignoring
> that most people would have 'Poweroff' as the main item and 'Suspend'
> as the alternate one and refusing to even add an option in gsetings
> to revert that order out of pure childish hurt pride, doesn't really
> deserve much respect (deserves pity, of course).
> 

In my opinion, the more I am looking into GNOME3 and KDE4, the more
this whole fiasco smells like another fraud of planned obsolescence.
Try the latest release of the MATÉ Desktop Environment, it is, to my
surprise, way much faster than GNOME2.

It does look to me that some of the major player in the computer
industry are paying for the developers of GNOME and KDE to make
unreliable products. The MATÉ contributors are less than the
contributors of GNOME!


The Light Bulb Conspiracy (2010) https://social.mathaba.net/p/9530

http://vimeo.com/search?q=The+Light+Bulb+Conspiracy
	Planned Obsolescence - The throw away life style
	Pyramids of Waste (aka The Light Bulb Conspiracy)


I truly hope that Gtk3 will not incline too much to the direction of
planned obsolescence.

Anyway, I am loyal to the Xfce environment which is matching to my
personal point of view, though Xfce should have another and a more sexy
icon as a complement, in addition to the current mouse, for better
marketing, don't you think so too?