“‘Project GoneME is the first attempt to try moving the GNOME
Desktop into a new direction. As a long years contributor and
ex-GNOME Foundation member I got quite unhappy with the new
direction that some core decision takers have chosen without
further feedback with the community or their participants. Even if
I do see that plenty of things that got changed in GNOME does
indeed make sense but some other decisions have upset quite a lot
of people including me and there was no possibility to bring these
problems up on the GNOME Mailinglists or the IRC channel without
getting yourself trapped into ugly discussions and slandering. The
unfair behaviour caused the result that a lot of people changed the
Desktop to KDE or simply switched to something entirely
different…'”