Why GNOME’s Got it Right
“Last week, some developers disagreeing with the direction of
the GNOME Project decided to create what appears to be the
beginning of a fork of the project–GoneME. Like many from KDE
Project and elsewhere in the community, GoneME’s major complaints
boil down to what has proven to be GNOME’s most controversial move:
simplifying the user interface. While naysayers, including the
GoneME developers, seem to feel that the simplification of the
interface, undertaken with the encouragement of such GNOME leaders
as Havoc Pennington of Red Hat, is actually just ‘dumbing down’ the
interface, I think these critics are actually missing the point
completely…”
Stirring the GNOME Fires
“I’m just an aspiring writer. Most of my stuff will never see
the light of day, outside a small circle of friends. When I write
for that tiny, narrow audience, I often take a good bit of license
and engage in hyperbole, dramatic overstatement, and loads of
sarcasm. I keep asking when the folks at W3C are going to include
an attribute for sarcasm, because most people won’t detect it
unless they know the writer. My blog entry about the birth of
GoneME was full of noise, and bit of substance thrown in for good
measure…”
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