[ Thanks to James
Maguire for this link. ]
“Since most of these efforts are not supported by the GNOME
project, they have an air of heroism. Users are insisting on having
what they want, no matter what developers decree, and I have to
admire their persistence.“However, I find myself asking: What was so great about the
GNOME 2 series? It had reached its limits a couple of years before
GNOME 3 was released and its last few releases were distinctly
minor.“Maybe as a primarily KDE user, I should keep quiet. Yet I can’t
help remembering that GNOME 2 had at least 7 annoying features that
I, for one, would be happy to see dead and buried.“So before people rush to support its revival, maybe they should
take a moment to remember all that is wrong about GNOME 2, instead
of idolizing it uncritically, as if their brains had been eaten by
something shuffling from its grave.”