[ Thanks to James
Maguire for this link. ]
“Ten months ago, GNOME 3 was released. Since then, there has
been a steady murmur of complaints, mostly about a design that
forces all users to work in the same way. And what have GNOME
developers learned from the experience?“Judging from Allan Day’s recent blog entry, ‘A New Approach to
GNOME Application Design,’ absolutely nothing.“All the complaints, all the extensions to revert to GNOME 2’s
behavior, all the interest in Linux Mint’s Cinnamon, which
recreates GNOME 2 on top of GNOME 3, and in planning new core
applications, GNOME developers continue exactly as they began. They
show no recognition that not all users think the way they do.“It’s a persistence that’s so unyielding and shows such little
ability to learn that it borders on the perverse.”