[Wylug-discuss] Gnome 3 Review

[David Holden]

On 21/03/12 15:17, Simon Brown wrote:
> At Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:56:15 +0000,
> David Holden wrote:
>> Personally, I've kind of got used to gnome 3, after tweaking with
>> extensions. From a business user point of view however, the disregard
>> for current users from both KDE and Gnome have us questioning where we
>> go on the desktop top in the next year. I've even heard talk of
>> returning to Windows from some round here.
> 
> Windows would seem a little rash as isn't it about to go through a big
> change as well with Windows 8?


It's a good point.



> 
> It looks like the public appetite for tablets and touch based
> interfaces is only going to grow in the near future. It seems to have
> revealed the fact that most people spend much more time consuming than
> they do creating. 
> 
> I think the Gnome 3, Unity and windows 8 critics are being somewhat
> short sighted. Keyboard users, such as myself, are soon going to find
> themselves as a minority amongst computer users. Perhaps we are
> already. FOSS user interfaces do their development in full public
> view, they're not going to get right first time. If they don't make
> any changes, they'll soon find themselves irrelevant. There may well
> be more touch based phones in use today than there are keyboard driven
> computers.  


The thing is I'm not talking about keyboard users here, I can adapt, I'm
talking about our general desktop users - they don't like change.

I think this will apply to windows changes also.


> 
> I think we should reserve judgement until MS bring out the first
> service pack for Windows 8 (tablet/ARM edition). By then I think the
> experimental phase can be regarded as over.
> 
> Simon  
> 

-- 
Dr David Holden. (dh at iucr.org)