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Deception | Part I. Gnome Core Libs Progress

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WoGue; By Alex Diavatis 		Mail this story
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This is a response to some high traffic Tech/News Magazines that tend to present Gnome like an unpopular, un-maintain and almost abandoned project. But it is also a response to some people that are pessimistic and negative about the future of Gnome. I believe that things are much different…

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Comments (5)

djohnston ·
Yeah, I believe the Gnome developers are deceptive. No, I mean I believe people have deceived the Gnome developers. That's not it, either. I believe people have been unfairly negative about the direction(s) the Gnome developers have taken lately. And, I believe in unicorns and a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. But, I left my charts and graphs at home.

caitlyn ·
I've played with GNOME3 a bit. While it's not my choice in desktop environment it is nowhere near as bad as the Linux tech press would have you believe. It's usable for sure.
tracyanne ·
that's high praise "GNOME 3 it's uh usable"
dinotrac ·
@ta --

Well -- take it in context of KDE 4.0.

And, let's be honest -- the KDE team, by nearly all accounts, have taken an unusable pile of sludge and turned it into a pretty nice desktop.

Imagine what could be done if you start from "usable".
gus3 ·
I'll use Sawfish, XFCE, LXDE, FVWM-Crystal, or KDE 4 before I'll use GNOME 3.

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