Linus on Gnome 3.2

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Fri Dec 2 18:11:56 UTC 2011


On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 11:19:57AM -0500, Giles Orr wrote:
> Last night Linus Torvalds posted this on Google+:
> 
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> Hey, with gnome-tweak-tool and the dock extension, gnome-3.2 is
> starting to look almost usable.
> 
> Now I just hope those things become part of the standard gnome shell
> setup and made available in the regular "system config" thing rather
> than hidden off. Sure, make them default to off if you want that
> "clean default", but make them easy to find and part of the standard
> install.
> 
> Or would that be too close to "Ok, we admit we were wong" and thus not
> politically acceptable?
> 
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> 
> That's the full post.
> 
> I've heard a lot of unkind things about Gnome 3.2, and Linus has been
> one of its best known detractors.  Given that his opinions are based
> on pragmatism rather than zealotry (Stallman anyone?), I'm always
> interested in what he has to say.  It'll be interesting to see how
> this plays out.

I had gnome 3 pop up by default on a login on a new setup.  I gave up
finding anything after 5 minutes and logged in with kde instead.

Some ideas are just not that good and gnome 3 is one of them.

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