Comments on: 3.0 – what our users think

By: danne

danne — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:30:06 +0000

I agree with 1 and 2, but not the last one, I can definitely see a good reason to evolve.

By: Stormking

Stormking — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:21:22 +0000

Can please someone tell the Zeitgeist guys that it’s a bad idea to show all your warez in a public screencast? Esspecially when your tool is about to become a part of GNOME. It can become a PR nightmare and it’s very unprofessional. It makes GNOME look like being “clicked together” by some not-too-smart highschool kids.

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:05:41 +0000

The first point seems to be the most common one I see from actual Gnome users, which is understandable – KDE4 was a big step forward, but also a very disruptive one, both for users and for developers.

Fortunately, what I’ve read so far on the Gnome 3 plans are fairly reassuring, in that much of it seems to remain evolutionary in nature – old APIs are being deprecated and removed, but code targeting current Gnome should continue to work with 3.0. So once released, it should be a lot more stable than KDE4 was, since the underlying changes aren’t anywhere near as severe.

As for UI, I’ve not looked closely enough at the new shell to really appreciate what’s changing there, but I’ll certainly be keeping an eye on progress over the next year…

By: Kiyoshi Aman

Kiyoshi Aman — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:46:01 +0000

I’m by no means an ordinary user, but I was expecting to see something about desktop-wide integration via dbus so as to make it easier to integrate various components and therefore make the system as a whole better.

(Then again, I’d also like to see Evolution go away in favour of “just an email client”, “just a contacts manager”, etc.)