The most one will be ‘stagnation’ situation in this 2.18 release. In fact the best part of the desktop is being done by small individual projects where gnome as a whole should be doing the most part of the job.

As I see it, there were a lot of developers and engineers developing the critical parts of the desktop to build gnome. Now most of them are done and nobody cares.

I will just take an example, the panel applet window list and his resizing problem. It’s there since … the beginning?

Personnal Message to the gnome developpers: _please_ do not reinvent a new desktop ala KDE4 (plasma, etC..) and ignoring current bugs or desktop flaws. Please fix the desktop, and make it rocks (and rock solid). The gnome desktop is an excellent base, we need to fix the most critical parts.

And that’s why I’m all with your point of view Ronald.

I always liked GNOME simplicity but it’s website is disorganized. It should be homogeneous, keeping it’s simplicity and clarity.

I’m waiting to the new website and see what can be done with it. Please, take a look in a few months and post a comment like this again… I think then should be easy to make any page needed and keep all organized.

In the other hand we have the bugs of some essential applications for the desktop. New times should come with the stabilization of GStreamer and Telepathy, I expect that GNOME will be up to date with them.

I think that GNOME should make a way to manage bug reports and make easy the life of an user. When a bug is filed, a lot of needless messages are sent back to the reporter. It can make the user not send any more reports.

I want them to be unvapoured _for the larger community_ and become reality, but that has to be done by their respective developer communities. Showing some cool prototype that does something technically significant (e.g. playback Ogg/Theora or allow a one-on-one webcamchat with CVS versions and an unknown protocol) with no functional relevance (since outside the test environment, nobody is going to be able to use this) is cool, but not useful in the long run. Some of us want to watch Windows Media in the browser, and we want MSN / iChat webcamchats.

So let me state that clearly: some of the GNOME technologies need to be less vapouPRware and more real. No more excuses, just do it.

(I agree with the website, I hope it’ll become very cool when it’s on – but it has to be on!)

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]]> http://blogs.gnome.org/rbultje/2007/04/11/gnome-218-underwhelmed/comment-page-1/#comment-155 Michael Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/rbultje/2007/04/11/gnome-218-underwhelmed/#comment-155 Well I don't feel that 2.18 was such a letdown but some of your points are very valid (and sad!), mostly the missing DVD support in gstreamer is a huge thing. Totem even uses gstreamer by default now and I really wonder why I have to use mplayer to watch DVDs now... Well I don’t feel that 2.18 was such a letdown but some of your points are very valid (and sad!), mostly the missing DVD support in gstreamer is a huge thing. Totem even uses gstreamer by default now and I really wonder why I have to use mplayer to watch DVDs now…

I was also uninpressed about the release notes, but it seems Vincent Untz and Lucas Rocha want to tackle this, with the Roadmap Gang.
http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap/Process