Lead Developer is predicting Gnome disaster
Posted: 01 Aug 2012, 02:15
 | Benjamin Otte the guy behind gstreamer and gtk is frustrated about Gnome. They are understaffed and people have left the project. Ubuntu went it's own (disasterous) way and the market has not responded to Gnome as they hoped. There was nobody gathering arround Gnome3, he complains;in stead there were forks like Cinnamon. Personally I might add that the Gnome devs did not respond as a lot of us (the market+Linus) hoped. Gnome is a RedHat project and if they pull out then the DE is in trouble. I guess he needed to went it. This is not the perfect time to make those kinds of predictions though.... As Linux put it: It is becoming almost usable these days, so the directon fits. And if it is true that the devs are quitting because the supporters of Gnome are scaling back then they have proven that they must be the most tone deaf "unmusical" people on the planet. |
People ran away because they FUBARED - not the other way arround. Gnome 2 was a perfect base to work on and lots of people loved it. Gnome 3 did not build on that - Blaming the "market" for that is like asking who has shiten in your pants....
But having thrown the dice - there is only one thing to do: Continue and see to that it will be a success....
