Comments on: What do I do as Executive Director of GNOME?

By: Dread Knight

Dread Knight — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:01:51 +0000

If you want to get rid of mono, just use KDE.
I wish Gnome would just ‘die’, gnome 3 is not doing very well with it’s design compared to KDE4. This is coming from an usability expert / graphic designer / open source fanatic and advocate.
I know it sounds harsh, but KDE4 is way ahead and has a solid design, but most of the applications are ‘krappy’.
We don’t need 10 file managers for an OS that has 2% estimated market share for the desktop. The freedom of choice (at least for now) should be getting away from commercial/closer source stuff to foss.
But regarding freedom of choice within the desktop environment, KDE4 allows you to build your desktop as you wish, it’s sort of like an easy to use/customize toolkit, while on the other hand, Gnome 3 is designed very stiff and lacks freedom and customization.
A single DE means more and better advertising, less bugs, more features, faster and more safer applications AND less code duplication and flame wars. Atm linux really looks like a child having all sorts of personality issues, sort of like in that movie “Identity”.
Anyway, my guess is that ‘gnomes’ won’t give up and ‘try to come up with something better and better’, so the only thing to do for KDE4 is to become better and attract more developers and users as well…. Hopefully by the time i’ll die most people will take linux more seriously for the desktop and devices…
What can i say, keep up the good work, but as i see gnome 3 going for right now, it just might be the end of Gnome series. I’m aware my post might hurt feelings, i like Gnome and I use it, but regarding the future… not very sure I’ll keep doing that.

By: jeff Bailey

jeff Bailey — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:39:51 +0000

Awesome diagram. I admit I thought the broom was a fork and wondered if you’d been hired to fork Gnome…

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:32:15 +0000

One very challenging task is building the bridge between kde and gnome teams. There is a lot of duplication of effort between kde – gnome teams and very less co-operation.
Almost every tool has a gnome version and kde version…
GNU/Linux desktop is like traveling on a boat with two people rowing it in their own way…its just going nowhere !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AmstelRiverRowing.jpg

By: Zenwalker

Zenwalker — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:10:42 +0000

+1,
Ya push Mono away. Its a virus to linux a gift from MicroVell.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:22:27 +0000

> Or at the very least disease like Mono
+1

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:33:19 +0000

> Or at the very least disease like Mono
+1

By: Randall Schwartz

Randall Schwartz — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:24:19 +0000

>What would you like to see me do?
Get rid of poverty and famine.
Or at the very least disease like Mono.

By: Mårten

Mårten — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:42:01 +0000

Great!

By: Zenwalker

Zenwalker — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:38:58 +0000

Wow i wish i could ask my boss what he does.. :p lol that would seriously make him wanna kick me out some whow
Any ways, stormy, your one of the inspiration person for the female world to enter FOSS.
And as a Gnome head, your doing good. I really liked your dramatic representation of what u do.
Thanks and keep rocking.

By: Don Marti

Don Marti — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:47:02 +0000

I’m wondering if the upcoming joint KDE/GNOME conference would be willing to hold a session on combining the two projects’ HIG documents into one. I’m sure there will be some “agree to disagree” parts but why not save the work, and have the differences available to help people think about how to surprise users less?