WEBlog -- Wouter's Eclectic Blog

Tue, 04 Oct 2005

Gnome followup

Funny how people start to get all defensive if people start giving their opinion about software they like very much, and that opinion is quite negative. I've had a rather high number of comments on my blog, on IRC, and have seen some in other blog posts on Planet Debian, too.

For clarity: I didn't claim that the Gnome people need to do this or that; I just explained why I dislike it. If people are interested in my opinion, great; if not, too bad. I couldn't care less. After all, I didn't marry Gnome or anything—I used to be an Enlightenment user for three years before I started using Gnome, and switched to ion now after using Gnome for less than a year.

And yet, so many comments... it would seem that at the very least, the Gnome policy to constantly hide away features which used to be there is quite controversial.