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.