Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!usenet.ukfsn.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Ubunto Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:17:26 +0000 (UTC) Organization: UK Free Software Network Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <9fovtmF8gaU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.45.235.129 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: localhost.localdomain 1318724246 11793 84.45.235.129 (16 Oct 2011 00:17:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@localhost.localdomain NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:17:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.135 (Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea; GIT 30dc37b master) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:8840 On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:45:09 -0400, B1ll Gat3s wrote: > On 15/10/2011 12:48 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: >> According to Gnome.org, there is no 3.3 except as a bugfix/development/ >> unstable version. The next major release will be 3.4 which seems to >> have a roadmap full of builtins that IMO should be applications. >> >> I get the strong impression that the project is totally fixated on >> shiny,shiny and thinks that usability is boring. > > Don't they eat their own dogfood over at Gnome HQ? You'd hope so, but it doesn't look like it: if they did, surely they'd have realised how much slower G3 is to use than G2 and done something about it. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |