[CS-FSLUG] OfB.biz: Why GNOME's Got it Right

[Timothy R. Butler]

Last week, some developers disagreeing with the direction of the GNOME 
Project decided to create what appears to be the beginning of a fork of 
the project -- GoneME. Like many from KDE Project and elsewhere in the 
community, GoneME's major complaints boil down to what has proven to be 
GNOME's most controversial move: simplifying the user interface. While 
naysayers, including the GoneME developers, seem to feel that the 
simplification of the interface, undertaken with the encouragement of 
such GNOME leaders as Havoc Pennington of Red Hat, is actually just 
"dumbing down" the interface, I think these critics are actually 
missing the point completely. Read the rest of my commentary to find 
out why I think GNOME's got it right.

http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=318

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Timothy R. Butler       Universal Networks      www.uninet.info
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