My request to ubuntu developer team

[Pongo A. Pan]

On Sun, 2011-11-20 at 14:55 +0000, Liam Proven wrote:

> ITYM Mint *13.* Mint 12 uses GNOME 2.32. It is, AFAIK, the *only*
> Debian-based distro that does; Debian itself skipped from 2.30 to
> including packages from 3, e.g. the terminal.
> 
Nope, Mint 12 is the one that is still in the Release Candidate stage. 
All Gnome 3.2 with the MATE option.  MATE didn't give me anything like
a usable desktop in limited testing.  There are still some glitches in
their interesting take on gnome-shell too.  Every once in a while all
my desktops get reshuffled and some applications become unresponsive to
the point of having to open a console to kill them.  Clearly a work in
progress. I'm not using Mint 12 RC for anything important right now.

> > 4. Gnome 2 was abandoned by its developers because it was growing
> > unwieldy and hard to maintain.  It is effectively dead.  In less than 18
> > months the last Ubuntu and Mint LTS versions which used gnome 2 will
> > fall off maintenance.  Nothing new will be developed for gnome 2, and
> > applications aimed at gnome 3 will not work on it because of naming
> > conflicts.
> >
> > 5. Michael Jackson and gnome 2 are still dead, and pretty soon the
> > traditional desktop computer will be too for most users.  Get over it.
> > Use XFCE, KDE or LXDE, all of which are old fashioned desktops during
> > the transition if you must: stop whining.
> 
> Excellent post, excellent comment. I wholeheartedly agree.
> 
Tks.

OMG Ubuntu has the result of their (admittedly unscientific) poll on
desktop use up this morning (afternoon to you guys).  About 50% using
unity, which is about what I expected.  There's always fierce opposition
to change and those are the people we hear from.  

The deeply conservative streak in human nature has always amazed me.  A
simple example: this country would save $5.5 (american) billion over the
next 30 years if we withdrew all the dollar banknotes and substituted
coins, mostly because coins last longer.  Admittedly, this would cause
some initial problems with cash drawers and the like but nothing like
the difficulties with decimal conversion from LSD in the UK or to the
Euro in Europe.  Innate conservative dislike of change prevents it.

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pongo pan
Sun, 20 Nov 2011 07:34:49 -0800
Aurelius up 11:46, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.03, 0.05
Linux 3.0.0-12-generic
Ubuntu 11.10, unity 4.24.0