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> they piss some people off by making radical choices No, people are not pissed off by the radicality of the choices. Stop taking people for uneducated jokers. People are pissed off because they understand the choices and do not agree with them or what they imply. Gamification, pushing apps and app stores, using the same disempowering concepts as mobile plateforms, changing design every so often for no good reason, f…
I did not interpret "radical" in the prior comment to have either a positive or negative connotation. It merely implies that some of GNOME's decisions are polarizing and a drastic departure from norms, not that people who object to those decisions are "uneducated jokers". I think it's great that a few open source projects are willing to be more radical and experimental, even if that results in pissing off a large num…
How is this not a description of gnome? I specifically argue this is my previous comment. In contrast to say plasma/xfce/lxqt which are mostly an idealized windows xp in terms of concepts, ie a frozen target, not playing catch-up.
> I did not interpret "radical" in the prior comment to have either a positive or negative connotation.
Neither do i. :)
> It merely implies that some of GNOME's decisions are polarizing and a drastic departure from norms, [..]
> I think it's great that a few open source projects are willing to be more radical and experimental [..]
This is not true, they are following quite closely the most recent trends in design. Specifically mobile platforms and quite apple-like: round squares, low-contrast thin-outlines, switch-style toggles, dock and launchpad-style app selector, simple window decoration, hamburgers, ... And this is a well-known choice, which has a history, motivations, requisites, etc. And surprise! the critics made at gnome are kind of the same (with a lower intensity) that are maid at apple or at mobile walled gardens: being dumbed-down, hiding OS concepts, discouraging any customization.
I'm really not very angry at gnome. It's fine to do this design style. I don't use it but not because of the look, in fact i like some apps they do. They just need to understand better how and why the thing they are inspired by has been maid and pay attention the the stuff that they should not reproduce, either because it doesn't make any sense in their case or because it's bad for the users.