The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

OK guys, I'm going to have to quit for now. :-) It takes a lot of time to write my responses to you all. I know we agree on some fundamental things about change. Just realize that we're in the business of interaction and we want to always struggle towards trying to find better ways of interaction. Just as someone would struggle to get the most performance, or be the most conservative with resources. We each have our niche.

Technically, we have a strong development platform, you can write code against it and be assured that it's not going to change underneath you and have to re-write your application. Maybe the UI is not everyone's cup of tea. We accept that. People don't like 3D interfaces, it isn't that we are using 3D, but you are using the 3D hardware and taking advantage of it. If you're using compiz, you're using the 3D hardware today. If it isn't working right now, it'll work in the next iteration. We in the Linux community know that we are always under gun when it comes to drivers for hardware manufacturers and we're playing catch up.

If anything, we're giving you a reason to hack the kernel or xorg server some more. Otherwise, what's the point? If we just did 2d what's there left to do in xorg other than bug fixes?

The desktops are driving where kernel and xorg are going today and has been for the past 10 years. Consumer devices, netbooks, embedded devices, are where the kernel is going. The desktop needs to go there too.