{"id":8344,"date":"2012-11-22T17:25:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T23:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8344"},"modified":"2012-11-22T17:25:11","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T23:25:11","slug":"gnome-et-al-rotting-in-threes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8344","title":{"rendered":"GNOME (et al): Rotting In Threes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I have never gotten into the KDE vs GNOME debates, so this is not GNOME bashing, nor, as you\u2019ll soon see, are these systemic development problems limited to GNOME. Yet what <strong>I\u2019m hearing is that with GNOME v3 the goal is to promote their \u201cbrand\u201d and make it dominant<\/strong>, in part by greatly limiting what users can change on their own systems, and partly by breaking or simply removing whatever support they\u2019re no longer promoting as \u2018The Way\u2019. The reach of this selfish and narrow-sighted development goes beyond GNOME and affects GTK apps in general.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/igurublog.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/05\/gnome-et-al-rotting-in-threes\/\">GNOME (et al): Rotting In Threes \u00ab IgnorantGuru&#8217;s Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What follows is a sampling of quotes from various places and assorted devs which paint a picture of a <strong>growing culture of anti-user, conformist philosophies<\/strong>. There\u2019s a bit of text to review here, but I think it\u2019s worth it to hear what GNOME devs have to say about their intentions and goals, in their own words, and what others are saying about that!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never gotten into the KDE vs GNOME debates, so this is not GNOME bashing, nor, as you\u2019ll soon see, are these systemic development problems limited to GNOME. Yet what I\u2019m hearing is that with GNOME v3 the goal &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8344\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287],"tags":[348,38,283],"class_list":["post-8344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interfaces","tag-desktop-environment","tag-gnome","tag-tech-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8345,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344\/revisions\/8345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}