What keeps you from using gtkd or dlangui

Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Oct 5 23:25:38 PDT 2015


On Mon, 2015-10-05 at 21:05 +0000, bachmeier via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 
[…]
> This was one of the more extreme cases though:
> 
> - GNOME 3 was very different from GNOME 2. It had no appeal to 
> their existing users.

Because they hadn't tried the new way, they just wanted the old way. I
was in that camp.

> - GNOME users were told that GNOME 2 was dead so they had to 
> "upgrade".

Nothing wrong with that per se, but the GNOME team definitely failed on
almost all counts of marketing and customer care.

> - There was little advance warning that it would be so different.

Not entirely true. There was a good 6 months warning.

> These factors combined to make the vast majority of GNOME users 
> very upset and very vocal. I'm a happy MATE user today but I had 
> to switch to KDE for a while until that became a realistic option.

Not vast majority by any means. Many very vocal people yes.

I now really like GNOME3 and wouldn't want to switch back to GNOME2 or
anything remotely like it.

I do wish though that the GNOME team would learn better marketing and
customer care.

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Russel.
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