Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode Fairly Quickly”

Re:Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode... by zzzcpan on Friday June 28, 2019 @02:19PM (#20307308)

> Most users want a UI from $CURRENT_YEAR, not one that makes them think of Spice Girls songs and AOL Instant Messenger.

This is rather incorrect assumption. UIs is not something people want, it's something people want to not to get in their way, i.e. the opposite of wanting. And to your example modern Gnome is actually worse than AOL times UIs, it breaks a lot of expectations users used to Mac or Windows have, with proper menus not hidden away and better workflows.

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Re:Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode... by afiori on Saturday June 29, 2019 @04:23AM (#20311445)

I actually often want UI to be beautiful. That can take many forms, "vintage" included.

> And to your example modern Gnome is actually worse than AOL times UIs

Totally true, the amount of missing functionality and weird behavior is huge. Yet I do prefer it to KDE as it is in practice more pleasant to look at.

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