Re:Taking GNOME to the Next Level
by Xyzodiac on Sunday September 02, 2012 @12:03AM
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Gnome is very much alive, the blog entry from a month or so ago was concerning but it's still very much a lively project.
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Re:Taking GNOME to the Next Level
by PommeDeTerre on Sunday September 02, 2012 @08:52AM
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It's "alive" in the sense that there's still some activity going on, but it's shedding users, and it's becoming irrelevant.
I liken it to XFree86. While it may have been very popular and widely-used at one point, it didn't take long at all for users and developers to flee once things started looking bad.
People just haven't been happy with GNOME 3. That's a fact. And with no improvements visible on the horizon, more and more people are moving to MATE (and a few to Cinnamon).
GNOME can't survive in its current form if people and developers continue to leave it in favor of better desktop environments.
Compare the amount of GNOME developers discussing GNOME development at http://planet.gnome.org/ to the number of MATE developers discussing MATE development at http://planet.mate-desktop.org/