Re:GNOME (et al): Rotting In Threes
by curiousdannii on Thursday November 08, 2012 @08:01AM
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What's going on? Do the GNOME devs think they have a mandate to reduce the world's electricity consumption?
It does appear to be the case.
What amazes me is with all their infrastructure and libraries was that they never made a word processor from their own framework.
AbiWord was fairly close to this, and I believe it was part of Gnome Office at one point (along with Gnumeric, which was a pretty good spreadsheet app for a while).
The case I have in mind is the lack of an option to leave the screen on even when inactive for a long time, because the developers want to discourage that power usage pattern (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647828). Typically users do not need to leave a screen always on, so the default behaviour should not be to leave the screen always on, but if a user needs to leave a screen always on for whatever reason, why should they have to install an extension?
It is the Gnome designers' job to design the system to their taste, but it is not their job to try to influence the users.