Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 26th Feb 2010 12:22 UTC, submitted by kragil
GNOME hacker Seth Nickell has written a lengthy PDF and accompanying blog post with a number of very interesting ideas for GNOME 3.0. I pondered putting this up on the front page, but since that usually only attracts the "It's not what I'm used to so it sucks"-crowd, I decided to put it up here. Be sure to read the blog post, the PDF, and the comments on the blog post to get the entire picture.
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2006-02-15
Thank you for deciding how I need to use my computer.
First of all, EVERY f--kING OS/DE does in one way or another enforce their own view of how you should use the computer, that's the whole point of it; if all worked exactly the same there'd be no point in even having more than one single OS and DE. Some focus on presentation of the filesystem as abstract objects, some focus on actual filesystem layout, some focus rather on presentation and manipulation of windows contents etc. Claiming that GNOME does try to make you do things in a certain way and that f.ex. OSX or KDE4 doesn't is utter bull; they all do it in their own ways.
Secondly, exactly how does these planned features hinder you from doing what you wish? All of them allow you to do the same thing as before, just in a slightly different way and providing ways of planning your actions over several days. Most of them are even customizable or can be disabled.