Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 26th Nov 2007 21:18 UTC, submitted by JCooper
Get out your popcorn, boys and girls, this is geek soap opera at its finest. "Jeff Waugh is a psychotic failure, obstructive and destructive. He is poisonous people." GNOME's Murray Cumming blogging on Jeff Waugh, all in relation to the board elections. Cumming first detailed what he deemed good candidates, he then went on to lambast the only bad candidate (according to Cumming): Waugh. "His behavior is far beyond the acceptable and displays contempt for the people in GNOME who actually do work. We've tolerated it too long, lost several high-level contributors because of it, slowed down the work of other contributors, and made their work unpleasant. That cost is too high, and we receive almost nothing in return. Jeff Waugh's only aim is self-publicity and any responsibilities in GNOME are just a way to achieve that. As long as his abysmal destructive misuse of those responsibilities is tolerated then he will happily continue clinging to symbolic authority regardless of the effects on GNOME. He seems driven by paranoia that people seek his downfall, but he is not driven by any need to do the job. Inevitably, people soon do want him to get out of the way." The story continues on Planet GNOME, with people supporting Cumming, but also a lot of people demanding a retraction. Don't kill the messenger. Update: Waugh's response. "There's a layer of truth to some of what Murray has said, but his shockingly exaggerated, hateful message is not intended to resolve or heal. Murray does not accept or credit my commitment or contributions to the project, and he has sought to denigrate, disenfranchise and discredit me consistently over the years... Though this is obviously the loudest and most hurtful attempt."
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Couldn't have put it better myself. IMO Gnome has a lot to answer for - for the lack of Linux uptake, just take a look at all the complaints on Ubuntu's forums, conservatively 75% of them relate to Gnome. Then look at the wish lists for every new Ubuntu release and 80% of the requests relate to Gnome in one fashion or another.
First of all I would love to know where you pulled those numbers from, thin air or your ass? Second, it's no wonder that most Ubuntu users have complaints against GNOME after all it is THE user interface in Ubuntu. Even if it is really a backend problem, a library problem, or even a kernel issue it's going to manifest itself in the GUI for most Ubuntu users. No offense to their users but there is probably a larger proportion of newbs using Ubuntu than any other distro. That's what usually happens when you're the most popular distro.
The project needs new blood and new direction if it wants any chance at surviving the next few years as KDE 4 moves forward. And No, that stupid Online desktop bullshit isn't gunna cut it I'm afraid, that's my honest opinion anyway.
I'm a little biased here because I use GNOME everyday but I guess that illustrates my next point. GNOME is very usable today, for everyday use. What exactly is wrong with it? As far as the desktop paradigm goes it pretty much does what all the others do. It has its quirks but so does KDE, Windows, and OSX. I don't think any of them are really that much more capable than the others, just different. I prefer the GNOME way of doing things and no whiz-bang desktop interface is going to sway me. At this point it's going to take a UI paradigm shift for me to switch desktops, something like lowfat.