Originally posted by zxy_thf
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The Gnome developers were not moving, they have replaced.
If they would have said: "Look, Gnome 2 is not what we want to do anymore, anyone who is willing can take it over, we go and make something different, under a different name." all the fuss and the flamewars wouldn't have started in the first place. We just would have another DE, living peacefully together with Gnome 2 (or at this time maybe even a Gnome 3 that actually resembles Gnome 2) and the other ones (as peacefully as they can, so only the usual flamewars between fanboys).
But they did not do that: They took the most widespread DE out there, declared it as obsolete and replaced it with something totally different, but under the same name. That was their main mistake. If you get something with a higher version number you expect an improved version of the old thing, not something totally different. The Porsche 911 was a car that got many different versions with many improvements over the time, but the basic principles are the same. If I buy such a Porsche 911 I expect to get one and not a Porsche Boxster, Cayman or Cayenne.
The KDE people also made many changes with KDE 4, but the basic principles were the same and the discussions back in the time were mostly about the number of bugs in KDE 4 and not so often about changes in the user interface.
And most of my problems can be solved by its powerful extensions (I don't know your cases so I can't make suggestions, sorry)
IMO, the best part of GS is its extension. I can overpass all GS's shortages just because of it.
IMO, the best part of GS is its extension. I can overpass all GS's shortages just because of it.
I prefer to have the functionality I need in-built to my WM, with sane developers that don't remove functionality without asking the users and then point to third parties to get the functionality back. I could without any problems (and with increase and not removal of functionality) upgrade from i3 4.2 to 4.3 to 4.4, which is the current version. Nothing broke, all works as intended and I got new features and replacements for old features, without having the old ones removed.
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