GNOME community is not a "community that makes great softwares" anymore, but a team belongs to Red Hat. Why do I say? Just look at your GNOME softwares' about dialog. It may give you much information.
I just moved to FreeBSD because I love BSD License. I hate the GPL license so I'd like to leave the Linux world. Looking more, I still use Emacs and GNOME because I really love them. No softwares can replace them in my heart.
At that time, I'm a GNOME fan. I really love it and I want it to be greater.
But things changed after GNOME 3's release.
GNOME 3 is a well-designed desktop though many features are not implemented and some designs are still bad. That time I'm still using Fedora and I'm waiting it for a very long time. GNOME 3 really give me a suprise and I fell in love with it. I've never looked at any other desktop environments because I believe GNOME is the best. I think give it more time, the lost features will be found! A small difference, I didn't find a thing like gnome-about.
Later, I heard that GNOME is planning to drop BSDs support. I feel very afraid and I couldn't believe what I'd seen, really. I hope GNOME not to do that because I still remember GNOME said "GNOME is a desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems" in gnome-about. Oh, dear, GNOME has dropped gnome-about. So this is not an important decision.
Just, just a bit more later, I've moved to FreeBSD. (in fact, more earier I've tried but gived up because of unworkable wireless card) I enjoy using it, a great integrated operating system. I've seen somebody ran GNOME3 and GnomeShell so I'm not fearing about that.
And after trying, trying and trying, I found this unworkable so I searched around the network. And mezz@ finally said, "no idea when it'll be merged into ports tree". I even filed a bug on GNOME Bugzilla. But till then I believed, GNOME has no hard work about portability. As a software developer, I value the portability. And one of the RatDB's goals is "perfect portability" [1]. KDE even has a FreeBSD team for FreeBSD portability. But, why GNOME does NOT?
No. I've got no ideas.
[1] Only for POSIX systems. Why not Windows? Because the full name of Windows' PE is "Portable Executable". But it's not portable at all.
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If GNOME continues to be overbearing, I may leave the GNOME world. However, I really love GNOME-Shell. One day I may create a new world, that's a new GNOME, but for PC, and human beings.
I spent some time on this post. If you're wondering why, just imagine what/who you love cheats you. Anybody would not love this feeling, including me.
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