Dne 29.11.2013 14:18, Lennart Poettering napsal(a):
On Wed, 27.11.13 19:18, Matthew Miller (mattdm@fedoraproject.org) wrote:
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 12:01:25AM +0100, drago01 wrote:
I don't think we should aim at the general user, because not only is that nebulous, it has all of those same problems.
That happens to be what every successful desktop (and mobile) OS have been doing. They built a system that is generally useful, they don't really care whether you are a developer, graphics designer, gamer or whatever.
If the operating system works for the general user case it works for pretty much everything else (it is just a matter of installing the right applications / tools).
An operating system designed for a specific user type is doomed to end up being a niche OS.
We're always going to be a niche OS, at least on the desktop -- which is, itself, an increasingly small niche. But, let me restate my initial point. It's great if we can be totally awesome for everyone, and sure, it's fine to try for it. *And*, within that subset of everyone, there are some people we want to make particularly happy.
One subset that I've identified is the one I mentioned -- the sysadmin who runs RHEL or Fedora server systems and has Fedora on his or her desktop. The entire LISA conference was _full_ of these people. As I mentioned in the earlier thread, they don't all use Gnome, but they do use Fedora, and very well _could_ use Gnome if we tailored the experience to their needs.
I think it's completely fair to say that previously, we've responded to feedback from this demographic with "well, you're not a general user -- you're a weird special case". What I want is to acknowledge that even after all these years of that, this is still our loyal base, and to make every one of those feel like we are actually directly listening to their concerns (even if they can't all be addressed).
This is just well disguised anti-GNOME FUD. I don't think this is useful at all. You are just trying to turn GNOME into what you personally think that GNOME should be, suggesting it was in some way accepted truth that GNOME would be awful in its current state for admin and technical folks. But that's not accepted truth, that's just your personal opinion. And I certainly disagree with it, and so do many
That's what _I_ want out of a Fedora Workstation product. If there are other classes of user where the same sort of feeling applies as well, let's include those too. Maybe that *is* developers, although as expressed, I'm skeptical. Maybe it's the maker/designer market -- at least the Creative Commons / Free Culture segment of it. Those aren't areas where I have a huge amount of history, interaction, or feedback from users. I talk about the sysadmin case because there I *do* have those things and I'm quite sure of myself.
Is this a matter of just installing the right applications and tools? Maybe. It also involves being responsive to feedback, and testing changes with that audience to make sure that they actually make the experience better as intended, rather than becoming an irritation.
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Without GNOME you wouldn't have standardized IPC on Linux (I mean, seriously fuck it, which other general purpose OS has no sane standardized IPC to start with?), there wouldn't be sane device management, nothing. The "base OS" people of Linux couldn't get here shit together to get this infrastructure in place, so the GNOME guys had to do it instead.
You would have, I know this FAQ is really outdated but still, there was a DCOP IPC mechanism before DBUS got created and which KDE also adopted later on: http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-faq.html#dcop
<quote> D-Bus is intentionally pretty similar to DCOP, and can be thought of as a "DCOP the next generation" suitable for sharing between the various open source desktop projects. </quote>