Re: A dock

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 1:21 PM, alex diavatis <alexis diavatis gmail com> wrote:
> Hello Emmanuele,
>
> How you can see metrics when GNOME hasn't a metric system? :/
> You can only see that by "perception" :)

Right, so perception is not really accurate is it? :-)  However, guess
what?  When we finally have appstream and gnome software fully
functioning then we might indeed get some idea what the market is
like.

sri

> On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 11:17 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi;
> >
> > On 4 April 2015 at 20:37, alex diavatis <alexis diavatis gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > > While I think we can discuss whether the presence of a dock could
> > > > ensure gaining users, I also don't think GNOME needs to "win back"
> > > > users in the first place.
> > >
> > > What that's supposed to mean? GNOME doesn't need to get users back?
> >
> > I'd object to the point of getting "users back" until I see a metric
> > that gives me the number of a) Linux users and b) GNOME users before
> > and after any imaginary point in time (usually people that say "get
> > users back" use the 3.0 release, missing the larger point of "when
> > Ubuntu switched to Unity" one), but I'll just say: getting users back
> > from what? Why do we need to convert the small pool of Linux users,
> > when a larger pool of non-Linux users exists to be tapped?
> >
> > In any case, my main issue was the argument that a dock is not going
> > to be a point of contention when a person decides whether or not to
> > use GNOME.
> >
> > Ciao,
> >  Emmanuele.
> >
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>
>
>
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