Re: A dock

[Yosef Or Boczko <yoseforb gnome org>]

בתאריך ש', אפר 4, 2015 בשעה 11:35 PM, alex diavatis 
<alexis diavatis gmail com> כתב:
> Hello Sri, Yosef Or Boczko
>
> > Right, so perception is not really accurate is it? :-)
> Nop, it's not accurate, but you don't need precision at this point :)
>
> > Btw, gnome-sofware not cover some distro, like ArchLinux,
> Ofc, and not only that, GNOME cannot be "measured" in any way if
> won't release "something downloadable, installable, usable as one".

Hmm, yeah, I have something like 8 DE installed, but I used GNOME 
only…

Regards,
Yosef Or Boczko

> - alex
>
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 11:25 PM, Yosef Or Boczko <yoseforb gnome org> 
> wrote:
> > Hey Alex,
> >
> > I don't know if this is what emmanuele said, it just look
> > like he said thas you can't know anything about GNOME's users scope.
> >
> > Btw, gnome-sofware not cover some distro, like ArchLinux, so it far
> > from accurate.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Yosef Or Boczko
> >
> >
> > בתאריך ש', אפר 4, 2015 בשעה 11:21 PM, alex diavatis 
> > <alexis diavatis gmail com> כתב:
> >
> > > Hello Emmanuele,
> > >
> > > How you can see metrics when GNOME hasn't a metric system? :/
> > > You can only see that by "perception" :)
> > >
> > > 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.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > https://www.bassi.io
> > > > [ ] ebassi [ gmail com]