Re: My first impression and goodbye

[Philippe Moutarlier <philippe enit fr>]

May I just add some personnal comments about this thread and its starting point.

I read the starting message, and I felt very sorry for the guy writting it. 
I know how to program. I know how to compile and how to debug. I use mostly basic shell, emacs 
and gnus. And sometime, I ask myself : do I really need Gnome ? Well, maybe not. In some 
case, I definitely would say no (I would not exchange gnus against balsa, for example)

But it's cool ! Looks great, and maybe one day, some people who do not have my knowledge 
will be able to use it easily too. Peolple who do not know how to setup gnus will appreciate Balsa a lot and this is good. People who do not know and don't want to run a debugger on a third party software for example. I know a lot of them ...

Now, how can some people both 

- scare people away by answering a little bit rudely to their frustration instead of making them fell a little bit more comfortable 

- feel "threatened" that those people are actually going to try something which will make feel better

???

I had the same feeling going to the WindowMaker list. I asked a question the first day. Went away for the w.e. Came back : 30 messages insulting me (litterally). But no answer. So yes, I quit the list and if I am still using WindowMaker, it gave me a strong desire to go to  something else.


I that what we want to get with Gnome ?? Don't we want to get "unexperimented" users to come to it ? 

Look at how Miguel answers to people frustration. Always nice and useful. And I think this is the way to go (IMHO)

Philippe     


"James M. Cape" <jcape@jcinteractive.com> writes:

> Sri Ramkrishna wrote:
> > 
> > > > He's absolutely correct that a 1.0 version of a program should be at
> > > > least functional.  Most new users will give up LONG before this guy did.
> > >
> > > Only Gnome-core and Gnome-libs are v.1.0 everything else is still in
> > > development. Gmc, E, E-conf, Control-Center, everything. Use at your own
> > > risk. Period.
> > 
> > Isn't Control-Center marked as 1.0?  So are the rest of the Gnome-*
> > packages.
> > 
> >         sri
> > 
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Sri Ramkrishna         /|\ Unix is very user friendly, its just very picky
> 
> Yes, as I stated, I was mistaken. I thought it was still in .99.x. Gmc,
> E, and E-conf are not, however, and that is where the majority of the
> original problems originated.
> 
>     Jim Cape
>     http://www.jcinteractive.com
> 
>     "All animals are equal, some animals
>      are more equal than others."
>          -- George Orwell, Animal Farm
> 
> 
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