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Idea #1504: Put more effort in polishing GNOME (hire more programmers?)

Written by mati the 29 Feb 08 at 15:32. Category: Others. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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"The only other major gaps in Ubuntu's functionality are the result of weaknesses in the GNOME desktop environment. As I mentioned in my recent GNOME 2.20 review, GNOME's file dialogs are still woefully inadequate, lacking support for multiple image thumbnail display and basic file operations like delete and rename. GNOME's feature-anemic file manager also lacks many of the more powerful user interface features found in KDE alternatives like Dolphin.

Although Ubuntu isn't directly responsible for these problems, the distribution still suffers from the defects. The Ubuntu developers could help to address these issues by encouraging upstream developers to revisit some of their design decisions. Canonical could also potentially invest some resources to resolve these problems upstream by contributing the necessary fixes. At this time, Canonical still isn't nearly as involved as Red Hat or Novell in upstream GNOME development. Usability improvements are an area where the Ubuntu development community would really be able to bring something useful back upstream."

From: We're only Human after all: a review of Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon-review.ars/5
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Written by mati the 29 Feb 08 at 15:32.
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mexlinux wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 17:29
I Agree, Open Window in GNOME is ugly and feature lacking, see:
http://bbnuke.com/kdevsgnome/2007/09/29/open-window/

mati wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 23:16
This idea is not about any particular GNOME bugs. This idea points out that Canonical isn't that involved in GNOME development as Novell or Red Hat (I might be wrong, but currently it seems to be the case).

Ubuntu inherits all GNOME bugs (including the ones that are 5 or 6 years old), but Canonical focuses on developing its own products (Ubuntu, Bazaar, Launchpad, ...).

I don't say it's wrong, but seeing things like: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/GtkFileChooser_bug_week
should make Canonical somehow ashamed. They are using others' solutions, while they should lead the usability/QA efforts.

mati wrote on the 18 Mar 08 at 10:27
Again, looking at the GTK+ Hackfest 2008 list of sponsors:
http://live.gnome.org/GTK+/Hackfest2008/
there are Red Hat and Novell, but not Canonical.

droetker wrote on the 9 Jun 08 at 08:33
Yes, but IMO Ubuntu has the best Gnome desktop and the best "justworks" experience.
I prefer KDE, but I think Canonical must not do GNOME work.
They do much polishing,a nd they make really good work at that...
So we shouldn't blame them not fixing bugs while others do in certain cases.
Canonical did fix some kernel bugs even before debian had fixed them.

mati wrote on the 10 Jun 08 at 12:44
Today, "just works" just isn't enough :)

droetker wrote on the 12 Aug 08 at 15:33
Yes, therefore I use KDE.


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