Just another reason why Gnome 3 is such a huge pain in the posterior
It's not enough that they created the Gnome 3 shell which is a serious pain to use. It's not enough that everything already got greatly dumbed down, but they're still axing features left and right for now good reason. But hey, at least the developers are super-helpful and super-nice when replying to people asking about the removed features XD
Wow, this couldn't have been handled in a more helpful and more friendly way XD
Of course this caused a big torrent of comments, like e.g.:
Good grief... Gnone 2 was ugly, but it at least had a tiny shred of usability. Gnome 3 already started out on a very bad footing, being a huge pain to use - which is why Canonical hurriedly came up with Unity, to alleviate matters a bit. As it happens when you hurriedly come up with stuff, it was of course very buggy. At least they had enough sense to use Qt for it rather than crappy Gtk.
Now, with every passing release, Gnome 3 is only becoming worse and worse all the time, and the developers become more arrogant all the time, with no improvement in sight.
Thus, I find myself wondering... why are so many people still using this atrocious Gnome 3? Did long years of Windumb usage make them hardcore masochists? Do they think that an OS (or desktop environment) has to be a pain to use? Do they like being nannied by arrogant developers which tell them which features they may use, and how, and it reminds them of "good old Windows"? I really can't understand it.
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Bug 698544 Background configuration is missing in terminal profile editor Eduard Valiauka [reporter] 2013-04-22 07:18:29 UTC Steps: 1. Open gnome terminal 2. Go to Edit -> Profile Preferences Actual result: Background configuration tab is missing. It was present in 3.6 version, please return it back.
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Christian Persch [gnome-terminal developer] 2013-04-22 09:34:26 UTC No. *closed as wontfix*
Of course this caused a big torrent of comments, like e.g.:
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piruthiviraj natarajan 2013-04-23 14:50:23 UTC Just a No and closing it as resolved and wontfix is bad attitude. no wonder why gnome deserves the flak.
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Peter 2013-04-23 19:22:05 UTC It is a major feature for me and every graphical terminal-emulator offers this. The complete development around compositing and AIGLX was focused on enabling real transparency, especially for terminal-emulators. It not okay to answer with "No". It is not okay to remove such a feature silently, without discussing this in public. It not okay to put this not in the release notes of GNOME 3.8. And is not okay to destroy the great work of so many developers. GNOME 3 is dying a little with every removed feature. But rude developers kill the community!
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For the last 3 years gnome has been primarily involved in features removing contest and they have been citing various bogus reasons and one of them is better code maintenance. This time its the terminal getting some features removed and if you see evince it has lost some features too.
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The general problem of GNOME: The developers of GNOME tend to believe the project is criticized because the people doesn't like the new GNOME-SHELL. The developers think it is necessary to iron out the glitches and while GNOME3 is getting more mature, the press and user will honor the work. Smiliar to KDE4. But the users are not criticizing the GNOME-Shell! They cirticize the removal of features with every new GNOME 3.x release-cycle. It is not getting better. It is getting worse! Failures: * no communication between developers and users (there is none, no official forum, no response to user critic) * permanent removal of features * wrong believe that removing options and features lead to a clean and well usable design of applications * no official strategy, no official plan for features/changes for next release Nautilus in 3.6 was a perfect example: * The developers ignored every warning from the userbase * They removed split-pane and find-as-you-type, and replaced the later one with a slow unintuitive search * User left GNOME, migrated to XFCE, fork like MINT or stay with 3.4 (like Ubuntu, which is also a fork) GNOME 3.8 has removed transparency support? * For what reason?! GNOME 3.0: * removed many options, e.g. especially "LID-CLOSED" on laptops or "leaving message on login screen" or "configuration tool for gdm" Kidding: Will 3.10 remove tabs from Nautilus or Epiphany? Why everyone who is not familiar with dconf has to install gnome-tweak-tool?
Now, with every passing release, Gnome 3 is only becoming worse and worse all the time, and the developers become more arrogant all the time, with no improvement in sight.
Thus, I find myself wondering... why are so many people still using this atrocious Gnome 3? Did long years of Windumb usage make them hardcore masochists? Do they think that an OS (or desktop environment) has to be a pain to use? Do they like being nannied by arrogant developers which tell them which features they may use, and how, and it reminds them of "good old Windows"? I really can't understand it.
but of course that is 100% subjective. It took Ubuntu's making it less ugly 
for it to be palatable and friendlier.
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