Notes on the Future of GNOME: Problems and Questions
Ok, now that I’ve already made my point about our great achievements, it’s time to talk about the big questions.
One the most important steps on the process of finding a good solution for a problem is to define the problem. People have different expectations and perspectives about GNOME and hence they define the “decadence” and, consequently, the possible solutions, in different ways.
First of all, a more fundamental question: do we have a problem? We already have a great desktop environment for the current standards and demands. So, what is “wrong” here? From what I can see, the problem can be defined in terms of three aspects: Audience, Position and Process. All those have something to do with the fact that GNOME is getting “out of sync” with… something. I fully agree with Rodney, Havoc, Mikkel and others here: the whole desktop concept itself is some sort of dead-end (even though we could be innovating much more in this area) and is, in a certain way, getting outdated (considering the new ways people have been using technology nowadays). Because of that, I think it’s quite dangerous to exclusively stick with the “desktop” goal because we may be missing a lot of opportunities (and even get into an actual decadence situation) in the near future if we keep doing the same things in the exact same way.
So, yes, we do need to open GNOME for a whole new range of possibilities in a consistent way but first we need to create the right environment for innovation.
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