[Discuss] GnomeOS

[markw at mohawksoft.com (Mark Woodward)]

An interesting move over at Gnome. They've announced "GnomeOS"

Ubuntu is going to drop Gnome as the primary desktop, as is Debian, and 
a couple others I believe. Because of this there was a lot of 
speculation as to whether Gnome was even relevant.

Does this help or hurt Gnome? (Does it matter?)

I am sort of thinking that Gnome needs to re-evaluate the desktop and 
understand why 3.0 is so poorly received. I reverted to "gnome classic" 
because the current Gnome desktop is unusable. I feel that Gnome is 
doing to itself what KDE did to itself years ago by "improving" the 
desktop so much that it was unusable.

I think eye-candy can be cool, but in many ways, it is like special 
effects in a movie. A movie that is primarily a showcase for special 
effects is typically horrible. A different movie with no fewer special 
effects can far better as long as the special effects support a good 
story. Similarly, I think the latest Gnome is more about "how it looks" 
than it is about "how it works," and this makes it a pretty but useless 
mess.

Does anyone use and like the latest Gnome desktop?