[buster]

He is missing the point that the Gnome projects he listed are indeed Gnome projects but the projects he mentions "we" should focus on are not Gnome projects at all. It's not up to Gnome to make LibreOffice or Blender better. It's up to the Gnome team to work on overall user experience and a solid base on which the programs he mentions run. big difference!

He should probably not talk about Gnome but about Ubuntu or RedHat focusing more other stuff or to the libreoffice teams or whatever.

Also: So far i enjoy the Gnome experience very much. It may have still some bugs but all in all, in my mind, the Gnome team succeeded with Gnome 3.x and the new design/layout/workflow.

[wmf]

I think many of the Linux desktop's problems can be traced to the artificial walls between projects. Everything that ships on the GNOME OS DVD is GNOME's responsibility, including apps like LibreOffice. If an improvement needs to be made, it should be made in the proper place even if that is not "your" project. And if LibreOffice doesn't accept GNOME's patches then GNOME has to fork it.

[buster]

i think it became pretty clear from the latest Gnome articles that such forks are very unrealistic. In my opinion it's the responsibility of the LibreOffice team to deliver a good user experience on the supported operating systems. Gnome develops appropriate APIs and guidelines and it would be Gnomes responsibility to make sure LibreOffice has all the APIs it needs to work as good as possible.

Also, this is no artificial wall, this is reality. MS isn't responsible to fix Adobe Photoshop and Gnome isn't responsible to fix Blender.

[jmags]

I think it's also important to try and forge connections between software people like and your DE. Photoshop sells Macs even though there were many years when it was better-supported on Windows.