Look... If you catch someone with a stolen phone just check to see if it has any pirated content. That will get some real punishment!

They are just waiting for a blog to get a million hits, and they they are ON IT!

I too love Gnome Flashback. And it would not exist if a developer from Edubuntu had not come in to take it over...

Hold the left alt key and right click on the panel to add elements. This is a GTK3 default that can be changed.

So, yes some things moved. But the core functionality is the same, and that is what I needed.

Actually, my personal favorite is Mexico where the word for norther visitor and the word for diarrhea is the same. Turista. And I guess you are right, as those European's don't seem to be on the same planet most of the time...

Stacking things by application, regardless of workflow is a serious impediment to some workflow. This is fact, not fear. If a change makes a job take 10% longer, it is a BAD CHANGE. This is something they never grasped. And while it may not be much of an issue for a home user or hobbyist, for people that use Linux on the job, it is major.

Have you checked out Gnome Flashback? https://wiki.gnome.org/Project...

I wish I could. Gnome Flashback is Gnome 2 with the gtk3 under it. It is very good. But you can not only support it... https://wiki.gnome.org/Project...

Here you go. http://xfree86.sourceforge.net...

Actually, Gnome Flashback is very good. If I could donate to just it, I would!

Because accuracy also counts.

Only a woman would call the above rational... ;) (That was a joke!)

In all seriousness, however, you demonstrated the problem clearly. The Gnome Foundation has a core competency of creating user interfaces. (I know! Gnome 3 and competence is a stretch, but stick with me a second.) I don't care if you are a guy, a girl, or a dude in a dress... I want good code. But, women's advocacy has nothing to do with putting out a good UI. A ton of money was wasted that did nothing for them at all! This is not anti-woman. This is anti "women's advocacy."

Gnome 4?

You could have said the same thing about Xfree86. They, like Gnome, lost sight of the user base. But Gnome did worse. The people they pissed off, Developers, power users, and large content workers, are the very ones most likely to contribute code and money. Belittling them for pointing out the flaws didn't help either. So if they go, it will cause some problems for a while, but we still have the KDE foundation, the Apache Foundation, and a ton of focused projects that no longer need a large "foundation" to support them.

But, if they pull their head out, and make amends with those folks, I think things can still be saved. Some more prominence and respect for Gnome Flashback would go a LONG way towards bringing people back.

They are getting the same respect they gave the users who did not appreciate a multi headed very expensive single view tablet as a computing platform. If there was ever a call for Nelson Muntz, this is it.