Comment 607 for bug 532633
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| Pyramid Technologies (pyramidtechnologies) wrote | #607 |
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Taken from another website, this post below illustrates many of things I've said; so while the words below are not mine, their sentiment most certainly is...along with many, many, many other people's sentiment as well.
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You're right, I'm the only one that disagrees with it.
All sarcasm aside, lets talk about community. You say the "vast majority" has not voiced their opinion. So this is the only way things get decided upon? We're waiting for this vast majority from the unknown to vote in some unknown manner for it to be taken seriously? I guess the community from the official ubuntu forums, brainstorm and launchpad don't actually count then. Someone should have told us before we voiced our opinion that our voice does not matter before asking us to voice our opinion (which Mark did in the bug).
You say Canonical's target audience is the novice user who is new to computers. Is this the vast majority you speak of? People who downloaded and installed ubuntu on their computer but do not take part in the forums or launchpad or brainstorm to voice their opinion? So the rest of us are just free marketing and bug fixing but have no say in how the OS develops?
I think something is missing here because it really doesn't make sense to me. A company focus's on the user who takes no part in the community while ignoring the active community.
moving on...
It's a bad decision because:
#1 Nobody but mac users are used to it. 90% of the rest of the world are used to it being on the right.
#2 There has been ZERO explanations as to why this needs to be done. There is no benefit. There is no advantage. There is only upset and agnostic users. The only excuse has been "we might put something on the right". PUT IT ON THE LEFT!
#3 LTS. We are stuck with this half-design for the next 3 years.
#4 Zero community input taken into consideration. I'll say zero, because if I mention Mark asked for input from the community and the majority (see above) yelled loud and clear that they were against it and the decision was still made in favor, then that makes the decision look much worse.
#5 major UI change 2 weeks after a UI freeze... in an LTS
I'm done with this issue. I'm really tired of trying to explain this on deaf ears. The powers that be just don't understand what pissing off your core users really means. Yes, WE are your core users. We are the ones spending our time, money and energy using, advocating, fixing and improving your OS just because we like it and the community. This "vast majority" of users you speak of who do not participate who give nothing back but arbitrary numbers should not take precedence over the satisfaction of your core users.
This all said, I am a power user and will continue to configure the OS I spend so much time, money and energy on improving upon to fit my needs. I will continue more testing of my family and customers to see if I will need to do further customizing for them as well. If it weren't for this community I would jump ship. There is no other place like it.
Maybe Canonical should stop taking this for granted.