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In the past, Torvalds has once described the GNOME developers as interface nazis. Recently, when confronted with the new release, GNOME 3, he was no less forthcoming, describing the developers behind it as having their heads up their arses.
His initial outburst came during an exchange of views about some aspects of recent kernel releases on Google+; in response to a post from developer Dave Jones about fixing some bugs, Torvalds wrote: "While you are at it, could you also fork gnome, and support a gnome-2 environment? I want my sane interfaces back. I have yet to meet anybody who likes the unholy mess that is gnome-3."
Intel FOSS chief Dirk Hohndel added his voice: "Even if Gnome developers like it (and I doubt that they are using their laptops for actual work if they do), that still means that the rest of us are going AAAAAHHHHHHHHGGGGGGRRRRRRLLLLLLL!!!!!!! I have actually switched to xfce - and I remember you, Dave, aren't using Gnome, either. xfce is way inferior to Gnome 2. But Gnome 3 is just completely unusable as far as I'm concerned. As is the latest flavor of KDE :-("
And Hohndel, a man who adept at the art of sarcasm, added: "Hey, I'm giving the opening keynote at the desktop summit in Berlin next week. Those would be great opening statements, don't you think?"
Torvalds wasn't finished with his opinion. If he hadn't made his point clearly enough, he wanted to make sure that nobody was in any doubt.
"It's not that I have rendering problems with gnome3 (although I do have those too), it's that the user experience of Gnome3 even without rendering problems is unacceptable," he wrote.
"Why can't I have shortcuts on my desktop? Why can't I have the expose functionality? Wobbly windows? Why does anybody sane think that it's a good idea to have that 'go to the crazy 'activities'' menu mode?
"I used to be upset when gnome developers decided it was 'too complicated' for the user to remap some mouse buttons. In gnome3, the developers have apparently decided that it's 'too complicated' to actually do real work on your desktop, and have decided to make it really annoying to do."
