@fader: actually, that would be “lelamal”, but I guess that’s OK anyway.

> Do you really want a press release for every single minor change in text
ever?

I never talked about a press release, but a blog post would have been nice and
shown a communicative attitude for the benefit of the whole community on which
Ubuntu – AND Canonical – thrive.

> How you go from a change in the description of a CD to “OMG Canonical plans
to destroy GNOME and Debian and take credit for inventing electricity!” is
beyond me. Try taking a breath, calming down, and not immediately assuming
evil intent behind every change.

I’m breathing normally, here, and have been calm all the time. It is not a
change relating to “a CD”, as I’ve already explained extensively (please, read
my previous posts). The way you put it in quotes shows a hysteric behavior my
previous posts were clearly missing. Since you wonder, I’ll give you another
clue as to how I said what I said about Canonical’s ongoing semi-fork of
GNOME. The change that you deem irrelevant is just the tip of an iceberg that,
recently, is threatening to reveal itself in all its majesty. In case you
missed them, these exchanges might be illuminating:

http://gregdekspeaks.wordpress.com/2010/07/29/red-hat-16-canonical-1/
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/439
http://gregdekspeaks.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/its-not-about-tribalism-mark/

Don’t read just the blogger’s posts, but go deep into the comments to identify
the underlying sentiment I was talking about here.

> Incidentally, I’m running maverick and have “About GNOME” under the System
menu, just as it’s always been. If Canonical is trying to destroy GNOME and
hide the evidence, strange that they’re still making that ‘about’ information
easily visible.

Never talked about “destroy”. Actually, my reasoning was a bit more elaborated
that “destroy”. And, yeah, I had that too. My point was about the change
occurred; what has not changed (yet), instead, doesn’t prove much, does it?
And by the way, we’ll see how long will that one last, too. We’re still at
Alpha 3…

Incidentally, I’m running maverick and have “About GNOME” under the System menu, just as it’s always been. If Canonical is trying to destroy GNOME and hide the evidence, strange that they’re still making that ‘about’ information easily visible.

(PS: I don’t notice “GNOME” anywhere on the default Fedora, Gentoo, or Debian login screens, either. This conspiracy goes deeper than we thought!)

@Akshat: it wasn’t in Lucid as well (or Karmic, or…) but I can still see it called GNOME on the current LTS. What’s next? Should we expect to see any reference to Debian removed as well, to give new users the idea Ubuntu grew up from its on seed, like a strange self-pollinating exotic plant? The point is not to remind me where to install vanilla GNOME from, the point is to remove any reference to “the core desktop element of Ubuntu” from the login screen for the “benefit” of new users.

Are they planning to fork GNOME, or better still, are they planning to keep forking GNOME and give it the final blow? Is that the reason why we didn’t see any effort to adjust any of the latest developments in design and usability to the next version of GNOME? Not acknowledging its evolution and removing its name from login screen without a word, leaves little space to different explanations.

Oh, thanks for clarifying. It must be for this reason that Maverick login screen now shows “Ubuntu Desktop Edition” rather than the classic “GNOME”, among the available DEs. It makes me think of Mark “Eddie Vedder” Shuttleworth singing: “It’s evolution, baby!”…