Canonical on Omid Farhanghttps://omid.dev/tags/canonical/Recent content in Canonical on Omid FarhangOmid Farhanghttps://omid.dev/images/bio-photo-150x150.jpghttps://omid.dev/images/bio-photo-150x150.jpgHugo -- 0.161.1en-US2026 Omid Farhang | All rights reserved.Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:56:00 +0000GNOME Developers Attack Canonical’s Ubuntu Decisionhttps://omid.dev/2010/10/29/gnome-developers-attack-canonicals-ubuntu-decision/Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:56:00 +0000https://omid.dev/2010/10/29/gnome-developers-attack-canonicals-ubuntu-decision/<p>Many Ubuntu users will undoubtedly have strong opinions on Canonical’s recent proposal to replace the GNOME desktop with Unity in the Ubuntu 11.04 release.  But for the programmers behind GNOME, one of the open-source community’s most important projects, the announcement might prove to be even more upsetting.  <a href="http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann">Jon McCann</a>, lead designer for GNOME Shell, recently shared his thoughts on this topic with us–and he was none too charitable in his comments on Canonical.  Read on for details.</p>