>> But I guess that's a symptom of another worryingly common problem: GNOME
>> 3 is *clearly* designed to run on a tablet or a phone. Because nobody
>> uses desktop PCs anymore, right? Right??>_<
>
> Well, I do not use gnome anymore on PC. xfce rules now.
> I enjoyed gnome2 and its applets. They lost me with unity&  gnome3.

Sadly, this seems to be the way of the world. At work I'm forced to use 
Windows 8, which keeps insisting that my desktop is actually a tablet. 
Complete with low-detail fonts, and an ugly, blocky colour scheme that a 
tablet can handle. Because why would you pay £1,000 for a developer 
workstation and then expect to use it like a developer workstation?

>> Because there's no documentation. Indeed, one Stack Overflow commenter
>> helpfully commented that "there SHOULD be no documentation, because the
>> source code is the documentation". No, random Internet user, the source
>> code is not and will never be the documentation. Because the source code
>> gives you the *implementation* not the *interface*.
>
> Right. At best: the documentation is in the source code, for doxygen to
> extract. But "Source is all you need" is just bad. Code never explains
> the concepts.

Indeed.

All the source code for the Linux kernel is freely available. Yet no 
sane person expects you to actually read the source code to figure out 
how you open a file!

(Then again, the Linux kernel obeys POSIX and similar, so...)

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