man, i predicted a gnome fork a couple of months ago, but i
figured it would be because of Novell wanting to use Mono in it
and RedHat refusing to do it and thus, both companies deciding
to go their own ways  i still think that fork will happen as
well, but apparantly one long time member of the Gnome
foundation has already created a fork of the project because he
dislikes many of the recent choices that have been made within
the Gnome community (and rightfully so IMNSHO)  more information
can be found here  my favourite quotes:  The people that I met
and whom I was able to read and talk with, pointed out how much
they dislike changes such as Buttonordering, GConf (Windows
Registry), Spatial Nautilus, things like general
inconsistencies, no real progress, speed issues, huge
dependencies, instant apply without reverting to default,
scrollkeeper and many more. there you have it... no real
progress, speed issues and huge dependencies. i&#039;ve been
saying this for a while now but i&#039;m so glad to FINALLY hea