The shamelessness of tab-mania

Image courtesy of OgMaciel GNOME people had so much fun lately with jokes on notebook tabs. While some are obvious jokes (like d-bus one and tab on tab ), some of the mock-ups really look realistic: gcalctool , banshee , pidgin , totem , empathy , panel , and possibly there are more. None except Nautilus is real. However, they don’t get the point at all. They are just all triumphing about their precious dark jokes , without realizing what people’s reaction means. Even some of the developer themselves did question if the tabmania is real. The point is, people’s reaction indicated fairly well that those FOSS gods high up there are inept enough, so casual observers truly believe they will really do stupid things, that is perfectly possible, as was shown in numerous occasions in GNOME history — be it the spatial mode (which is the greatest GNOME innovation ever happened), or the constantly changing Metacity behavior (...