Hopefully there *IS* a vision
I am hoping that the Gnome developers actually do have a *vision* they are building towards, and just not telling us. First they remove the minimize, now they remove split screen? Let's make it more and more difficult to drag-and-drop files from one folder to another!
Thankfully there ARE choices, whether Unity (on Ubuntu or Fedora), KDE, Xfce, LXDE or others.
Unity is shaping up nicely and gives the appearance they are listening to their users so it is genuinely improving with each version. KDE is a good, solid, conservative environment that is very flexible and customizable. Plasma Active is even being used in Tablets *now*.
One defining moment will be when the more conservative enterprises are faced with Gnome from Red Hat. If their customers balk, then we'll see Gnome do a two-step towards whatever these enterprises want.
And if Red Hat doesn't, SUSE has been reorganizing and laying the foundation under their new owners so they should be ready to really push SUSE as a competitor to Red Hat.
If SUSE wanted, openSUSE uses KDE as their default and could probably tweak it for the enterprises and switch to that if that will satisfy their customers.
