Sergey's dashboard

Yuuguu provides a spectacular, unparalleled capability. That is why, despite all the complaining and frustration, the users are not going elsewhere, but continuing to complain and act frustrated :)

Language choices and UI choices, etc. are stuff and fluff. We are not going to all agree because we have differing requirements and goals and evaluation criteria. The development team and the company naturally want interface uniqueness and visibility and cross-platform consistency and ease of development and ability to use cheaper Java devs instead of expensive C++ hackers. Linux users naturally want native look and feel and interoperability with the rest of the desktop and less intrusive interfaces and more control over behavior.

If the company really wants a community of pleased non-windows users, it will pay attention to their wishes. Probably by providing a public API to the screen-sharing functionality and letting the community integrate it into the desktop the way they want. Of course the company will have to consider how to provide a path to making some money out of this... But not pleasing the (or a) user community is a way to ensure complete rejection of the product by the community as soon as the first alternative comes along. Don't wait for us to get a chance to go elsewhere - take advantage of being pretty much the only and the first and the best and lock it in for the long term. And don't forget to consult the community before you settle on an API, if you don't want to hear a lot of subsequent whining.

And please, please, publish keys for your repos. That's just embarrassing for you and causes me to avoid automatic updates, so I end up not using the versions of the product, that you want me to use - you worked too hard on them to let them sit unused in your unauthenticatable repo. If you need help creating and publishing a key, just ask - I am sure you will get plenty of volunteer assistance.

---Sergey