![]() I personally feel, like Peter, that Gnome has went downhill from 1.4 onwards… Now I believe that the gconf editor is really not a very easy thing to understand/use, powerful yes, but not intuitive, especially to the average, “non-hacker”. He needs to edit the gconf file to do so. Novell should be ashamed of itself, but then it did by Ximian, so what did we expect.Īs to the ease of use of Gnome – a user on my distros forum had lost the wastebasket from the Gnome desktop, and wanted to know how to get it back. He builds his distro and doesn’t let political things tell him what he should/shouldn’t do. And they wonder why they’re being dropped! Peter (Slackware) has hit the nail right on the head. And the Gnome developers have been bugged about this for some time but have done jack. Gnomes ftp site doesn’t even have all the packages. And guess what Gnome lovers, it works, and it’s easy to configure, no little surprises or “how the F do I do that?” that i’ve encountered trying to use Gnome 2.4/2.6.Įver wonder why Slackware is considering dropping Gnome? Read those forum posts and you’ll see why. Just starting using XFCE 4.2 beta and it’s nice. Personally, and i’ve said it before, I’ve found the Gnome UI to be disgraceful. It obviously seems that Gnome is being pushed by FSF to be adopted and KDE to be ignored. ![]() Support Gnome instead of KDE (or both as it really should be). God, what a mess! Take yast, make it a bit prettier, eliminate *choice* from your menus (hey, that’s why you guys mostly use Linux right, choice?). I’m not sure if Novell’s installer question will be as poorly worded as the Fedora/Red Hat installer, but from the quote in the installer it sure seems like it will be. A pathetic first experience to Linux, for no good reason. But both KDE and Gnome have the exact same description, so a new user would just have to throw up their arms in confusion. The best example of this is in Fedora Core 1 and 2 installs, where the user is supposed to choose between KDE and Gnome. ![]() And in case you think I am just being a pro-Gnome troll, I think KDE-based distros should do the same but opposite thing: use KDE by default and let the user configure Gnome afterward. It would make more sense to me if they installed the KDE libs by default, but left KDE itself as a post-install configuration option in YaST. What’s the point of that? If they have configured standard Gnome applications for most tasks, why bother to include a question about KDE at all? It just adds unneeded confusion. “If you do not know which environment your company prefers, ask your system administrator.”
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