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J.A.H. posted <4399FDE6.3020707@×××××××××××.com>, excerpted below, on |
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Fri, 09 Dec 2005 13:57:58 -0800: |
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> Gnome took out its menu editor. SMEG is masked on my computer. I did an |
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> emerge with -S (edit.*menu)|(menu.*edit) and this is what I got... smeg |
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> is the only package returned that will work. |
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FWIW, my opinion but, Gnome taking out the ability for users to reasonably |
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tweak it (without hand-editing text files or some something that reminds |
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me of the MSWormOS Registry) is the reason I'm a solid KDE user. Gnome |
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seems to be more and more targeted at corporate types that don't like the |
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desktop messed with anyway, and AOLer types that are afraid or lack the |
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initiative to change much anyway. KDE, OTOH, continues to allow the power |
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user to tweak things to change what they want to change, menus and colors |
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included, with the applets to change both of those part of kdebase. |
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If you like tweaking stuff like menu layout, my guess is that you'll be |
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happier with KDE anyway. (Of course, there are lighter alternatives, such |
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as xfce, if desired, as well, but KDE matches my style better than the |
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others seem to, in part because it's devs /allowed/ it to match my style, |
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because I can still tweak it to do so.) |
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I just have a thing against windowing environments with devs that are so |
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sure they know better than I do what *I* want, that they are actually |
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deliberately REMOVING functionality to ensure it's more difficult for me |
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to get what I want than it was previously... One of the few non-KDE X |
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apps I continue to use is PAN, because it actually put back IN the |
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customizable hotkey functionality, due to user demand, after GTK2 removed |
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it, because customized keyboard functionality didn't fit in with the |
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Gnome2/GTK2 HID. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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