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On Tuesday 21 February 2006 12:25, Duncan wrote: |
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> FWIW, I long since gave up on GNOME -- for the same reason Linus has: |
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> "This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality |
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> of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots |
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> will use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it |
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> has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need |
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> it to do." Some background and additional opinion on the issue, in an |
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> article by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, at [1]. Or simply use Google's |
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> linux-specific search page at [2], type in linus gnome kde as your |
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> search terms, and take your pick of other coverage. |
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It's worse, the gnome spirit even penetrated through to gnome. After |
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spending several hours trying to find out how to make the gtk file save |
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dialog be opened by default (I like seeing the directory I save stuff in, |
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or setting it), I found it is not configurable. I finally ended up |
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creating a patch to just collapse it (no interest in configuring it at |
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this point). At least my firefox is useable again ;-). |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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