On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 11:17, Derek Martin wrote: > On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:51:27AM +0530, Vikram Goyal wrote: > > Then came fedora with its bag of problems. Most of the users like me > > thought , ok, maybe in one or two release it will also reach the same > > level of comfort as redhat 8, 9. But that never happened. > > And it probably never will. Fedora is meant to be a cutting-edge > testbed for RH enterprise-level distributions. This is both good and > bad, depending on your perspective. As others have said, if you need > a stable desktop environment, most likely you really should be looking > elsewhere. > > > One good example is file browser. In 8,9 ver one could do almost all > > acts in the same browser window. There was preferences tab with all the > > nitty-gritty settings which a user might want to tweak. The comfort > > level was great. Then came nautilus. File browser was put in the > > system-tools. Its preferences tab removed. Now for each setting one has > > to click Desktop -> Preferences -> the particular preference, which in > > my opinion sucks. This is only one example, and there are numerous. > > There have been many arguments about this kind of thing on the > gnome-usability mailing list (and other gnome-related lists too I > would imagine). This is not a problem with Fedora per se; the gnome > UI designers have issues. They keep making things worse, not better, > all the while telling you that you're just doing it wrong. The > computer is supposed to work the way *I* want, not the other way > around... Maybe GORM 1.0 will be an answer to these problems. :)
