On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 16:11, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 12:41, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > > > > What "advance settings"? The GNOME developers have been mostly working > > > on software that "just works" rather than sofware with a million > > > configuration options. > > > > Which is the worst decision they ever made (IMHO :) What if I love > > being able to customise the hell out of everything? > > Then you are not a part of GNOME's target audience, and you should use > something else. That is why options exist. KDE, for instance, has a > plethora of options for every aspect of the desktop I can think of. Perhaps I'm still hanging on from when I was a part of gnomes target audience! > > By far the best desktop I have ever used was gnome on redhat 7.3 + > > ximian. Efficient, intuitive, customisable, excellent! > > Perhaps it's time to try other options. KDE has a large following for a > reason. XFCE is also a wonderful desktop. You might find that you > enjoy one of them. Last time I tried KDE, I came into many things I couldn't customise. Maybe I just didn't know enough about it. I'll try again when I have some more time. No doubt many people here would be willing to help me make the transition ;-) Can you use the same window borders/icons/themes with kde or is that a specific gnome thing? -- Iain Buchanan <iain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> In every non-trivial program there is at least one bug.
