On Wed, 2006-17-05 at 10:34 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > I used to be of the opinion that GNOME was "the one" -- both > technically superior to KDE (it is) and philosophically superior (now > I'm doubtful). GNOME is rapidly losing my respect as it's become less > and less easy to use (ironically) because I can't make it do anything > other than what's in The Vision(tm) of whomever is making these design > decisions. > > Linus is probably right, I should switch to KDE. Gnome is heading more and more towards a corporate desktop that is affordable to maintain, support, and deploy. That necessarily means removing/changing anything that could confuse the end user and thus require a call to tech support. Of course, it also means that Gnome should be easier to use for everyone, except maybe for "power" users. I don't like some of the decisions that Gnome devs have made, but I think the rapid change is where most of the grief is coming from. I and many others have difficulty adjusting too, so you're certainly not alone. On the whole , Gnome is headed towards a better place. It's much easier now to maintain and support a Gnome environment than it was in the past - I really appreciate the advancements in this area. But, for all us power end users, be warned: expect to run into a brick wall, at full speed, face first, many, many, many times. :) Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.16-1.2108_FC4 i686 GNU/Linux 12:03:27 up 3:02, 2 users, load average: 0.86, 0.72, 0.48
