On Monday 07 November 2005 11:40 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Well, after reading this thread I decided to fire up Gnome for the first time in three years. It looked ok.. seemed to behave ok... but after I while I figured out I had been lied to by it's pretty face. When I fired up Firefox it was mangled. Gnome had managed to not let me click on any popdown menu or button and the toolbar bookmarks were completely missing. I thought I'd done something wrong so I removed all dot files and tmp files associated with Gnome and shutdown to a login prompted. I then logged in and started Gnome once more.. nope.. Firefox was smoked as far as using it in Gnome. I logged out and started KDE.. and Firefox worked fine.
So as far as I'm concerned.. unless SUSE gets Gnome a LOT more polished then it is at present.. I'll not be using Gnome for anything.
I do wonder something though. This change is to SLES and NLD right? Well, why would ANYONE *need* a UI to admin a Linux server is beyond me so the SLES thing is no biggie. The NLD issue is solved by using SUSE Pro I would think. I guess if SUSE mangles support for KDE that I'll just find something else to use as a desktop OS on my Dell.. maybe Kubuntu or something. I certainly won't be using Gnome.
*shrug*
You have described every experience I have ever had with GNOME. The KDE OTOH, is rock solid. Sure, some things go bonkers from time to time, but I'm usually running the bleeding edge bits, or even my own builds. I hope Novell execs aren't stup^h^h^h^h thinking they can get a better deal by cutting TrollTech out of the picture. The best remember, that knife cuts both ways. Steven