On 01/14/2012 03:39 AM, kanenas@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
you are missing the point: kde4 and gnome3 are ms conspiracies....
Surely you jest...
How do you kill Linux? Kill the desktops by eliminating the efficient and
elegant desktop environments that "just work" and replace them with 'new
improved' versions that are continually in 'development' and are just
awkwardly different enough from the last version as to require the user to
have to completely 're-learn' the desktop with each successive release. Then
you kill off the ability to configure the new desktops to taste (or horribly
confuse it) and add annoyances like new file-open dialogs that are too stupid
to remember the last directory it fetched a file from or that
continually/automatically change .jpg extensions to .jpeg extensions or some
other nonsense like that.
Desktops are released way, way too soon in the development cycle. This
frustrates users, overwhelms developers and gives what were once well loved
and well trusted desktop environments a bad name. We all remember the first
non-beta "Official Release" of KDE 4.0.4 with opensuse 11.0 in "June of 2008".
The haste in Gnome3 is not quite as bad, but close.
I can find my way around in Gnome3, but frankly, I hate it compared to Gnome2
for pretty basic reasons. The panel-0 and panel-1 configuration is horrible,
gconf-editor is practically useless, changing the greeter screen is next to
impossible and if you just want to change the gtk or metacity theme, you have
to search in vain for some tool to let you do it.