Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (44 mails)

[Alberto Passalacqua <alberto.passalacqua@xxxxxx>]

I take the freedom to forward this message to the the GNOME mailing list
so that it reaches GNOME devs.

P.S. If possible, comment of opensuse-factory, because Christopher
probably is not reading this mailing list.

Regards,
Alberto

------- Messaggio inoltrato -------
> Da: Christopher Desjardins <cddesjardins@xxxxxxxxx>
> A: opensuse-factory@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Oggetto: [opensuse-factory] GNOME?
> Data: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 14:00:12 -0500
> 
> Hi,
> I am a relatively new openSuSE user (since December 2006)  and I am
> primarily a KDE user, though I dabble a bit with GNOME ever now and
> then.  I've been using Linux for some years now and I must say that I
> was very impressed with openSuSE's KDE.  It was very easy to set up
> and by just adding packman and suser-guru I was in business.
> After a little while I figured I'd give GNOME a shot.  It looked very
> nice and polished from the screenshots I'd seen.  I am also a huge fan
> of tango.  After a few days of playing with GNOME I had encountered so
> many annoyances that I decided to switch back to KDE.  But I wanted to
> express my grievances.
> First, out of the box the fonts are horrible.  Why are they so ugly by
> default in GNOME but nice in KDE?  It's very easy to set this up in
> GNOME but what about newbies and businesses that don't want to spend
> the time doing all of this?
> Second, multimedia support is abysmal.  I followed several wikis and
> tried helix-banshee but banshee just wouldn't work properly.  Now I
> think it's important that if I don't have mp3 support out of the box
> that it's relatively easy to obtain.  After I struggled through
> segfault after segfault I decided that I would never get banshee
> working properly.  So my question is why isn't there an option to get
> a fully functioning banshee that works (not helix-banshee) like the
> amarok version in packman?  Also I don't want RealPlayer on my laptop
> ... no thanks!
> Third, beagle integration and SLAB are very bad.  Again the beagle
> integration in KDE is terrific and kickoff works wonderfully but
> beagle in GNOME and SLAB are just horrendous.  Why is SLAB such a hog?
>  Why is beagle more of a hog in GNOME than KDE?
> This is just a few of my grievances.  Of course ZMD was a pain but I
> know that is no longer going to be installed by default.
> I'm just wondering where the love for GNOME is?  I have to admit that
> if I really wanted a nice GNOME distro I'd be choosing another distro
> (Ubuntu).
> Thanks for listening and I hope that openSuSE can make as wonderful of
> a GNOME version in the future as their KDE version is.  You guys do
> great work!
> Cheers,
> Chris
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