Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4054 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 10:35 +0530, aram v nathan wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 09:23 -0500, Ken Schneider wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 10:18 +0100, Per Kustemo wrote:
> > > But this problem was cause I'm not running KDE, i'm trying to get this
> > > to work in GNOME.
> > > Here it comes again.
> > > ----------------------------------------------------
> > > Hi.
> > > When I use the KDE there is a powersave for my laptop monitor (just
> > > the monitor) so it goes totally black but I'm not able to find the
> > > same option in GNOME (the monitor goes black but not totally as in
> > > KDE).
> > > Is there some setting I have missed or is there som package I have to install?
> > > Regards
> > > /Per
> > Since the fine folks that are creating Gnome consider "less control" to
> > be "less confusing" to the user it probably does not exist. The best
> > thing to do would be to write the developers requesting control over the
> > shutdown of the monitor and then -not- hold your breath waiting for a
> > change. There was a long discussion involving Linus (the linux creator)
> > about why there are so few options for the user to make changes to their
> > gnome environment the the developers said that having to many control
> > options available to the user would be "confusing" to the user. Go
> > figure.
> > 
> Bill Gates also thought likewise perhaps thats why his OS has been a
> succcess in no small measure.

Dumb down the product, dumb down the user. Linux is all about the user
having -more- control not less. Ask a college graduate today to do
something at a command prompt and most won't even know what you are
talking about. Does that make the product better, I think not.
I am not saying Gnome is not a good desktop, it could be much better if
the user had more control over it's settings.

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998