Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1188 mails)

[Roger Luedecke <roger.luedecke@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 01:58 +0000, Jim Henderson wrote: 
> On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:19:36 -0800, Roger Luedecke wrote:
>
> > Honestly, the only people I hear saying they are pleased with Gnome3 are
> > the extremist fanboys. Those are the folks who have too much emotional
> > investment in Gnome to admit it sucks.
>
> Sorry, Roger, that's simply not true.
>
> I consider the DE to be a minor element of using a system.  I personally 
> don't really care what DE people use, and find it difficult to get worked 
> up in discussions about KDE vs. GNOME vs. Enlightenment vs. <insert your 
> favourite DE here>.
>
> I like GNOME3.  It has some problems (one that bugs me a lot is when 
> shell crashes and I can't recover my running apps - having that happen 
> with VirtualBox running is NOT a good time), but on balance, I like it 
> because it *feels* minimalistic.
>
> That doesn't make me a fanboy or someone with "too much emotional 
> investment in Gnome" - and it doesn't help you or those who think it's 
> awful make a case because that *is* an emotional reaction.
>
> Jim
>
> -- 
>  Jim Henderson
>  Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits
Actually I agree with you. I personally find Gnome 3 not to be too bad,
so long as I'm using it on my netbook. However, this doesn't negate the
concerns raised. 
      * It is monolithic as opposed to modular 
      * It is dependent on compositing 
      * It is unconfigurable, removing choice and forcing users into a
        single workflow, that has been shown to have a couple critical
        flaws.
I see no true benefit supplied by Gnome 3 excepting that it was clearly
designed with eye-candy in mind. And mind you I LOVE eye-candy... but
not if it gets in the way of using my computer.

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