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
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> Da: Christopher Desjardins <cddesjardins(a)gmail.com>
> A: opensuse-factory(a)opensuse.org
> 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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