On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 12:04 +0100, K. Dennis Leyendecker wrote:
On 14.01.2012 11:04, Roger Luedecke wrote:
Sometimes I wonder, lol. KDE4 is a good design... since its modular, it doesn't remove control and insane configurability from the user... not to mention it WILL run without compositing.
+1 I really love KDE for that and for the fact that I can easily configure it to my needs.
Gnome 3 on the other hand just pisses me off. And all the squawk about it being a new paradigm is bullshit since you can replicate EVERYTHING it does in concept simply by using screen edges with compiz, docky, and the special Main Menu Novell put together for SuSE also has a nice big, potentially full screen app launcher.
Quite frankly, its time for a revolt! Gnome users need to flat out boycott Gnome 3 and support MATE, or at least Cinnamon.
And what about those users, who are happy with GNOME 3? They're existing. Really. What REALLY changed with Gnome 3? The desktop shell is the only real change. That experience can be replicated with already existing technology. 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.
In 12.1 KDE 4.7 was so damn glitchy and sluggish I finally just rolled back to Gnome on 11.4. Honestly... now that I'm actually getting acquainted with it, I'm falling in love with it and can't imagine why such a well polished thing is going to be utterly f*&^$d off. Gnome was about as close as we have gotten to the holy grail of desktop Linux, and now its being twisted into some awkward, ugly, inversatile, monolithic monstrosity.
Well, I had have some GNOME 2 installations in the past, but I always build me a plain-GNOME-2 environment, means to create a dock with three menus on the top of the desktop. I also didn't used the Novell menu that often, due to I couldn't work with it that well (The menu showed only ten programs and then a button to show a list with more. In the time I scroll the list, I would have opened the program over the shell at least ten times.) That criticism is also valid to Gnome 3 which will not permit you to use a traditional start menu. Gnome3 says that is too hard for you to comprehend.
The thing you can do is, to package Mate or other GNOME 2 forks for openSUSE.
--kdl
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