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
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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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org