Carl Hartung wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 16:26:59 -0400 Anton Aylward wrote:
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I tried it. One think I consider important is alternative .... Well in KDE they are called 'virtual desktops'. Its not that they don't exist in Cinnamon, its that they are obscure and awkward. I click on the "2" and can't get it to switch. I had to go to google to find out how to add more and its highly obscure and unintuitive. It is not in the 'system settings' and alt-clicking or right-clicking on the "1" and "2" doesn't offer controls.
In fact the UP of the 'system settings' is bloody awful. There's no "ok/apply/cancel" button, for example and some things you have to log out and log back in before they take effect --- only it doesn't tell you that.
Maybe I'm too acclimatised to KDE but compared to the other Alt-Gnome DEs such as lxde it is very awkward.
We're obviously not talking about the same release (much less the distribution,) Anton, so I can't really comment on what you're seeing.
What Marco and I were discussing was the fact that Cinnamon, at least in the implementations we've experienced elsewhere, has clearly already demonstrated that it could be a real contender for 'hearts and minds' out there. We're talking tangible, achievable potential, too, not long term pie in the sky potential.
I think it'd be fantastic if openSUSE were to put even a modest fraction of the time and effort into it as they did into GNOME2. I really don't think it needs all that much to give the other DEs out there a real run for their money (IMHO, of course!)
The entire gnome community seems to be entirely blind to the basic concept of the value of screen real-estate and how there are only so many pixels which can be displayed at a time...and gives everything a pixel footprint far bigger than it needs to be. just compare yast2-qt with yast2-gtk. The GTK implementation takes up far more room for fewer package listings, AND fewer items of information about said packages. And then there are factions withing the GNOME community who think that GTK is STILL to conservative in pixel-wastage.
regards,
Carl
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