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On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 13:07:13 -0700 John Andersen wrote: <snipped>
Meh!
More uninspiring Gnomeishness, with menus larger than any rational size.
I suppose if we needed a lighter weight DE, and if OpenSuse had the balls to just walk away from Gnome, it might be ok, but realistically adding yet another Gnome Clone isn't that helping, its just adding more work for the devs already overburdened drying to get systemd fully integrated.
Out of curiosity, John, did you install it or just look at screenshots? Choice is what I love about Linux. On the surface, maybe Cinnamon doesn't appeal to you, esthetically, but the implementation on Mint that I have installed in parallel on this system is highly polished. What I mean by "polished" is everything 'just works.' I've found no surprises or hidden limitations or obvious breakage. Clearly, the people who put out that release knew what they were doing. I'm not so much after "looks" as I am functionality ... I really want the desktop to get out of my way and stay there most of the time. I do not want little oversights and irritating anomalies to interfere with my work. I want it to do what it's supposed to do, intuitively, and do so consistently. This is how I would describe my GNOME2/openSUSE11.4 installation, which was a real workhorse. There were some very subtle and consistent capabilities built into that environment. GNOME3 is literally impossible for me to use. It isn't compatible with my work requirements. Of all the possible GNOME2 replacement DE candidates I evaluated at the time -- and I looked at over a dozen -- Cinnamon was by far and away the closest thing I found. So "meh" if you want, everyone's entitled to their opinion, but Cinnamon can be just as 'polished' as I've described here, which is an enhancement to my productivity, and IMHO that sets a very high bar for the other DEs to follow. regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org