On 5/17/06, Lyvim Xaphir knightmerc@yahoo.com wrote:
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 16:15 -0500, Russell Golden wrote:
yes, and thank God they made an option in win9x to keep everything in the same window. it's stupid to have everything in separate windows. it's just clutter
Exactly, because of user demand. New window behavior as opposed to tab or pane setups is retrograde evolution.
How about some user demand for flexibility of choice? The "open in a broswer window" is not acceptable. I want the *folder* to open *in the same window*, not in a browswer window. How about some user demand for the GNOME developers to stop screwing with fundamental user interface design every single release?
I used to be of the opinion that GNOME was "the one" -- both technically superior to KDE (it is) and philosophically superior (now I'm doubtful). GNOME is rapidly losing my respect as it's become less and less easy to use (ironically) because I can't make it do anything other than what's in The Vision(tm) of whomever is making these design decisions.
Linus is probably right, I should switch to KDE.