Good Bye FC5

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Wed May 17 16:03:33 UTC 2006


On 5/17/06, Christofer C. Bell <christofer.c.bell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/17/06, Lyvim Xaphir <knightmerc at 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.
>
I did. And I didn't need a kernerl coder to tell me that.

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