On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:22:05 +0000, yttrx wrote:
> Rick <none@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:45:49 +0000, yttrx wrote:
>>
>>> BearItAll <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Hadron wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> BearItAll <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> GNOME [10th] Birthday
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>>> | Ten years ago the GNU Network Object Model Environment project
>>>>>>> was | announced by Miguel de Icaza. Happy birthday GNOME! `----
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.barisione.org/blog.html/p=99
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Only ten!!!! Good job that wasn't my million pound question on who
>>>>>> wants to be a millionaire, because I would have picked a higher
>>>>>> number than that, maybe C, 15 years. But I'm pretty sure I wouldn't
>>>>>> have picked D, 2000 years.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you remember those early Gnomes, big clunky menus and buttons
>>>>>> and shell stability that could be called mediocre. Then we have the
>>>>>> product that we
>>>>>
>>>>> So Gnome wasn't ready for the desktop 10 years ago? Shock horror.
>>>>>
>>>>>> have now, a rock solid streamlined shell. In a way a shell if its
>>>>>> good should be sort of invisible, you use it daily but don't notice
>>>>>> it, because it never gets in the way, I think that is what Gnome
>>>>>> has become, so good that you don't need to think about it anymore.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think that the new KDE will win some hearts though.
>>>>>
>>>>> KDE is an over engineered mess. It is strangling itself. It tries to
>>>>> be too much for too many and as such has lost any true identity.
>>
>> Apparently it has a strong identity, especially among the users that
>> have chosen to use it.
>>
>>
> Almost exclusively ex-windows users.
So what? If you took a survey I'd bet a large number, if not the
majority, of Linux users are either current or past windows users.
>
>
>>>> Look at the new Kde, even in Beta it was worthy of note.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> KDE is for people who really should be using windows instead.
>>>
>> Really? I suppose you use only the command line.
>>
>>
> Actually I use Gnome most of the time. I like Nautilus quite a lot for
> file management, and the GTK toolkit is very simple to get going.
Why do --users-- need to get the GTK tool kit going?
>
>
>> There a many people that think Gnome has hidden too much away.. tried
>> to dumb it down. I am one of those people. I like that KDE allows you
>> to do so much from its menu system, and that it has been that way for
>> years. No, I don't routinely use it. I routinely use WindowMaker, but
>> KDE is second choice.
>>
>>
> "Hidden too much away"?
Yes.
>
> Dear, sweet child.
I am not a child, either in years of age, or years of Linux use.
> If you can't find it, you shouldn't be fucking with
> it in the first place.
That's bullshit.
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Rick
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