Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote:
Bozhidar Batsov wrote:
Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote:
Bozhidar Batsov wrote:
1.Runs perfectly - as many things in life that is rather relative,
but I've had my hands on GNOME in several distros and even FreeBSD
and everywhere else I had better exprience with GNOME, but none if
this OS had evenpart of Arch's style ;) I'll reinstall GNOME, maybe
the fault is me, but I saw some other users complaining as well for
the quality of the builds and decided that maybe something was
wrong indeed with them...
As to KDE having far more users than all the other DE - I cannot
believe that someone questions that... For the past several years
KDE has always won the Deskop of the year award which is decided by
users votes and wins it with huge difference 70% KDE, 20%GNOME and
10% to all the others... And on the subject that Fedora and Ubuntu
are ranked 3rd and 1st is distrowatch, I might add that they all
the other in top 20 except CentOS and Debian bias towards KDE...
Of course I've seen the difference between gnome and gnome-extras -
but gnome without gnome-ternimal and gedit by default???But then
again maybe I'm wrong - I do not claim to be an expert on the
subject - I just express my opinion...
About the personalization - I do personalize it myself ( Batman
style, hate distro personalizations anyway) but it really pissed me
off to see that it seem more attention was given to KDE and Xfce
than to my beloved GNOME. You must excuse me for that - when it
comes to GNU I kind of lose my temper...
I think the difference in their "treatment" is a reflection of how
they are provided. Kde comes in big chunks, gnome comes in small
chunks, as I understand it. tpowa maintains kde and JGC maintains
gnome - as I understand, due to upstream issues, gnome is a bit more
of a hassle to pkg, they like changing their mind about how they
want to do things I believe. I believe that it is the solution of
these upstream issues that drains time away from customization and
extensive polish. You must know that the slackware devs, for
example, completely gave up trying to maintain gnome pkgs? That
seems pretty indicative to me.
Phil
Anyway I'm looking forward to the upcoming GNOME 2.12 ... May the
Source be with You ALWAYS ;)
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Actually the Slackware's only dev Patrick gave up GNOME, but as I
have mentioned previously it was for the better - both Freerock and
Dropline produce very high quality GNOME builds for Slackware,
optimized for i686... I know that GNOME is cut to many more pieces
than KDE so it can the more highly customised and not too bloated by
default - that is its beauty - but if the devs are overburdened with
the packing of gnome I'm certain that the community can help Arch the
same way Freerock and Dropline helped Slackware...
...and as I said before - you better get started!
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If I have to - I'm prepared to go all the way... But first let us what
will happen after the 7tf of September...
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