> 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
Excellent point. Thanks for making note of it. Very best regards; Bob Finch > >> Anyway I'm looking forward to the upcoming GNOME 2.12 ... May the >> Source be with You ALWAYS ;) > _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
