[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
Excellent point. Thanks for making note of it.
Very best regards;
Bob Finch
I hope you read my request on that post for it is not entirely true -
after all Patrick is just one man and his abilities though huge are not
limitless... He's doing great work with Slack though... And yes GNOME is
truly harder to maintain than KDE - that is a fact...
Anyway I'm looking forward to the upcoming GNOME 2.12 ... May the
Source be with You ALWAYS ;)
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