> [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...
Actually Phil's comments more or less EXACTLY mirror what Patrick has been saying for a long time. And also why he (Patrick) said he was content to no longer include it. Perhaps you should read what Patrick himself says again. 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 >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
