I kind of agree that we shouldn't need 4 applications to work our ipods. This is always something that has driven me nuts about Linux. My problem with the gnome 3 presentation is that while the developers "don't think people should need 4 applications to work their ipod" they didn't specifically answer what to do if you *do* need four apps to work the device. We all know one application that does everything would be ideal, but since such an application doesn't exist what is a gnome3 user to do?
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4GLTE smartphone ----- Reply message ----- From: "Jerry Feldman" <g...@blu.org> To: <discuss@blu.org> Subject: Gnome 3 Discussions Date: Mon, Apr 25, 2011 2:01 pm On 04/25/2011 11:19 AM, Rob Hasselbaum wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 1:24 AM, David Kramer <da...@thekramers.net> wrote: > >> Of course this leaves me in a quandary, because I gave up KDE when 4 >> came out and the whole UI was turned into an array of candy-like icons >> all nearly identical. >> >> > As a KDE 3.5 user who took a reluctant sabbatical to GNOME when KDE 4.0 came > out, I can tell you the situation is MUCH improved on the KDE side of things > from those troubled days. KDE 4.6 is excellent and the "brand" has fully > recovered as far as I'm concerned. I sympathize with the GNOME folks. This > kind of project reboot is painful even if the long-term benefits are real. > Hopefully they can recover, too. Over the weekend I booted Fedora 15 Beta Live Cd from a memory stick on my netbook. The netbook has a rather vanilla Ubuntu 10.10 on it so I may upgrade it to Fedora 15 beta. The challenge out of the box is wireless. The wireless did not come up under the LiveCD, but should come up under a full installation or just pulling the current Atheros drivers. The way the Gnome3 shell works is intuitive enough. In my experience I've gone from early KDE to KDE 3.? when I got pissed and switched to Gnome, but I also manage a Gnome-based installation. So far, I tend to like the new Gnome3, but I have not explored it in detail, such as setting up Thunderbird in place of Evolution, and other configuration items. -- Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss