On 12/12/2011 11:52 AM, Rich Braun wrote:
Derek Martin commented:
It's clear to me that the desktop has improved in the last 15
years or so, but frankly the improvements since then have only
been marginal, and on the whole I believe I was more satisfied
with my simple FVWM configuration. The one thing I give the
Gnome people is that it is much less work for me to get an
environment that satisfies my basic need
The whole concept of a window environment as pioneered at Xerox PARC gave us
the basic need. There's only so many ways you can throw rectangular boxes of
content onto a 2-dimensional screen. So improvements from the time they were
invented to the distant future will always be "marginal".
I wish I could marginalize the Gnome "Find me if you can" disappearing
scrollbar that's 3 pixels high. I wish the "disappearing" application
selection bar wouldn't cover the left side of my display every time my
mouse wanders within an inch of the left border. I wish I didn't have to
reinstall using KUBUNTU just to get a "stays where I put it" desktop.
Long story short, someone needs to tell Ubuntu that change for the sake
of change is not necessarily a good thing.
Bill "Excuse me while I vent" Horne
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