T. Joseph CARTER wrote:
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 04:17:27PM -0800, Allen Brown wrote:
I didn't vote because I don't have a WM/Desktop that I like. I
just have ones I dislike to varying degrees.
I used to like Gnome, but they made it like the Mac and removed
much of the configurability. Well, sort of. It was a pain that
every few weeks Gnome would forget the configuration I had given
it. And editing those configuration files without using the GUI
appeared to be nearly impossible.
They did NOT MAKE IT LIKE THE MAC. The mac is more configurable today
than ever it was in the past. The knobs you shouldn't play with unless
you know what you're doing aren't visible, but they're there. In fact,
they were there back with the oldest macs. There were whole sites devoted
to doing things with your mac that the average user could never imagine
(ResExcellence for example), and now with MacOS X there are several such
sites describing how the use of Terminal.app (or iTerm or whatever) and
editing a couple of text files can do amazing things for you.
I don't know didly about the Mac. I showed the new Gnome to a Mac
owner and he said it was inspired from Mac. That was the extent of
what I meant by comparing it to a Mac.
And since that top menu bar (of Gnome) was not removeable (that I
could tell) and aways on top and always using the full window width
it made the desktop totally unacceptable to me.
--
Allen Brown
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