J.A.H. posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Fri, 09 Dec 2005 13:57:58 -0800:
> Gnome took out its menu editor. SMEG is masked on my computer. I did an > emerge with -S (edit.*menu)|(menu.*edit) and this is what I got... smeg > is the only package returned that will work. FWIW, my opinion but, Gnome taking out the ability for users to reasonably tweak it (without hand-editing text files or some something that reminds me of the MSWormOS Registry) is the reason I'm a solid KDE user. Gnome seems to be more and more targeted at corporate types that don't like the desktop messed with anyway, and AOLer types that are afraid or lack the initiative to change much anyway. KDE, OTOH, continues to allow the power user to tweak things to change what they want to change, menus and colors included, with the applets to change both of those part of kdebase. If you like tweaking stuff like menu layout, my guess is that you'll be happier with KDE anyway. (Of course, there are lighter alternatives, such as xfce, if desired, as well, but KDE matches my style better than the others seem to, in part because it's devs /allowed/ it to match my style, because I can still tweak it to do so.) I just have a thing against windowing environments with devs that are so sure they know better than I do what *I* want, that they are actually deliberately REMOVING functionality to ensure it's more difficult for me to get what I want than it was previously... One of the few non-KDE X apps I continue to use is PAN, because it actually put back IN the customizable hotkey functionality, due to user demand, after GTK2 removed it, because customized keyboard functionality didn't fit in with the Gnome2/GTK2 HID. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- [email protected] mailing list
