On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 02:36:27AM +0000, Duncan wrote > FWIW, the australis thing never really affected me much. I had some > extensions (and configuration mania guified native options) changing > the look somewhat before, and have some extensions (and config mania > options) changing the look somewhat now. It did take me several hours > (between configuring and extension browsing) to get the new UI setup > to something I was comfortable with, but then I'm used to that any > time I change desktop (kde) major versions as well, and this was a > comparable change.
I had always customized Firefox's GUI to my own liking. When I first saw the Atrocious^H^H^H^H^H Austraulis gui, I said "No problem", I'll reconfigure it, like I've always done before". What really shocked me was not only the garbage gui, but the fact that you couldn't get a sane "classic" gui withing Firefox. The Firefox people obviously knew that users' first reaction would be to get rid of Australis, so they removed that ability. Extensions soon sprang up that sort of allowed you to go back to a sane desktop. But I didn't want to go that far. Australis was the breaking point. Attached is a sample of what the top of my Pale Moon gui looks like, which is how I used to do Firefax way-back-when. -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
