Dale posted on Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:20:04 -0500 as excerpted: > Maybe I am a little OCD or something. Oh well, I always been a little > weird. lol
Maybe. But I think most folks would consider most Gentoo users a bit OCD. Otherwise, what would be the point of the extra work necessary for all that building from source? I know that's one thing I appreciate about both kde and gentoo. I'm a control freak (AKA I have OCD) when it comes to my own computer and I'm not ashamed to admit it, and both kde and gentoo have a philosophy that encourages creation of the levers necessary for a user to assert the level of control I like, while at the same time automating where it makes sense -- which is what a computer is /supposed/ to do! =:^) (FWIW, that's one thing that has me a bit puzzled about gentoo/gnome folks. Gnome is known for its "users are too dumb to know what's best for them" attitude toward configuration, and while there's certainly a place for such a centralized pre-made choices desktop environment, I've always had difficulty correlating that with gentoo's "the user gets the ultimate control, even to overriding our default policies if they see fit" mentality. To me, that has always seemed a FAR better match for kde's "if there's a scenario where a rational user could make a different choice, yes, set a rational default but expose that option to the user", attitude. Meanwhile, gnome and the ubuntu style seem to be perfectly logical matches -- tho it could have been predicted that someone like Shuttleworth would ultimately decide his centralized decisions made more sense than those of gnome. Perhaps that explains why kubuntu really hasn't worked out so well, too. It's simply not a particularly good match. I just don't see what a gentoo user would find of interest in a hand-tied desktop environment such as gnome, is all. <shrug> But obviously some find something worth the trouble.) -- 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 ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
