Duncan wrote: > 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.) > >
We got that in common I guess. Poor us. lol I do wish KDE would hurry up and let me disable the "random" feature on the slide show for my background/wallpaper. I have pictures that are intended to be a slide show and having them in random order makes the pictures not make sense. I have Fluxbox installed as a back up GUI but I do like the features and control that KDE gives. It's a full function GUI but you can disable or get rid of most stuff a user doesn't need. Of course, unlike you I leave about everything turned on. I'm just hoping they get all the issues we are having sorted out pretty soon. I want to be able to logout without closing stuff and have my slide show in the right order. Dale :-) :-) ___________________________________________________ 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.
