On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Andrew Cowie < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > What I find annoying about these conversations is that if you had gone > and bought an Apple with Mac OS X you would be perfectly reasonably > working through learning how to use a new Desktop and not complaining > about it at all. > > well... gnome is NOT apple/osx, apple/osx is a CLOSED system, designed to deliver one experience.... what was beneficial about gnome which had followed the philosophy of unix (and perl) that said, there's more than one right way to do it... it was about choice... if you are going to make personalisation too difficult, we might as well use osx... and dare i say, it's not windows people mostly moving to mac's, but linux desktop people! > But here we are admonishing the GNOME hackers had the temerity to do > something new and different. > kudos to them... but they made things less flexible... and that is the complaint... removing the left side bar now i have heard is near impossible... that to me is absolute rubbish! you going to force that type of UI stuff on me (not default it on me, which i have no issue with... but force it on me)... osx, here i come! (or better yet... for the moment, downgrade to gnome2... here i come). simran. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
