On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Paul Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > It's an old guy thing in my humble opinion. I turned 50 this year and have > been using Linux since 1994 or 95. If it's not Openbox or something else > minimal it is in my way. To test and to be able to assist others on the > Ubuntu forum I have used and tried to like the new GUI's. Not much to spark > my interest. I don't want a fork of these GUI's I want things like dropbox > and Amazon music downloads to function without jumping through hoops and > wearing bells to work.
While I agree with you (putting my Fluxbox hat on), I think that's the point of GNOME 3 / KDE4. Their expressed aim was to revamp the user interface to better suit the majority of users. I mean, take one look at their website (gnome3.org) - the webpage's title is "Made of Easy", and two of the the big headings are: DISTRACTION-FREE COMPUTING EVERYTHING AT YOUR FINGERTIPS I think they just have shitty use cases and UI designers. Great intent, executed poorly. In this hacker's humble opinion, of course. While (admittedly) I don't abhor GNOME3, I disagree with some decisions they've made. To be fair, I work just as well without X, so I'm not sure i'm a good guideline, anyway. > > On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Jacob Peddicord <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Michael Gilbert >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Or fix it ;) >> >> The removal was intentional: >> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630226 >> >> In any case, there's plenty enough to like about GTK 3, GNOME 3, and >> all other things 3, to make the experience worthwhile. >> >> -- >> Jacob Peddicord >> http://jacob.peddicord.net/ >> https://launchpad.net/~jpeddicord >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > -- > Your friend and Linux Pusher > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > Go Bucks! Paul -- All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors. #define sizeof(x) rand() :wq _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
