Yes, I completely agree. The Gnome people and the Ubuntu team with them, have gone completely off the rails with this one. Like KDE did before them. I'm about to install a new system for someone, and will put in something with Gnome 2. Debian 6 is my obvious choice, or Mageia maybe, and Mint seems to be very well regarded. Don't know if you noticed, Richmond, but the latest drop of Mint comes with a Debian base? That could be the best of all worlds.
There is a thoughtful review of Gnome3 here: http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/gnome-3.html and it has some other suggestions. One of them is the Red Hat based Scientific Linux which the author has previously given a rave review to - contrary to its name its a general purpose desktop. The advantage here is long term support for Gnome2 from Red Hat + most of the non-free addons needed to make life simple. And CERN is going to be around. Another suggestion which deserves serious consideration is to move to xfce. Its nice, its fast, its easy, its has lots of the good features Gnome2 used to have, and its run by people who do not for some crazed reason think everything with a screen has to look like an iphone. I think my Debian 6 users are going to have to move to xfce when and if the next release goes to Gnome 3. What has happened with both Gnome and KDE is an awful lesson about user interfaces. The way this works in the real world has nothing to do with Fitt's Law or whatever. It has to do with the fact that as people learn a certain way of working, they get better and faster at it. It may not be what we all think is 'the right' way of working. But very often this way of doing things, whatever we think about it, is a whole lot better, for them, than the upheaval of getting to 'the right' way. Its a lesson that any software developer ignores at his peril. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-Onanistic-Ocelot-tp3904410p3917888.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
