On Sunday 06 March 2005 20:57, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Speaking for myself: > > > > - GNOME has an alarming tendency to make like a supercharged VW > Beatle on a ice-slicked Colorado mountain road: continuous 360s > until it plunges headline over a 1500' abyss. The number of major > direction/architecture changes the project's been through, and the > willingless it's demonstrated to change allegiances (toolkits, > target audience, design intent, preferred application set) makes me > treat it like a rabid, pregnant, injured rhino: with a great deal > of cirucumspection but not necessarially with any intent to turn it > into a favorite house pet. > > - Another remarkably charming feature of GNOME is the way it > encourages the user to make fantastic journeys through unfamiliar > territory. Setting, say, MIME associations in your web browser > requires firing up a sort of bastardized psychopathic cross-breed > excuse of a file-mangler-cum-desktop-icon-manager, called Nautilus. > Then it's merely a straightforward matter of a half dozen > mouse-clicks, a newts eye, three waves of the rubber chicken > (counterclockwise -- this is often omitted by the user and is > contrary to the specs in the prior revisions docs). Browser proxy > specification is similarly conveniently located in another totally > separate application. > > Sometimes. You'll need to cross a few > swamps from time to time, though.
This was fun to read. Nice use of simile and metaphor. This reminds of of Joe Arruda; Mr. Zen. What ever happened to him? Bob _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
