More gnome 2

[ewx]

...and it still forgets random bits of its own configuration. So a clunkier user interface, long-standing bugs unfixed, and a painful upgrade procedure from Gnome 1. I'm struggling to see the point here.

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[cjwatson]

GNOME 2's user interface design has been, shall we say, not widely applauded. Unfortunately GNOME 1 is now unmaintained, so rock, meet hard place. *sigh*

[mjg59.livejournal.com]

It has the advantages of actually being managable and not scaring new users too much. And mostly working. It does what it sets out to do very well - it's a relatively attractive interface that can be made to look pretty if you want to, and lets you fill up your screen with terminals if that's what you want. It's also actually got accessibility code, which is why any hope KDE has of being the predominant UNIX desktop is gone. QT 4 is around a year away, which means an accessible KDE is ~18 months. Which is unfortunate.

But the amount of configurability sucks if that's your sort of thing, yes.

GConf is, however, the best thing ever.

[reddragdiva]

KDE treats me right. Once I switch off most of the eye-candy. And make sure a full set of Gnome and GTK libs have been installed.

[imc.livejournal.com]

I don't see the point either, which is why I use fvwm. :-)

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Gnome is not a window manager.