Re: Gnome 3 Discussions

[omegahalo-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (omegahalo@gmail.com)]

I kind of agree that we shouldn't need 4 applications to work our ipods.  This is always something that has driven me nuts about Linux.  My problem with the gnome 3 presentation is that while the developers "don't think people should need 4 applications to work their ipod" they didn't specifically answer what to do if you *do* need four apps to work the device.  We all know one application that does everything would be ideal, but since such an application doesn't exist what is a gnome3 user to do?

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From: "Jerry Feldman" <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
To: <discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
Subject: Gnome 3 Discussions
Date: Mon, Apr 25, 2011 2:01 pm


On 04/25/2011 11:19 AM, Rob Hasselbaum wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 1:24 AM, David Kramer <david-8uUts6sDVDvs2Lz0fTdYFQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> Of course this leaves me in a quandary, because I gave up KDE when 4
>> came out and the whole UI was turned into an array of candy-like icons
>> all nearly identical.
>>
>>
> As a KDE 3.5 user who took a reluctant sabbatical to GNOME when KDE 4.0 came
> out, I can tell you the situation is MUCH improved on the KDE side of things
> from those troubled days. KDE 4.6 is excellent and the "brand" has fully
> recovered as far as I'm concerned. I sympathize with the GNOME folks. This
> kind of project reboot is painful even if the long-term benefits are real.
> Hopefully they can recover, too.
Over the weekend I booted Fedora 15 Beta Live Cd from a memory stick on
my netbook. The netbook has a rather vanilla Ubuntu 10.10 on it so I may
upgrade it to Fedora 15 beta. The challenge out of the box is wireless.
The wireless did not come up under the LiveCD, but should come up under
a full installation or just pulling the current Atheros drivers. The way
the Gnome3 shell works is intuitive enough. In my experience I've gone
from early KDE to KDE 3.? when I got pissed and switched to Gnome, but I
also manage a Gnome-based installation. So far, I tend to like the new
Gnome3, but I have not explored it in detail, such as setting up
Thunderbird in place of Evolution, and other configuration items.


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