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On 12/12/2011 11:52 AM, Rich Braun wrote: > Derek Martin commented: >> It's clear to me that the desktop has improved in the last 15 >> years or so, but frankly the improvements since then have only >> been marginal, and on the whole I believe I was more satisfied >> with my simple FVWM configuration. The one thing I give the >> Gnome people is that it is much less work for me to get an >> environment that satisfies my basic need > The whole concept of a window environment as pioneered at Xerox PARC gave us > the basic need. There's only so many ways you can throw rectangular boxes of > content onto a 2-dimensional screen. So improvements from the time they were > invented to the distant future will always be "marginal". I wish I could marginalize the Gnome "Find me if you can" disappearing scrollbar that's 3 pixels high. I wish the "disappearing" application selection bar wouldn't cover the left side of my display every time my mouse wanders within an inch of the left border. I wish I didn't have to reinstall using KUBUNTU just to get a "stays where I put it" desktop. Long story short, someone needs to tell Ubuntu that change for the sake of change is not necessarily a good thing. Bill "Excuse me while I vent" Horne -- Bill Horne 339-364-8487
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