On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 16:20 +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > That said, he should have just used reportbug and let the maintainers > work it out :)
s/work\ it\ out/reject\ it\/won\'t\ fix\ it/ Sorry, but when I see things like this: http://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/desktop_architects/2007-February/001125.html being well thought out and then Mr. Perky Pants responding they way he does... serves very well to prove a point. Denial and "We are fine and well on our way!" has made me even more convinced the whole of any GNOME Team eats Havoc teachings like it was mana from $YOUR_HEAVEN, further degrading the whole GNOME experience for a user. I guess, even when someone really does try to be level headed and cool about the whole thing, they get shutdown exactly the same way I do... just a bit more gentle. As of today, I have switched to a different DE. Though I still use some of the GNOME integration, XFCE v4.3.99.2 has nearly everything I have been stripped of or never will be added in GNOME. Compositing that just works Triggers and Events Adjustable snap Multiple adjustments to smart window placements Light on resources (by more than 75% in some cases) Easily changeable defaults for many applications Friendly "pointy-clicky" settings managers for _all_ settings Friendly inter-operation with KDE and GNOME Stays out of my way when doing tasks Other things I don't care to add to this list. There are somethings that GNOME has the XFCE doesn't, but I can easily live with those missing (maybe I just haven't looked enough). And what caused me to switch? No not this little spat 'tween Linus and GNOME's dev team, but one of those "Never seen by Joss" happenings. I don't have it handy, but gconf was terminated as it was segfaulting and restarting 5+ (maybe more) times a second and then gnome-panel and nautilus and most other things needing a settings daemon choked. And no, this wasn't on a login, it just happened when I was watching a DVD using totem. I tried to logout and back in... but it continued to happen. Even a reboot (I though maybe some libraries may have been corrupted in memory) might fix it. Nope. So, I guess I am that black-sheep of the GNOME userbase that has magical "never before known or seen" problems. Adios to GNOME. At least the parts I can leave behind, which is most of it. And, to those of you that have responded to me privately in the past about my rants on Debian-Devel regarding GNOME being not apropos... don't bother this time. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
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