On 1/18/08, Brian Cameron <Brian.Cameron at sun.com> wrote: > > I don't think GNOME is quite the hornets > nest of bugs that people seem to suggest. The GNOME 2.6 in Solaris 10 > is probably not the best version of GNOME to judge. Try GNOME 2.20 > in Nevada and you'll see how far we've come in the past few years.
Hm. I far prefer the gnome in S10; I've got a home system running SXCE which I use occasionally (rhythmbox is nice) but generally find that I can work far more effectively on an S10 system. And I haven't had a gnome failure under S10 for a year or more now. > I agree that there are some things that CDE does better than GNOME, > but overall I think most people will find that GNOME is a better, > more modern desktop than CDE. Especially in Nevada/OpenSolaris > where HAL integration makes automatic discovery of removable devices > work as you would expect. No more having to manually mount your USB > flash drive by hand in a terminal, as you need to do with CDE. (What does this have to do with CDE vs GNOME? That feature was added into S10 fairly soon after FCS and works for all desktop environments.) > While you may criticize GNOME for its overloaded colorful, bouncing > gimmicks, you can also criticize CDE for its 8-bit look and feel. > Most people left behind 8-bit graphics when they tossed their Atari > 2600. Likewise, its gray color palette reminds me of the world wide > web before people discovered you could set background/text color. > Overall, I think the CDE gives the impression of a slightly less > exciting desktop than Windows 3.0. I always found CDE horrible - like OpenWindows, it drove me to distraction after a few minutes. I far preferred tvtwm and them wmaker. My main criticism of GNOME really would be its blandness. But a corollary of that is that it doesn't get in your face or have any strong features that get on my nerves - and I use for real work just because of that. What I would like to see is more freedom to customize, and encouragement for more theming. (Look back 5-10 years, and see the energy back then that went into creation of themes for environments such as windowmaker. I just don't see that energy any more.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
