Comments on: On desktop re-invention http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2011/04/24/on-desktop-re-invention/ World Organi[sz]ation Of Broken Dreams Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:35:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Uneigo http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2011/04/24/on-desktop-re-invention/comment-page-1/#comment-134970 Uneigo Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:52:01 +0000 http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/?p=1104#comment-134970 How is KDE not a standard desktop? It has a "Start Button", a taskbar, and a notification tray. You could make it look exactly like Microsoft Windows if you wanted (95-XP out of the box, or Vista-7 with Smooth Tasks or other taskbar replacement). The big difference between KDE 3 and KDE 4 is the plasma widgets, but that's a customization feature, and you can ignore it if you want to, and I suspect most people do exactly that. (KDE also has a netbook version, but it is not the default. And that is how GNOME should have treated the Shell too, and ditto with Canonical and Unity.) How is KDE not a standard desktop? It has a “Start Button”, a taskbar, and a notification tray. You could make it look exactly like Microsoft Windows if you wanted (95-XP out of the box, or Vista-7 with Smooth Tasks or other taskbar replacement). The big difference between KDE 3 and KDE 4 is the plasma widgets, but that’s a customization feature, and you can ignore it if you want to, and I suspect most people do exactly that.

(KDE also has a netbook version, but it is not the default. And that is how GNOME should have treated the Shell too, and ditto with Canonical and Unity.)

]]> By: marboog http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2011/04/24/on-desktop-re-invention/comment-page-1/#comment-134969 marboog Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:31:00 +0000 http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/?p=1104#comment-134969 Definately need to tell this to Gnome idiot developers. And also tell KDE to stop this nonsense as well. Most people are going to end up using XCFE desktop because that will be the last standard desktop left at this rate. Definately need to tell this to Gnome idiot developers. And also tell KDE to stop this nonsense as well. Most people are going to end up using XCFE desktop because that will be the last standard desktop left at this rate.

]]> By: Sanders http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2011/04/24/on-desktop-re-invention/comment-page-1/#comment-134967 Sanders Mon, 25 Apr 2011 04:26:29 +0000 http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/?p=1104#comment-134967 "Repeat until the wheel re-invention exercise stops." It won't stop Gnome people is just stupid, why do I say this? Well take the cancel button for example, they think they did a clever thing removing it from every single dialogue. They would happily lose 60% of their user base and still not fix the damn thing. “Repeat until the wheel re-invention exercise stops.”

It won’t stop Gnome people is just stupid, why do I say this?

Well take the cancel button for example, they think they did a clever thing removing it from every single dialogue.

They would happily lose 60% of their user base and still not fix the damn thing.

]]> By: Podsgrove http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2011/04/24/on-desktop-re-invention/comment-page-1/#comment-134966 Podsgrove Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:03:56 +0000 http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/?p=1104#comment-134966 As the engineers say: if it works, don't fix it. Let's hope Gnome 2 remains available for those of us who want to get on with what we have to do distraction free. As the engineers say: if it works, don’t fix it.
Let’s hope Gnome 2 remains available for those of us who want to get on with what we have to do distraction free.

]]> By: Chris http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2011/04/24/on-desktop-re-invention/comment-page-1/#comment-134964 Chris Sun, 24 Apr 2011 19:17:30 +0000 http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/?p=1104#comment-134964 Us Linux users a sorry bunch indeed; especially you. If it wasn't called GNOME 3 but Mac OS XI, and if it came only on shiny new computers that cost a whole lof of money, and if - finally - uncle Steve would have told the world how lucky we were to be allowed to touch those computers-made-for-gods with our grubby mitts -- then everybody would praise uncle Steve's genius for giving us this new, revolutionary, awesome operating system. As it is, GNOME is just free, everyone can get it, everyone thinks that he would have done better than the GNOME developers, yadda, yadda. One sorry bunch. Us Linux users a sorry bunch indeed; especially you.

If it wasn’t called GNOME 3 but Mac OS XI, and if it came only on shiny new computers that cost a whole lof of money, and if – finally – uncle Steve would have told the world how lucky we were to be allowed to touch those computers-made-for-gods with our grubby mitts — then everybody would praise uncle Steve’s genius for giving us this new, revolutionary, awesome operating system.

As it is, GNOME is just free, everyone can get it, everyone thinks that he would have done better than the GNOME developers, yadda, yadda.

One sorry bunch.

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