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[Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Paul Fisher <carpfisherj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's an old guy thing in my humble opinion. I turned 50 this year and have
> been using Linux since 1994 or 95. If it's not Openbox or something else
> minimal it is in my way. To test and to be able to assist others on the
> Ubuntu forum I have used and tried to like the new GUI's. Not much to spark
> my interest. I don't want a fork of these GUI's I want things like dropbox
> and Amazon music downloads to function without jumping through hoops and
> wearing bells to work.

While I agree with you (putting my Fluxbox hat on), I think that's the
point of GNOME 3 / KDE4. Their expressed aim was to revamp the user
interface to better suit the majority of users.

I mean, take one look at their website (gnome3.org) - the webpage's
title is "Made of Easy", and two of the the big headings are:

DISTRACTION-FREE COMPUTING
EVERYTHING AT YOUR FINGERTIPS

I think they just have shitty use cases and UI designers. Great
intent, executed poorly.

In this hacker's humble opinion, of course.

While (admittedly) I don't abhor GNOME3, I disagree with some
decisions they've made. To be fair, I work just as well without X, so
I'm not sure i'm a good guideline, anyway.

>
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Jacob Peddicord <jpeddicord@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Michael Gilbert
>> <michael.s.gilbert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Or fix it ;)
>>
>> The removal was intentional:
>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630226
>>
>> In any case, there's plenty enough to like about GTK 3, GNOME 3, and
>> all other things 3, to make the experience worthwhile.
>>
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Go Bucks!
Paul

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