SpreadGNOME.org Launches

Posted Aug 24, 2006 22:37 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

From their perspective it seems to some of them that Gnome has a image and a bit of a social problem.

People complained copy/paste is broken.. So gnome fixed that. Windows-style copy/paste works as expected.

People complained drag-n-drop on the linux desktop sucks.. So gnome fixed that. Most everything works one way or another with drag and drop. Drag and drop files and folders into gnome-terminal. Drag stuff into the windows selection bar to switch windows and then drop into those window. Something unexpected may happen, but something usually does happen.

People complained about unified interface and buckets of odd and conflicting options all over the place.. So got all nazi-ish with the human interface guidelines and made everything as simple as they could. So now options they do have make sense and they work and the UI is unified.

So what happens whenever a slashdot story or digg story or anything else gest posted on the net about gnome?

You have a sort of mini-army of people showing up and talking how Gnome sucks. Their interface nazis. It's bloated. It's slow. It's made for newbies only. Spatial interface was a retarded idea etc etc.

Then you have people going around talking about how KDE does this or does that and how it's wonderfull and all that stuff. A lot of advocacy a lot of people following around developers in the KDE community giving positive feedback and stuff like that.

So they want some hype also. They want people to get interested in Gnome.

At least that's the impression I get.

So I'll do my Gnome fanboy part. :)

I like how the interface is unified. I like how keyboard buttons mostly match between applications. I like Spatial Nautilus. I like how I can choose browser mode nautilus easily. I like how I can open up a folder with over 200 directories of different album names in my ogg/flac collection and be able to find directories quickly just by typing out the first few letters of the name and hitting enter when it gets highlighted.

I like how I can just hit 'alt-f2' and launch programs by typing out the first few letters of their names. I like how desktop search is integrated into Deskbar applet. I like being able to find files quickly and easily with beagle. I like having my address book aviable there.. and dictionary searches, and program launching, and internet searches, and tomboy note searches. I like how different apps are being integrated well.

Can't help it. I feel obligated. :P

But what I do like most is how there is a choice. I like how people can choose... KDE vs Gnome vs XCFE vs Fluxbox vs Windowmaker & the Gnustep band vs whatever. And it works.

Remember how there was a time when you had to worry about weither or not your Window manager or other items were compatable with KDE or Gnome stuff?

For the sort of people that like jabbing themselves in their leg with a fork or setting fire to articles of clothing while wearing them can now also enjoy the fun of running Metacity in KDE!! Yeah for window manager standards!

I realy hope that Portland project works out and KDE and Gnome intergrate better together.

I like kaudiocreator. I like Amarok (sometimes).. but running KDE makes me want to slowly press my thumbs into my eyeballs. And for other people I know it's the oppisite is true.. they probably have usefull Gnome or GTK apps that they'd like to work in KDE environment better.

Posted Aug 29, 2006 0:43 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

That's not 'american' format at all. It's just a bugger up. The 0 before the 4 is a convention used to indicate year. '94, '83, '54, '03 etc.

American format is Month, day, year. For example:
January 1st, 1993
Or in short form:
1/1/93

Or you can eliminate the day when your specifying a target date were the specific day isn't paticularly relevent.
Jan 02 is January 2002. THAT is valid American-style date.

As in:
'I don't know for sure when I last expected to see him, maybe around Dec 04."