Mark Shuttleworth interview (Linux Format) [LWN.net]

Mark Shuttleworth interview (Linux Format)

Posted Oct 4, 2006 14:21 UTC (Wed) by ajross (subscriber, #4563)
In reply to: Mark Shuttleworth interview (Linux Format) by rsidd
Parent article: Mark Shuttleworth interview (Linux Format)

rsidd: No it's not stale. Read the wikipedia page I linked to. That page is there for a reason.

I did. It says, in no uncertain terms:

You do not need to do anything to enable viewing of Indic text in Gnome 2.8 or later.

rsidd: Every GNOME installation I've seen has "cancel/ok" by default.

Sorry, but Gnome applications don't have OK buttons. They have an affirmative action, always explained in the label (e.g. "Save"), and it is always in the bottom right corner for consistency (because there may be more than one way to "cancel" or "negate" a dialog choice). This is sane, well considered, and consistent. You may not like it, and there may even be some good reasons why you do not like it. But calling it "stupid" as you did (especially since you clearly don't understand the issue) seems like mindless flaming to me and not reasoned argument.

Just stop. You like KDE better, and your are more than welcome to tell us why. But you are going beyond merely stating a preference, and making arguments about Gnome (the desktop you don't use) that are misleading at best and in some cases simply not true. This is called "flaming" or "spin", and only makes you look like an immature fan boy.

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Mark Shuttleworth interview (Linux Format)

Posted Oct 5, 2006 11:49 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

To be fair, the changed button order in GNOME 2 *was* contentious and the source of considerable flamage on the gnome lists at the time: what's more, the flamage was halted by a blatant argument from authority ('that's the way Apple does it'). Small surprise that some people consider this somewhat weak...