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GNOME 2.22 released
GNOME 2.22 released
Posted Mar 14, 2008 7:50 UTC (Fri) by alecs1 (guest, #46699)In reply to: GNOME 2.22 released by Los__D
Parent article: GNOME 2.22 released
If people ask for those features then they are not useless. I can write C and even wrote a few hundred lines of C programs using GTK+ (though I had not pleasure in that :( ). So if I would come up with a 500 lines patch adding that rename feature, just to prove that this is not like writing a new Gnome or adding imense complexity, probably some people would give up this smartass attitude "Gnome is not useless features and clutter, it is user friendly". How much would add this feature? 2 KB of code and less than 1 KB executable size? How about providing access to more settings? An extremely dirty example: drag and drop some widgets, write some labels and some tooltip text, making some connections to the pool of settings.
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GNOME 2.22 released
Posted Mar 14, 2008 9:29 UTC (Fri) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263) [Link]
It has nothing to do with code size, or code complexity, it's an UI issue. Take KDE's control panel (At least 3.5, haven't seen 4, but I've heard they're starting to adopt some of GNOME's ideas for that), it's a complete mess. Now, I agree that sometimes GNOME is erring too much on the side of simplicity, but I like that a LOT more than on the side of complexity where it's not needed.
GNOME 2.22 released
Posted Mar 14, 2008 20:41 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Of course, a lot of us stopped using GNOME at the GNOME 2 transition because all that nice simplicity made it impossible for us to work the way we were used to: the configurability we were relying on had vanished, and we had to work the way the GNOME devs wanted us to. Given how rarely the control panel gets used (personally I get my settings just right and then change them very occasionally), a bit of clutter in there, in exchange for extra configurability, is more than worth it.
GNOME 2.22 released
Posted Mar 15, 2008 5:27 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
> Of course, a lot of us stopped using GNOME at the GNOME 2 transition because all that nice simplicity made it impossible for us to work the way we were used to: the configurability we were relying on had vanished, and we had to work the way the GNOME devs wanted us to. And to a lot of us Gnome before 2.4 or so (including 1.x stuff) was a unstable and/or confusing mess that was nearly unusable. :)