GNOME 2.22 released [LWN.net]

GNOME 2.22 released

Posted Mar 14, 2008 9:29 UTC (Fri) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263)
In reply to: GNOME 2.22 released by alecs1
Parent article: GNOME 2.22 released

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.

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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.

:)