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Dricot: A freasy future for GNOMEDricot: A freasy future for GNOMEPosted Aug 11, 2012 12:53 UTC (Sat) by ewan (subscriber, #5533)In reply to: Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME by danieldk Parent article: Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME
"let alone, force users to switch to another desktop"
I think you're overestimating how hard is is to switch from Gnome 2 to a suitably configured KDE4. They're not radically different approaches; it's much less of a jump than moving to something as conceptually different to either of them as Gnome 3 is.
As long as you can give people something that works roughly the way they're used to they're not going to worry if it looks a bit different. KDE is flexible enough that you should be able to provide people with something that's similar enough to the old setup that they can find their way around.
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Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME Posted Aug 11, 2012 14:12 UTC (Sat) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link] It's a nice theory, but to make it workable for most people someone would need to deploy a simple "run this" or "install this package" setup tool which configures KDE4 to be as GNOME2-like as possible. It's a hard sell because, in the end, it's all about the applications and it seems like applications associated with GNOME are being gutted into unrecognizably. So, again, it's either "Stick with the old version," or upgrade and lose, or switch to something else and be unhappy.
Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME Posted Aug 13, 2012 13:10 UTC (Mon) by Thanatopsis (guest, #14019) [Link]
I'm making the switch with my customers. The consensus among them is Gnome 3 sucks and they don't want it. Fortunately they are currently running Gnome 2 + compiz + glx-dock for their basic desktop. The switch to KDE + glx-dock is not too dramatic. They love Lancelot for the menus. Initial feedback is good. I do worry that the Gnome people will ruin applications like Evolution the way they are others like Nautilus.
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