GNOME bad attitude

Posted Dec 14, 2005 10:38 UTC (Wed) by mepr (guest, #4819)
In reply to: GNOME bad attitude by dann
Parent article: GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition

wow. as my last post suggessts, I thought that was a joke (although I, too, was upset when "open new terminal" disappeared from right click).

and nautilus-open-terminal isn't available on debian sid.

BTW, ubuntu gnome fixes most of the worst decisions of the gnome team, such as by turning off spatial mode by default.

And that gives the lie to the idea stated repeatedly here that gnome misses features only because the developers don't have time. They tried to force spatial mode on users, and told people to use gconf-editor to turn it off. No, that doesn't have to be done once. Is it really that difficult to put an option in the nautlius preferences menu? But I read the email threads where gnome developers said that users needed to be forced to be taught to use the "right" way. But I tried the "right" way, and it was a horrible hack of a metaphore. It tried to do the old windows 3.1 thing of remembering where you placed the window for a given folder, which ignores the fact that where I want the window depends on what else is going on on the desktop at the moment, and when it didn't know where to put it, it usually ended up in BFE, such as at the edge of the monitor with most of the window hidden beyond the edge of the screen.

And good god! "middle click doesn't open another window!" What if I have a two button mouse?

and I'm still a loyal gnome user, because the look and feel is so elegant, and kde just has too many picky options to be practical. But it still finds a way to be a PITA.