Questions for deployments of GNOME [LWN.net]

Questions for deployments of GNOME

Posted Jun 10, 2006 11:34 UTC (Sat) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767)
In reply to: Questions for deployments of GNOME by philips
Parent article: Questions for deployments of GNOME

Other than the totally brain dead act of making spatial the default for Nautilus, I have rather come to like the new simplified Gnome. I support a lot of desktop users, with new users being added regularly. The new users take to Gnome fairly readily and I attribute that to the UI improvements made over recent years.

I use it myself for 2 reasons:

1. I believe in eating my own dogfood. If my users use it, so will I.
2. I like it.

However, I understand that some people want every little detail customized to their liking. And to that end, Gnome is but one choice. KDE has a different philosophy. And then there is E.

Personally, I have to move around from desktop to desktop a lot, so I've found that it really pays to get myself used to using default settings. Otherwise, I'd spend all my time configuring and have no time for actual work!

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Questions for deployments of GNOME

Posted Jun 10, 2006 20:30 UTC (Sat) by philips (guest, #937) [Link] (6 responses)

> Otherwise, I'd spend all my time configuring and
> have no time for actual work!

I'd rather once spend one week configuring my desktop, rather then have it constantly eating five minutes out of every my working hour. Former is the case for KDE. Later is the case for GNOME.

PS At last, I hope by now GNOME got shortcut to minimize window and window minimizition animation finally got fixed.

Questions for deployments of GNOME

Posted Jun 11, 2006 17:07 UTC (Sun) by tomsi (subscriber, #2306) [Link] (2 responses)

What is it in Gnome that eats away 5 minutes every hour ? I am curious, as I use both KDE and Gnome and don't find them that different.

Questions for deployments of GNOME

Posted Jun 12, 2006 14:41 UTC (Mon) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]

It's amazing, the silence you get when you ask for specifics, isn't it?

Questions for deployments of GNOME

Posted Jun 12, 2006 17:11 UTC (Mon) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link]

What is it in Gnome that eats away 5 minutes every hour ?

See http://lwn.net/Articles/187257/ below for an example.

Questions for deployments of GNOME

Posted Jun 11, 2006 20:33 UTC (Sun) by Frej (guest, #4165) [Link]

There has always been a minimize shortcut.
Or maybe i spend 20 minutes to set it up.

Questions for deployments of GNOME

Posted Jun 12, 2006 14:52 UTC (Mon) by jeld (guest, #22397) [Link] (1 responses)

Yes, that works if you have the same system every time. If I have to spend a week to customize to my liking every client desktop I happen to work with, I will be out of a job :)

Questions for deployments of GNOME

Posted Jun 12, 2006 17:23 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Keep your config somewhere network-accessible and suck it down when neeeded. :)