On 04/21/2010 03:28 AM, Ananda Samaddar wrote:
Yes it was an unfortunate choice of words. I don't think GNOME is crap, I'm just not enamoured with the direction it seems to be headed in, i.e. GNOME Shell. I can do without shiny stuff like that. Previous to my switching to XFCE I was a GNOME user for a very long time. I reckon GNOME 3.0 will be just as much of a PR nightmare as KDE4 was and continues to be.
It frustrates me that core technologies can depend on a long list of dependencies for another desktop environment. Try installing gstreamer0.10-plugins-good if you're not running GNOME and you'll see what I mean.
Ananda
That I agree with 100%. I've moved all my boxes to Arch except my laptops (and a couple of stragglers) which are still running suse 11.0 (due to need of ATI fglrx 8.593 [8-9 release]). On suse I have the old gnome 2.22, on Arch we have gnome 2.30. There are a few quirks with gnome 2.22, but it is solid. At least configuring gnome like I do, I haven't noticed too much different in 2.30. I hope it stays that way. Nobody wants to see a kde4'ing of gnome :p (yes, I guess kde4ing is a lasting verb now...) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com