[arch-general] Gnome 3 + KDE 4 are both large disappointments.

[Martin]

On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 16:50:41 -0300, Dennis Beekman  
<d.c.beekman.devel at gmail.com> wrote:

Linux is about freedom. You have tons of WM and DE to choose from, I  
suggest to give a try to Xfce and LXDE. Both work almost the same as Gnome  
2 without the bloat.

Anyway, whining in Arch's discussion mail because of a DE decision seems  
wrong to me.



> I use linux becuase i think that windows is just to bloated to even be  
> considered ... but lately Linux has been going in the same direction  
> when it comes to the desktop enviroments Gnome 3 & KDE 4.
>
> Gnome 2 was brilliant just a simple easy to use system with load off  
> good looking features, gnome 3 however is useless in all respects as far  
> as i can tell from whats in testing.
>
> 1. You cannot change the panels anymore you stuck with the 2 given by  
> gnome 3.
> 2. Changing themes also is inpossible.. or so it seems.
> 3. Why do we need a system settings menu with all the options in one  
> menu ? where are my seperate icons i love so much ? why can we choose  
> wich icons or options we want ?
> 4. What about the people ho don't have or don't wich to use they're  
> video hardware to run the these stupid graphics ... are we stuck with  
> "fallback mode" wich is even more stupid and backward ?
> 5 Where did all the nice applets go ? and why can i not add them to my  
> taskbar anymore....
>
> [flaming]
> I though KDE 4 was bad  and bloated and that i couldn't get any worse...  
> it seems i was wrong.
> Boy this new Gnome version is even more bloated and buggy then KDE 4   
> wich is quite the atchievement from the gnome team...
>
> Now i finnaly understand why the Ubuntu guys decided to use they're  
> netbook unity system rather then this shit, eventhough unity sucks it  
> better then Gnome 3 in all respects.
>
> [/flaming]
>
> Can we not just keeps using the old version and ignore the new version  
> of gnome for now until they get they act together ? or hopefully decide  
> to go back to the old interface and develop that further instead ...
>
>


-- 
Martin