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GNOME in the Year of the Monkey

Posted by michael on from the timmah! dept.

An anonymous reader writes "GNOME Foundation's Tim Ney describes some of the project's efforts marking the Lunar New Year of the Monkey with a tip, "Never sit with your back to a lobbyist for proprietary software." GNOME is rapidly becoming popular in developing countries and you can donate to help."

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  1. Gnome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Do people still use Gnome? My friends finally got me to try Linux a couple of weeks ago, and I did an FTP install of SuSE 9.0. As a newcomer to Linux who has tried both, I have NO idea why anyone would choose Gnome over KDE.

    KDE is sweet. The widgets are cleaners, but most of all, things are where a life long windows user like myself expects them to be.

    Anyhow, I'm converted to Linux forever - but it seems like the community's time would be better spent supporting a single GUI like KDE.

    Thanks,
    Eric

    1. Re:Gnome by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 0, Flamebait
      Options. Apart from Gconf, GNOME comes with far less options.

      Let me guess... your grandfather must have worked for Henry Ford painting model Ts.

  2. Re:Year of the Monkey cant be that good... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Gnome has developers?

  3. Another QT vs. Gtk debate.... by bangular · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I think it's really dumb so many companies are backing gnome when, it's really an inferior window manager. First of all, it's a package maintainers nightmare. Gnome is split up into eleventy twelve bazillion packages. While Kde really only needs QT, Kdelibs, and Kdebase to get up and running. QT is more mature, more stable, and simple a better toolkit than Gtk. Gtk is much more of a pain in the ass to program in than QT. Gnome was a project that came out of RedHat... 'nuff said ;-) KDE has more to it. Things like KHtml and the kde regular expression library. A browser that's much more integrated into the wm than Galeon (have you tried the latest KDE rc? Konq opens faster than IE on windows). KWallet is awesome. Not saying Gnome should go away. It's got some good individual packages. IIRC, Gnome is responsible for the XML related packages for linux. But why are so many supporting Gnome while ignoring KDE when it is such a great wm.

  4. 21 reasons why Gnome sucks! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Discalimer : This not troll or flamebait, it is an OPINION and I as an Anymous Coward am entitled to have one! If you disagree visit anti-slash.
    1. Its named after people who live in my garden
    2. It hides all the options
    3. Nautlilus has too much eye candy and no functionallity like split pane, command line support, integrated web browser and so on
    4. Bruce perens use it
    5. It is a crappy Mac clone
    6. Its file dialog is from Windows 1.01
    7. It contains a fish
    8. It is fragmenting the linux market
    9. You cant change the colour scheme
    10. You have to use a registry editor
    11. Resizing windows is buggy
    12. Its Zip program wont let you extract files from the context menu
    13. It removed tear off menu suport
    14. Its Web browser has no bookmark system
    15. It claims to have human interface guidelines, yet anyone can see that it blatently violates them, eg the Foot menu
    16. Its support for i18n is poor
    17. ]
    18. It dosent let you have multiple wallpapers
    19. Developers dont like it
    20. It only has 30% of the Linux market share
    21. GTK is slow, hard to write for (even with language bindings) and has no decent themes
    22. It is dying!
  5. great to see by Hemorrhoids · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    it is great to see gnome doing so welll! it is my fav. desktop distro, much preferential to kde