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Nicholas Petreley Slams Gnome
FreeLinux writes "Mainstream computer rag ComputerWorld, has posted a review of Gnome 2.6 by Nicholas Petreley. This opinion piece review, titled Living Down to a Low Standard, positively lambastes Gnome 2.6 over the new spatial Nautilus and Gnome's design choices. The review is quite the opposite to a previously reported review from PCWorld, last month. While this latest review is bound to be a polarizing and heavily debated issue (read flamebait), it is important in that this review will be seen by so many mainstream readers and corporate types who may have been considering Gnome."
...are amazingly off base and irrelevant!
I have to ask...Did he even use gnome 2.6?
I mean really "Of all the criticisms one might lodge against GNOME, it's the hypocrisy of its design philosophy that looms largest."
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. -- Hunter S. Thompson
First off, how the hell do you call this crap a review? It mentions one specific feature and is incredibly infactual in doing so. All it does is even _mention_ the feature, then bitch and bitch about all of GNOME sucks with no factual examples. The only examples given are outright lies. (For example, the reason you can't edit colors in the GUI is because nobody's bothered to write an editor for it yet. If someone submitted a patch, it would be a most welcome feature.)
This article is complete trash. The first paragraph alone makes that rather clear, and the past articles by the same author also make it clear. This guy takes every chance he gets to insult GNOME.
Here's a public response by one of the ArsTechnica folks.
Gnome looks/works ok. I have to say I prefer XFCE, but I don't expect that opinion to be universal. One thing I positively hate about Gnome is Nautilus. It is vile. Preventing it from popping up in your startup session is like snapping snot off your fingernail. It leaves .directories everywhere, like a slug trailing slime! Please will someone drive a stake through this thing's heart?
an ill wind that blows no good
I am not intending to start a KDE vs. Gnome flamewar, but seriously. I agree with the guy 100%, and his point is completely valid. The Gnome project somehow manages to become worse with every version, when it has never been that good to begin with.
Spatial nautilus is a horrible idea, period. The interface is too minimalist, and every option needs to be changed through some obscure method like Gconf because the interface is "simplified".
If you really like Gnome, that just means you have never tried to use KDE for longer than 10 minutes. Gnome can best be compared to a Yugo -- ugly and clunky.
People who know how to communicate know that abusive reactions are the responsibility of the person reacting. Anyone can pull the trigger on flames at any message conveyed. Even controversial statements about a "polarizing and heavily debated issue" receive reasonable replies from responsible people. So what is this "flamebait" verdict that increasingly overrides interest in important matters on which many people disagree strongly? Since when has the Slashdot demographic ("nerds") preferred to go along with popular happy talk, rather than deal directly with facts and unpopular opinions? Flames are in the minds of the flamers, not in the bait of the comments.
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make install -not war
If you dont like it, just email him...
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nicholas@petreley.com
When you let Sun's codemonkeys at GNOME. Sun does (or did) some great stuff, but the software isn't so hot.