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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."
Why doesnt he pick on someone his own size? :(
Those poor gnomes.
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Nicholas Petreley uses the tired term "paradigm shift" in his article!
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That's why everyone uses that K something or other right?
(just a joke don't shoot)
"Nokia is not a country, it's the capital of Finland!" -Moderated "Informative". Yeesh.
"While this latest review is bound to be a polarizing and heavily debated issue (read flamebait)..."
And on that note...
KDE SuxXX0rz! GNOME 4Eva!!~!
--Kevin
I'm glad the author of the slashdot story managed to keep his biases concealed until the third word of the story. If the article had praised Gnome, however, why do I suspect we'd be hearing about "Esteemed technical journal ComputerWorld..."
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
I didn't know there was a registry in Linux...
This article is about as scarce on details as it can be while still managing to blast a piece of software into little pieces...the entire article is about Nautilus. One single "feature" in Nautilus. This isn't a review, it's nonesense.
If GNOME v. KDE flamewars are dead, then Netcraft has confirmed that BSD has been cremated.
Little tunnels where I live.
Pointy hat. Pointy hat.
Pointy hat hides my secrets.
Damn the garden spade!
Damn the garden spade!
(Nods to the applause of a dozen hipsters snapping their fingers)
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
I am not going to swear here, but I am MAJORLY pissed at gnome
Where I come from, most people would consider "pissed" a swear in the context in which you used it.
Me, I could give a fuckin shit either way.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
it would be a shame for this turn into a Gnome vs. KDE flamewar.
I use Windowmaker, you insensitive clod!
Trolling is a art,
"Hello!? Bloom Beacon?! This is Senator Bedfellow! What's with this *@#! HEADLINE?" ... just a headline!"
"Headline?"
"Yes! There's no story
"Which headline?"
"THE *BIG* HEADLINE ON THE FRONT PAGE!"
"Read it to me, Senator."
"BEDFELLOW: THE SECRET LIFE OF A WIFE-SWAPPING ATHEIST"
"Oh, that's just a typo."
I'm glad to see that slashdot is holds itself to the same high standards of journalism.
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
Well, at least you're in good company. You pick a computer, they try to balance the budget. ("Get 'im Soybean Subsidies! Th' ayes! Th' ayes! Claw the ayes aught! Whooyah!! Lookee that! Aye tellya boys, they'rell be no raise for the Libraian of Congress this year.")
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
"It was deliberately designed to protect users who are invariably too incompetent to pick their own colors but are smart enough to memorize shift-clicks and keystrokes or edit the registry to get Nautilus to work the way they like."
We have achieved GUI parity with the MAC!!
I would rather be ashes than dust!
Is that anything like dwarf tossing?
(Oh, I see, the subject should read GNOME in capitals. very misleading.)
I didn't say destroy, I said toast.
And toast is good! I mean, nothing like warm, slightly crunchy sourdough or rye, with a little butter and apple-mint jelly. MMMmmm! Gimme toast!
Damn, and all this time I thought you just use it to open emacs and your terminal sessions.
As an aside, I wan't aware that Gnome had a 'registry' (a la Windoze?)...I always thought you could just edit flat files...another shock for my delicate constitution.
Lodragan Draoidh
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it. - Mark Twain
They're not monkeys anymore. Novell bought Ximian and replaced all the monkeys with Mormons.
So, Nautilus has three totally unintuitive ways to enable "normal" file browsing. Interesting...
Mac fanatics are pussies. You haven't met a real fanatic until you've debated with an Amiga fanatic.