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."

Comments

Vicious

[two_stripe]

Why doesnt he pick on someone his own size?
Those poor gnomes. :(

Re:Vicious

[ThrasherTT]

Shouldn't your sig be:

Dont drink and derive. Alcohol and calculus dont integrate!

Re:Vicious

[identity0]

Obviously, you've never been attacked by a pack of wild Gnomes...

The horror! The horror! They came at me from every direction! There were sidebars everywhere! Pastel-colered icons went flying! When they were through, I was left without my precious KControls or KApps...

...and then a horde of Ximian monkeys showed up...

Don't RTFA!

[Anonymous Coward]

### Warning! ###
### CATCHPHRASE ALERT ###

Nicholas Petreley uses the tired term "paradigm shift" in his article!
[not that anyone will actually read the article...]

### CATCHPHRASE ALERT ###
### Warning! ###

Re:Don't RTFA!

[eclectro]

Nicholas Petreley uses the tired term "paradigm shift" in his article!

So, it's safe to say that the paradigm shift was embedded in the article??

Re:Don't RTFA!

[YU Nicks NE Way]

Yeah -- but that isn't half as scary as the fact that he used the word paradigm correctly is.

Unbiased

[Embedded Geek]

Mainstream computer rag ComputerWorld...

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..."

Re:Unbiased

[Dielectric]

No, you wouldn't, because there really isn't an esteemed technical journal for mainstream computing. The IEEE puts out some good stuff, but no one outside of the engineering community reads it.

I go to the cockfights when I need to make a decision on this sort of thing. I label one chicken Choice A and the other chicken is Choice B, and that has pretty much worked for me. This explains why I'm using a C-64 right now. That was one tough chicken.

Poetry (Freeform, of course...)

[Embedded Geek]

I am the Gnome.
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)

At long last!!

[TheLoneCabbage]

"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!!

Gnome slamming?

[lightspawn]

Is that anything like dwarf tossing?

(Oh, I see, the subject should read GNOME in capitals. very misleading.)

Re:Don't panic... it's not that bad

[Frothy Walrus]

They're not monkeys anymore. Novell bought Ximian and replaced all the monkeys with Mormons.