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Project GoneME Fixes Perceived Gnome UI Errors
An anonymous reader writes "Project GoneME is the first attempt to try moving the GNOME Desktop into a new direction. The intention is to create a community of people, who are willing and interested to help fixing issues brought up by people for a very long time and make the vision of a usable Desktop in the means of good old Unix fashion become true. In case you are interested to help, please join the project. Plenty of people have shown interest and welcome this step and the IRC channel got filled up within a short time." Update: 07/26 02:33 GMT by T : A project mailing list has been set up for anyone interested in taking part in this endeavor.
Isn't this only going to really amount to anything if it does turn into a new Gnome fork?
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" -- HST
... and gnome's response?
Force everyone to beginner mode.
This is why everyone I know absolutely despises GNOME now. Because it's this retarded childish thing that can't even be configured properly (people expect apps to have moronic configuration out of the box, but usually at least it can be fixed.)
Case in point: Spacial Nautilus. It's a moronic idea. Just plain idiotic. Everyone absolutely despises it. It's a retarded throwback to file managers in 1985, which, you guessed it, sucked. This is why every major GUI switched over to a browser/tree based file manager years ago and dumped the new-window-for-everything idiocy. In fact, way back in... 1985, I seem to recall that everyone went and found replacement file managers which didn't do that, too. The two-pane ones seemed popular.
What did gnome do? "Wow! We INVENTED a new paradigm! We're going to make it like a Mac in 1985!"
Umm, no, they copied an old paradigm that everyone hates.
And worse? There's no button to turn it off. You have to actually hunt through undocumented keys in the windows^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hgnome registry trying to find the button to put the file manager into the unsupported normal mode.
W.T.F.?!
The gnome project these days is a good example of the horrors that happen if you, as a developer, are actually dumb enough to listen to human interface design people. Usually, these types are overblown nitwits who've never used a computer in their life, and base all their design decisions (if they even make decisions, instead of making gobble gobble sounds and talking about paradigms) on some focus group that was trying to discover whether computer illiterates can bungle their way through an interface quickly.
Generally, the only people really qualified to make good computer interfaces are software developers. The problem is, they're just too lazy to do it because UIs are boring. so, people do stupid things like put graphic artists in charge, when what they should be doing is offering free beer and unnecessary nudity as an incentive for quality coding.
How about config options for everything, with 2 sets of defaults? Or a load-setting-from-file mechanism; something akin to the theme engine?
Tim