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GNOME Ignoring its Own Users?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the get-the-data dept.

Jonathan writes "Some editorials were posted on the web the last few days about GNOME and its apparent lack of interest on user feedback, especially when GNOME pitches itself to follow a 'users first philosophy' in their press releases. OSNews started with an editorial about market research or lack thereof, Expert-Zone posted another one on how OSS must learn to take responsibility on its great success."

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  1. GNOME is bloated by erroneus · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Well, Okay, I'll requalify that statement with "GNOME's Nautilus is bloated." I know I am not the only one with this problem and it hasn't been addressed since people started saying it. Instead, over the months and years, it seems to have gotten worse. The only way to restore boot-fresh performance is to "killall nautilus" and let it start again.

    What I'd like to see is a file manager that is more like (and I hate to say this) Microsoft's Explorer. It's faster and doesn't seem to suffer from what I believe to be memory leaks. (Nautilus over time seems to eat up memory until you kill it.) I do tweak Nautilus to turn off all or as many frills as possible but that only extends life a little longer.

    And if it's helpful to know, I use FC3 and keep it as stock and up-to-date as possible.

    Are there any drop-in-replacements for Nautilus that solves my issues?

  2. Re:Inexcusable by Sheetrock · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It really is incredible. Who knew that getting something for nothing would be such a raw deal, unless the something was herpes?

    --

    Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
    -- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822-3.




  3. Re:Eugenia is a stupid whore, mostly by spankers · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Do you have pictures? :)

  4. Need Gnome Help by The+MESMERIC · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is not a troll.
    But a plea for help.

    My sister has Gnome now as her default desktop.
    I am tidying up the menu deleting entries on her personal account.
    While leaving the system menu and my account intact.

    I didn't want to RTFM simply because if I find anything unintuitive,
    she being a complete n00b will have an ever harder time

    So I've deleted every single entry in
    Desktop Preferences > Accessibility (using right click very intuitive)
    But the folder Accessiblity I can't delete directly (tried right click again and nada)

    How can I go about this?
    I see there is no Menu-Editor either.
    But people say Gnome is about easy and useabilty
    first and foremost.

    So let this be one example.
    I seriously don't want to emerge KDE,
    but if I can't do this simple thing - I might feel tempted.