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GNOME Ignoring its Own Users?
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."
Impossible as that would imply that people are reading the article before posting.
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Now she became a troll because she no longer writes pro Gnome articles?
Never learn by your mistakes, if you do you may never dare to try again
I run GDM, so I clicked on the "Login" field and typed my name. Gnome ignored me! Completely. I was so frustrated, I thought about emailing the devs, but then I realized my keyboard was unplugged.
I'd rather have someone respond than be modded up.
The only reason there is less trolling there is because most of the articles are written in unreadably bad english. The only things people can comment on his how they can't understand what the author is trying to say.
No I am not going to even bother to RTFA. I agree with the first comment here that its trollware and flamebait.
Gnome is alot more consistant than KDE and Sun donated a large usability study for gnome to improve its UI. The results are already showing with each release.
KDE use to be alot more flexible, integrated feel, and easy to use, but that is no longer the case anymore. This is coming from a KDE fan.
KDE has menu's everywhere and its hard to find particular settings and the titlebars are way too big, menu's too big, some of the fonts are ugly, and the problems are numerous compared to earlier versions. I looked at the newest build of KDevelop a few months ago and the UI was unbearable compared to earlier versions. Try reading the documentation and reading your code at the same time? Screen space is eaten up.
I do not intend to start a flamewar here. My point above was Gnome may not be perfect but its rapidly improving compared to its rival. THe UI study from SUN and the new 2.x is alot better and each new release focuses on usability rather than just bug fixes or features.
I look at where its heading rather than where it is. In my book gnome is winning the war currently but I will wait until KDE 4.0 comes which is rumored to have a completely redone UI.
Gnome is logically designed and highly flexible. In my opinion the only thing it lacks or the number of apps like KDE and perhaps some equilivant of KAppFinder for menu updating. Under MacOSX and WIndows, when you install an app it is included automatically in the taskbar. In this day and age all modern versions of Unix come shipped with KDE or Gnome or both. Menu updating should be included.
Gnome is on the right path and will be on par with Windows if its not already.
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What a clueless bitch.
How is a single typing error ironic compared to the shoddy articles on OSNews?