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Gnome Removed From Slackware

Posted by Zonk on from the quite-large dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "After long consideration, Pat Volkerding has removed GNOME from Slackware. Pat mentions in the -current ChangeLog that GNOME takes a lot of time to package, so this move should allow more time to be spent on the rest of Slackware." From the changelog: "Please do not incorrectly interpret any of this as a slight against GNOME itself, which (although it does usually need to be fixed and polished beyond the way it ships from upstream more so than, say, KDE or XFce) is a decent desktop choice."

3 of 761 comments (clear)

  1. Slow News Day by Lullabye_Muse · · Score: 0, Redundant

    We got one big Sony topic and then nothing and then a 6 month old piece which i think has been mentioned before.

  2. Re:KDE 3.4 by Nailer · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Many modern distros (I use Fedora) install and use sub-pixel rendering by default. Gnome (and IIRC KDE) also has a control panel option to control this.

  3. Re:Also from the Changelog by paranerd · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Personally, I dislike Gnome as a desktop experience and as a technology framework, while I still like some apps, and admit they put some good concepts on the table (but not lately). I tried to like it but I didn't. Even more, I think they got most things wrong, and also they upset long-term users lately.
    Mod Me: redundant

    Content: What he said.

    Addendum: I also tried to like Gnome because many of the people I admire like Gnome and I am not so narcissistic that I think I'm right about everything. But no matter how I tried I just could never enjoy using it. On my own machine I use fluxbox (I'm a minimalist as well as a control freak) and the CD distros I carry are KDE based. I'd have loved to have loved Gnome but...