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GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010
supersloshy writes "Contrary to popular opinion, GNOME 3 will not be released in March next year. It has been delayed until September 2010, six months later. According to the news message, this is because 'our community wants GNOME 3.0 to be fully working for users and why we believe September is more appropriate.' GNOME 3's main goal is to re-define the ways people interact with the desktop, mainly through a new UI design (currently called 'GNOME Shell'), while GNOME 2.30, set for release in March, will have a focus on being stable. An early visual tour of GNOME 3 has been posted at Digitizor."
If the GUI changes aren't controversial enough the fact that it is based on Mono will probably kill it.
Don't get me wrong: I love KDE3.
But I think it's a good idea of them, to not repeat the "fun" with the KDE 4.0 misunderstanding. And the "more fun" of KDE 4.3 still being pretty much unusable for an experienced KDE3 user.
If only the GNOME team would care for things like choice (= building in options/configurability), and that part of the Gaussian curve that does not want dumbing down to unusability... (which sadly now is half the hype with KDE4 too.)
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
iTunes actually works, unlike Amarok, which not only looks real shitty, but can randomly crash or not play your music at all. Impressive. And it's all about the whole sales model thing. Buying songs, downloading podcasts, having an extension called iPod. You know. The stuff everybody loves. Except you, the Linux fanboy (probably) that can't even watch podcasts because you probably don't even have video on your computer, because, in all these years, for all the whooppeeee I'm a "Linux hacker", we've not seen any fucking decent codecs from this community chock full of genius programmers who, I'm guessing, is full of C hackers that don't even grok a Fourier transform, so how the fuck are they gonna deliver us some cutting edge wavelet algorithm for video/audio? That's right. Can't do it. Too hard. You can't be a "hacker", you gotta actually know shit, otherwise you do like the GNOME dudes, you produce failure. Not enough incentives. For you. Apple's got 'em. Microsoft's got 'em. What does F/OSS have? GCC? I know, I know. The terminal. Yeah, you're terminal.
Main difference between the BSD license and the GPL license: one is from California and the other is from Massachusetts
I can see why you posted anonymously. This is fucking retarded.
The problem with relying on people that are motivated by their inspiration is that you tend not to get "normal." You have to pay people to work on "normal". Refining and polishing is not fun. Inventing your own bespoke miracle from whole cloth and taking it no more than 10% of the way to functional before you lose interest and wander off is infinitely more fun.
Gnome 2.x has been in use and under active development for seven years. KDE 3 was in use and under active development for six years. My God, however shall we handle such rapid and radical change? Let's all go back to OS/2!
KDE 4 is and ongoing failure. I haven't bothered to get my hands on 4.3 yet because 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2 killed all hope. They haven't had the 5 years it's going to take to fix what's wrong with 4.x.
Even one example might make you sound a little less stupid.
I'm sticking with 3.5.x until that interval has passed.
You're retarded.
The vast collection of background services sucking down hundreds of MB of RAM doing who the hell knows what is also on-going and ever worsening problem.
OMFG, not hundreds of MB of RAM! Maybe it's because the rest of us want to do shit! If you don't have hundreds of MB of RAM just sitting there waiting for something to do (it is 2009, asshole) then go back to XFCE and STFU.
Both systems pollute home directories with vast file hierarchies hidden in dot-file directories making a shared NFS home a practical impossibility.
Every piece of KDE config lives in ~/.kde or ~/.kde4 depending on how your distribution set it up. All of it. One folder. Shut up shut up shut up your stupid stupid mouth.
Just boot XP and clone Windows Explorer, mkay...? A badly done clone of Explorer would trump anything Gnome/KDE has produced to date wrt file management.
My God, the bullshit's getting deep in here. Microsoft has yet to replicate the functionality that Nautilus and Konqueror had five years ago. If you really want a power tool, use Krusader like the real men do. And shut the fuck up.
Hey, I finally got my first freak! Took you long enough!