Slashdot Mirror
GNOME and KDE Devs Wrangle Over 'System Settings' Name
An anonymous reader writes "The developer of the KDE System Settings application has launched a formal complaint against GNOME for renaming 'Control Center' to 'System Settings' in GNOME 3.0. This developer is demanding that GNOME immediately change the name of their control panel area. Developers on both sides are now discussing this act."
[2]
No, really, this is ridiculous
KDE for breaking and rebuilding everything, while making it half-assed.
Gnome for dumbing-things down excessively (we may call it 'retarding-it-down')
Switched to XFCE. Next computer is going to be from that company from Cupertino
This whole kind of idiocy is why we can't have nice things...
how long until
go get a early pentium4 with 512 megs of ram, run gnome and then run xfce (try your best to not infect it with too many gnome libs) you will see what lighter means instantly
on a much more extreme example take my powermac 9600/300. yea its slow but perfectly usable in xfce, in fact I had to use it for a couple weeks when my main desktop took a dump, uses half of its 256 megs of memory and suits its needs as both a daily electronics bench machine and retro computer (its 14 years old). I installed *something* that installed and started a gnome process and it doubled the boot time and left me with like 3% free memory, then failed to load the application.
It's the politically correct term for "not so damned fat and bloated", although "leaner" might be more PC.
I thought it was silly too until I rtfa. KDE is right, it will cause problems for folks using both.
Free Martian Whores!