Xfce is not lightweight and seems to get slower the longer you leave it on. If you want lightweight yet still nice/configurable, go for something like LXDE.
I don't dislike Xfce, of course. It had an awesome configuration panel and IS a bit faster than Gnome. But really just a bit.
A nice way to do it is to show only half of the options by default, and show more and more as you change an "advanced configuration mode" setting, I think.
I'm not sure why Gnome choose to bury half the options.
You make a good point. If you're going to provide all these options, it's best to also provide a GUI that can access all of them.
This is why I'm surprised that smaller window managers like IceWM and LXDE lack a configuration interface for so many options when there are so many options to play with... Gnome at least provides half of them.
What, you're bitching about something this small? Gnome goes for the more minimal design where only the important options are shown, not every little thing you can think of. In fact, that's the big difference between Gnome and KDE.
I would have liked Gnome to be a bit more configurable in some places, but more options got available as new versions came out and I haven't used Gnome in a while now so I can't tell how much more it might have improved.
Finally someone who I can agree with. It doesn't matter if someone really likes or dislikes one or the other WM. If you can use multiple, that's a good bonus.
The teacher probably is afraid that the notes will be posted whereever and then used by the next generation of people learning from her. Of course, this is a stupid thing, because more notes being available means that the same knowledge is written down in multiple different ways, which gives people more of a chance to actually understand something. Plus the people who've done the course now have the knowledge so they could pass the information on somehow, anyway.
So that means you're either pirating Vista/Win7 or making sure that you have another PC with a legit, bought Windows license to install those versions of Windows on more than 1 PC? No wait, that second thing meant you paid for the OS.
If you put it like that, both being sarcastic and not being sarcastic can be true. Vista turned out bad, so people try alternative systems or stay with XP.
The big padding is considered good design, yes, but not giving the user the choice of having those big amounts of padding is a bad design choice on the other hand. The ultimate solution would be that Gnome auto-adjusts this depending on the found screen resolution. It's annoying to find hacks for this so everything is more visible on my 800x480 max resolution.
True, but even if you piss that 1% off, there is still 99% of other potential customers. It's not like that 1% is going to change back to Windows anyway.
The "obsession" is the fact that Flash takes over all the codec issues by having a video play in it in a standard format, I guess. Which is good for people who are too lazy to actually convert their videos to standard formats by themselves.
For example, YouTube automates the process of re-encoding the video for anyone to see. No need for the video creator to change the format, most likely.
"I don't know" belongs to the statement "I don't know WHAT solution there is". "I'm sure" belongs to the statement that "I'm sure there IS at least a solution". So, yeah.
A normal person? Wrong. This is the sort of thing that is going to happen when you give *nix to a person who is simply used to completely different tools and a different way of working.
A movie should be made out of it: someone encountering weird warning signs and them all happening in the most absurd ways possible. It'd be hilarious. Probably.
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But how do you imagine that people would test KDE 4 if distributions did not make them available early?
Backport repositories? Providing them as seperate packages next to the current major version?
Xfce is not lightweight and seems to get slower the longer you leave it on. If you want lightweight yet still nice/configurable, go for something like LXDE.
I don't dislike Xfce, of course. It had an awesome configuration panel and IS a bit faster than Gnome. But really just a bit.
A nice way to do it is to show only half of the options by default, and show more and more as you change an "advanced configuration mode" setting, I think.
I'm not sure why Gnome choose to bury half the options.
You make a good point. If you're going to provide all these options, it's best to also provide a GUI that can access all of them.
This is why I'm surprised that smaller window managers like IceWM and LXDE lack a configuration interface for so many options when there are so many options to play with... Gnome at least provides half of them.
What, you're bitching about something this small? Gnome goes for the more minimal design where only the important options are shown, not every little thing you can think of. In fact, that's the big difference between Gnome and KDE.
I would have liked Gnome to be a bit more configurable in some places, but more options got available as new versions came out and I haven't used Gnome in a while now so I can't tell how much more it might have improved.
Finally someone who I can agree with. It doesn't matter if someone really likes or dislikes one or the other WM. If you can use multiple, that's a good bonus.
You didn't mention Candlejack, did y
The teacher probably is afraid that the notes will be posted whereever and then used by the next generation of people learning from her. Of course, this is a stupid thing, because more notes being available means that the same knowledge is written down in multiple different ways, which gives people more of a chance to actually understand something. Plus the people who've done the course now have the knowledge so they could pass the information on somehow, anyway.
So that means you're either pirating Vista/Win7 or making sure that you have another PC with a legit, bought Windows license to install those versions of Windows on more than 1 PC? No wait, that second thing meant you paid for the OS.
If you put it like that, both being sarcastic and not being sarcastic can be true. Vista turned out bad, so people try alternative systems or stay with XP.
(c# is windows specific and c++ has some issues if you are not very careful).
Depends on if you're writing Mono-compatible code or not, right?
The big padding is considered good design, yes, but not giving the user the choice of having those big amounts of padding is a bad design choice on the other hand. The ultimate solution would be that Gnome auto-adjusts this depending on the found screen resolution. It's annoying to find hacks for this so everything is more visible on my 800x480 max resolution.
Gnome sucks.
So? This article is about not using Gnome.
You might want to talk about Obama at a more relevant place.
Or a wireless toaster.
True, but even if you piss that 1% off, there is still 99% of other potential customers. It's not like that 1% is going to change back to Windows anyway.
The "obsession" is the fact that Flash takes over all the codec issues by having a video play in it in a standard format, I guess. Which is good for people who are too lazy to actually convert their videos to standard formats by themselves.
For example, YouTube automates the process of re-encoding the video for anyone to see. No need for the video creator to change the format, most likely.
Actually, W3C is already getting off their asses with interactive SVG specifications. Or last time I looked, at least.
Anyone could do that. Plenty of ways to rip an flv from YouTube with Firefox...
But having to read MicroDollaroft every time is confusing!
No, you can definitely sharpen these enough to be lethal if you're a ninja.
"I don't know" belongs to the statement "I don't know WHAT solution there is". "I'm sure" belongs to the statement that "I'm sure there IS at least a solution". So, yeah.
A normal person? Wrong. This is the sort of thing that is going to happen when you give *nix to a person who is simply used to completely different tools and a different way of working.
Sorry, there is no way to mod him "insane".
A movie should be made out of it: someone encountering weird warning signs and them all happening in the most absurd ways possible. It'd be hilarious. Probably.