I both agree and disagree with you. Gnome as a functional entity has certain major advantages over Litestep, running on an X server in a POSIX enabled environment, be it through a.dll or otherwise, that are mostly centered in its unity and thoroughness, coming from an environment where it has to be fully capable of all of the GUI and environment functions, and where such functions are easy for it to fill by design.
However, you give Litestep far less credit than it is due. Litestep is not in the category that Gnome is, owing to the compromises forced upon it by its operating environment. It runs in Windows, on its own set of.dll's using Windows' framework and API base. It is not designed to be a fully independantly functional GUI and environment, it is simply designed to implement, as a shell, a far more functional and far more user-customizeable interface over the existing structure. Of COURSE functions like printing and file managing are still tied to the Explorer system; Litestep isn't designed to take over any of that because it works just fine natively through Windows. It's neither a part of Litestep's design and intended functionality nor a necessity for its environment.
Your complaint is rather like complaining that the roof over your head is insufficient because it doesn't have a kitchen sink or toilet installed, so "the whole idea is somewhat flawed" since you can't use it to go to the bathroom and wash your hands. If Litestep doesn't do what you want, you have the same options as everyone else. Write code to make it do what you want, or find another program that does what you want, or code something else to take up that functionality. It's the way a hacker does things.
Lawsuits against Napster are directed at another issue entirely, that being the real occurrence of music piracy that Napster's main purpose encourages. If you happen to be pissed at Napster, mister 'aesthete', you can haul your pansy litigating ass over to *them* and have a go. Writable or rewritable CD media have, as their primary purpose, the storage of relatively large amounts of data on easily portable media for which there is a widespread and popular read-device. They are used for all sorts of data, and your "artiste" ego assumes far too much importance for your own specific data-type. Besides, I very much doubt anyone is pirating anything belonging to someone with so little taste and sense as you seem to have, mister "Kiss the Blade", so quit whining!
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I both agree and disagree with you. Gnome as a functional entity has certain major advantages over Litestep, running on an X server in a POSIX enabled environment, be it through a .dll or otherwise, that are mostly centered in its unity and thoroughness, coming from an environment where it has to be fully capable of all of the GUI and environment functions, and where such functions are easy for it to fill by design.
.dll's using Windows' framework and API base. It is not designed to be a fully independantly functional GUI and environment, it is simply designed to implement, as a shell, a far more functional and far more user-customizeable interface over the existing structure. Of COURSE functions like printing and file managing are still tied to the Explorer system; Litestep isn't designed to take over any of that because it works just fine natively through Windows. It's neither a part of Litestep's design and intended functionality nor a necessity for its environment.
However, you give Litestep far less credit than it is due. Litestep is not in the category that Gnome is, owing to the compromises forced upon it by its operating environment. It runs in Windows, on its own set of
Your complaint is rather like complaining that the roof over your head is insufficient because it doesn't have a kitchen sink or toilet installed, so "the whole idea is somewhat flawed" since you can't use it to go to the bathroom and wash your hands. If Litestep doesn't do what you want, you have the same options as everyone else. Write code to make it do what you want, or find another program that does what you want, or code something else to take up that functionality. It's the way a hacker does things.
Lawsuits against Napster are directed at another issue entirely, that being the real occurrence of music piracy that Napster's main purpose encourages. If you happen to be pissed at Napster, mister 'aesthete', you can haul your pansy litigating ass over to *them* and have a go. Writable or rewritable CD media have, as their primary purpose, the storage of relatively large amounts of data on easily portable media for which there is a widespread and popular read-device. They are used for all sorts of data, and your "artiste" ego assumes far too much importance for your own specific data-type. Besides, I very much doubt anyone is pirating anything belonging to someone with so little taste and sense as you seem to have, mister "Kiss the Blade", so quit whining!