Despite what seems to be a widespread misapprehension of conflict between the GNOME and KDE camps, KDE's adoption of ATK, originally developed for GNOME, is another great example of the cooperation that actually is more the norm.
I work my ass off on GNOME. I don't get paid for it. If you look at the core of people involved in the project, many get paid, many don't. What you and other critics call the "dumbing down" is not the result of some corporate cabal's conspiracy. It's the result of a long and thoughtful discussions about how to solve a very real problem. The problem is the relative lack of usability of a UI that becomes cluttered with too many preferences. You are welcome to disagree with our solution to that problem and use other software, or fork GNOME. It's all free. But to rack it up to a "corporate cabal" is just an ad hominem argument that ignores the reality of what actually happened in those lengthy discussions during which the hard decisions were made.
> Japanese Input is broken in gnome2 applications.
Have you filed a bug report on this? There was a mention of this on the GNOME lists recently, and others have had Japanese input working. The only way to track down an apparently isolated set of cases is to file a bug report and work with the developers.
It does no good to explain why people ought to have been able to maintain Sawfish. The fact is no one was doing it. The empirical data trumps any theoretical arguments about what should have happened, based on community needs and language preferences. If some of the people here who are arguing that it ought to be maintainable want to go ahead and do it, they're welcome to. In the meantime, a practical decision had to be made. End of story.
Have you filed bug reports? bugzilla.gnome.org is your friend. Jody and his cronies are terrific at fixing them. If you are not filing good bug reports every on the problems you find, then you are not taking full advantage of the benefits of free software, and you also are shirking your responsibilities to make an easy and important contribution to free software.
When you find a spreadsheet that won't import, try to narrow it down to the simplest possible test case that dupliates the problem and file a bug report.
Simply saying "it sucks big time" without offering any concrete details is not terribly useful.
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A helpful discussion of the X clipboard behavior on freedesktop:
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Despite what seems to be a widespread misapprehension of conflict between the GNOME and KDE camps, KDE's adoption of ATK, originally developed for GNOME, is another great example of the cooperation that actually is more the norm.
I work my ass off on GNOME. I don't get paid for it. If you look at the core of people involved in the project, many get paid, many don't. What you and other critics call the "dumbing down" is not the result of some corporate cabal's conspiracy. It's the result of a long and thoughtful discussions about how to solve a very real problem. The problem is the relative lack of usability of a UI that becomes cluttered with too many preferences. You are welcome to disagree with our solution to that problem and use other software, or fork GNOME. It's all free. But to rack it up to a "corporate cabal" is just an ad hominem argument that ignores the reality of what actually happened in those lengthy discussions during which the hard decisions were made.
> Japanese Input is broken in gnome2 applications.
Have you filed a bug report on this? There was a mention of this on the GNOME lists recently, and others have had Japanese input working. The only way to track down an apparently isolated set of cases is to file a bug report and work with the developers.
It does no good to explain why people ought to have been able to maintain Sawfish. The fact is no one was doing it. The empirical data trumps any theoretical arguments about what should have happened, based on community needs and language preferences. If some of the people here who are arguing that it ought to be maintainable want to go ahead and do it, they're welcome to. In the meantime, a practical decision had to be made. End of story.
Have you filed bug reports? bugzilla.gnome.org is your friend. Jody and his cronies are terrific at fixing them. If you are not filing good bug reports every on the problems you find, then you are not taking full advantage of the benefits of free software, and you also are shirking your responsibilities to make an easy and important contribution to free software.
When you find a spreadsheet that won't import, try to narrow it down to the simplest possible test case that dupliates the problem and file a bug report.
Simply saying "it sucks big time" without offering any concrete details is not terribly useful.