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People often complain about design decisions of the GNOME team: removing desktop icons, status bar, ...
by RMPR 6y ago
People often complain about design decisions of the GNOME team: removing desktop icons, status bar, ...
- petepete 6y agoThose people can choose another DE with legacy features like desktop icons. Tradition isn't a reason to keep up bad habits and I'm thankful to Gnome for daring to take tough decisions for the greater good. I wouldn't use any other DE, at this point.KDE has always been cluttered and XFCE is buggy and not particularly intuitive.
- RMPR 6y agoThis is debatable because it's a matter of taste (or habit), but one thing they got right is optimizing the interface for Touchscreens.
- jason0597 6y agoThere was a very good post here in Hacker News explaining why the decisions that GNOME (and others as well) have taken are bad: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22901541 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22901541
- petepete 6y agoYes I saw this the other day. The post is incorrect in several ways but there are some valid opinions in there that I agree with too. Nothing as big as a DE is perfect, thankfully it's broadly moving in the right direction.
- stonogo 6y agoThey're not "legacy features" merely because your tastes have changed. They're still just "features." Calling them mean names doesn't change that, it just makes it harder to take your argument in good faith -- same as calling desktop icons "bad habits." I'm a happy GNOME user but ascribing moral judgements to common computer functionality is kind of weird.
- samsquire 6y agoHow is removing features "for the greater good"?