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All I can say is that GNOME 3 seems to take Havoc Pennington's famous essay about as far as it can go, considering configurability a bug. I don't know exactly w
by jejones3141 5y ago
All I can say is that GNOME 3 seems to take Havoc Pennington's famous essay about as far as it can go, considering configurability a bug. I don't know exactly when it started, but it definitely came to my attention bigtime with the infamous gnome-screensaver.
Useful links:
1. https://ometer.com/preferences.html https://ometer.com/preferences.html, the subset of Mr. P's original essay that the original contains a link to.
2. https://www.derstandard.at/story/1313024283546/gnome-designer-jon-mccann-about-the-future-of-gnome3 https://www.derstandard.at/story/1313024283546/gnome-designe..., an interview with Jon McCann.
- zxzax 5y agoYes, I would agree that a lot of GNOME developers still view that as a design goal. But not all do, and even so, having less configurability doesn't mean less features. If you ask me, practically speaking, what it has meant is that there is a larger collection of smaller apps to choose from. So if the app you want lacks a configuration option, you might be better served by trying to find a different app that just works the way you want the first time.