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Gnome 2 was SO configurable that I couldn't get on with Gnome 3 at all. I haven't tried it in well over a year at this point.. so I can't speak to recent change

Gnome 2 was SO configurable that I couldn't get on with Gnome 3 at all. I haven't tried it in well over a year at this point.. so I can't speak to recent changes. There was a lot I actually liked about it--but way too many features were either missing or narrowly restricted for me to build a fast and comfortable workflow on. I went to KDE for a while and then went all out, had a much better time.. then I questioned the need for a DE at all and have been using xmonad by itself for most of the past year. So.. thank you Gnome developers for making my question the need for having a DE! If I wanted a cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all, company-approved UX.. I'd buy one in a pretty silver box. This guy just comes across as incredibly smug. Does the ego-trip come free when you buy a ticket to chase the silver-box UX for your own product and its completely different userbase with entirely different needs and expectations?

sampo 13y ago
> Gnome 2 IMHO Xfce4 has reached the level that now it does the Gnome 2 thing better than Gnome 2 did. (Just needs some tweaking, if you don't like the default blue theme.)
greyfade 13y ago
Gnome 1 was so configurable, that I couldn't get on with Gnome 2 at all. I haven't tried it in over 10 years at this point... So I can't speak to recent changes. There was a lot I actually liked about it [Gnome 1] -- but way too many features were either missing or narrowly restricted for me to build a fast and comfortable workflow on. I went to KDE for a while and then went all out, switched to Xmonad, and had a much better time. Then I questioned the need for a DE at all. Unfortunately, with all the problems I run into in keeping my Haskell libraries up-to-date, that I decided to try Gnome 3, and I've been using it by itself for most of the past couple years. So... Thank you Gnome developers for reminding me that you have no clue what users need! ... No, seriously, I think Gnome 1 had a lot over Gnome 2, and it amuses me to no end that people prefer Gnome 2 over Gnome 3.

sampo 13y ago

> Gnome 2 IMHO Xfce4 has reached the level that now it does the Gnome 2 thing better than Gnome 2 did. (Just needs some tweaking, if you don't like the default blue theme.)

greyfade 13y ago

Gnome 1 was so configurable, that I couldn't get on with Gnome 2 at all. I haven't tried it in over 10 years at this point... So I can't speak to recent changes. There was a lot I actually liked about it [Gnome 1] -- but way too many features were either missing or narrowly restricted for me to build a fast and comfortable workflow on. I went to KDE for a while and then went all out, switched to Xmonad, and had a much better time. Then I questioned the need for a DE at all. Unfortunately, with all the problems I run into in keeping my Haskell libraries up-to-date, that I decided to try Gnome 3, and I've been using it by itself for most of the past couple years. So... Thank you Gnome developers for reminding me that you have no clue what users need! ... No, seriously, I think Gnome 1 had a lot over Gnome 2, and it amuses me to no end that people prefer Gnome 2 over Gnome 3.