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Grumpy Gnome-Hater Almost Changes Mind
Sep 10, 2008, 23 :01 UTC (7 Talkback[s]) (5960 reads)

(Other stories by Carla Schroder)

"Then came Gnome 2.0, and suddenly the world turned black. It was inflexible and simple-minded, with all the cool hackability gone. There was no middle ground- it was either too brain-dead simple, or too difficult. The choices were either graphical apps with two config options, or gconf, or editing XML files. Yeah, we loves that XML, and gconf is darn near as intuitive as the Windows Registry."

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Some of us grumpy KDE users almost want  ...   And then...   
Scott
Sep 10, 2008, 23:59:52
 
While I have always been a KDE fan since ...   Well said...   
GreyGeek
Sep 11, 2008, 00:55:47
 
> I believe, however, that sometime in t ...   Re: Well said...   
DannyB
Sep 11, 2008, 12:52:47
 
I used to think that Gnome 1.4 was the L ...   Gnome 1.x   
blackhole
Sep 11, 2008, 13:46:06
 
when they started the bonobo and monkey  ...   They lost me   
Nate Bargmann
Sep 12, 2008, 03:04:51
 
> I believe, however, that sometime in t ...   Re: Well said...   
Nate Bargmann
Sep 12, 2008, 03:10:04
 
> A quote (pharphrased) that I saw on Sl ...   Re: Re: Well said...   
blackhole
Sep 12, 2008, 12:37:36
 
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