"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."
