Hello,
I am sorry to make my first post in this way because I didn't want to
make it sound like a "whiner".
Although I regret it, I am making an opinion.
I agree that reducing the amounts of configurations displayed to a
novice user is good, because it confuses him.
That way, I really enjoyed nautilus and sawfish in that they provided
3 different user levels, each displaying more preference options as you
chose a higher level of experience.
However, simply removing features without carefull thought is
definitely not the way to do it.
I'm talking of sawfish, right now.
I was running it as installed from
sawfish2-2.0.pre1.0.200204212122-0.snap.ximian.1.i386.rpm
and today I updated to
sawfish2-2.0.pre1.0.200204230349-0.snap.ximian.1.i386.rpm
only to findout that sawfish had been so terribly crippled.
No more different levels... and worse... configurations that go to the
level of metacity.
Now, first of all, I agree that we can have a simpler window manager for
less experienced users (I think that sawfish in novice mode is quite
enough, but I don't have anything against having two choices) and
metacity does that job well. However, there's no need to cripple
sawfish.
Where gnome2 not in beta stage, I'd bet it was some random change on the
development that caused that problem, but in beta time? Not very likely.
Two things I consider very bad decisions:
- removal of different levels of configuration
- removal of viewports.
viewports have a much more sane behaviour than workspaces (in
sawfish at least), which is not to say that workspaces do not have their
uses... I, for myself, use a 2ws*6cols viewports. A WS for work related
stuff, and another one for personal stuff.
The first thing I did was change back sawfish to the build from the 21st
of april.
Please, consider this plea of mine... let's make things easy for novice
users, but do not ruin the usage experience of more experienced users.
Hugs, rms
--
+ No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
+ Whatever you do will be insignificant,
| but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi
+ So let's do it...?
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