Re: difficulties



These are legitimate bugs, but if you don't file them no one will act on
them. 

dave


On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 12:36, Sam Halliday wrote:
> i dont care whether it makes it into gnome 2 or not... i probably wont
> upgrade for a year or so anyway, most of my other apps are still using
> gtk+1, so i see no need to upgrade to gtk+2 until they require it. My
> annoyance, is that these amazing programmers are spending all their
> energies on things that never really effect the end user in as big a way
> as extra features do.
> 
> im thinking from the perspective of a new gnome user here... coming from
> a kde background or windows, there is a lot to expect that just isnt
> there, and an absolute overkill in config options for stuff that nobody
> would ever touch. kde has a completely integrated setup envirnoment that
> can set up anything from your cups server and user administration to
> your X resolution, gnome just doesnt have that user friendliness about
> it... even with ximian setup tools added. small stuff, like there is an
> overkill in the sizes of desktop panel you can have, but thats pointless
> because you cant resize the clock applet anyway, so it never goes
> smaller than that, or that you can make the panel translucent, but that
> doesnt matter becuase you cant do that to any of the applets... small
> stuff like this is what annoys me about gnome.... but saying that, i use
> it every, however there is room for improvement and to be fair, a lot of
> catching up to do behind kde, which even by looking at daily releases of
> new apps for each desktop shows that kde is flying ahead
> 
> cheers,
> Sam
> -- 
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> do.
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