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On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 10:01 +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Oh, but that is a *feature*, dontcha know? Users could be terribly > confused if you exposed complex ideas like configuration options to > them. Yeah, that just astounds me; I don't care that the asanine Metacity author thinks features are evil(tm), but Gnome is stupid for using it as their main window manager. > They will clearly be much less confused by using the Linux registry > editor to edit the Linux registry ... ahem. I mean the gconf editor to > edit the gconf registry ^W data store ... > > Sorry. Hate. Obviously, it is much better to prevent people having all > these complex choices about how their software operates. Then they can > use it the way ghod, and you, intended. They have no choice. > > Except that the developers still want the choice, so they hide it away > in undocumented features and commands. More code complexity for less > effect. And yet again the OSS crowd fails to deliver a good workaround to someone else's stupidity. I still think the shareware model of software development works best for anything other than nasty-large apps. If this were a Mac (i.e., where there's a strong shareware community), that problem would already be solved. Hell, there are 20 hotkey solutions on Mac.s > In my limited[1] experience, KDE sucks a lot less. I basically agree, but stupid KDE thinks that two rows of workspaces is enough for anyone, and unless I have a 3x3 grid, I get hives and begin shaking uncontrollably. Such a small thing, but that's the reason I can't use KDE. Of course, there are some other insanities -- I've used some of the KApps, and while they do a good job of centralizing configuration info and such, and there's a lot of consistency (which is pretty damn rare on Linux), there was lots of pain, too. > > Linux, for not having an even lower-level good mechanism for > > integrating mp3 players, or any other apps? All OSes, because they > > basically all lack this feature? > > That sounds like a good target to me. "Don't worry, we'll hate the software you like, too." > Footnotes: > [1] The hate builds up no matter what "desktop environment" I try to use. Same here. I keep trying different window managers (Ion, for instance), but... Pick your hate, I guess. -- Like frozen sentries of the serengeti, the century-old termite mounds had withstood all tests of time and foe - all tests, that is, except the one involving drunken aardvarks and a stolen wrecking ball." -- Gary Larson --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://config.sage.orgThere's stuff above here
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