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On 23 Apr 2005, Luke Kanies wrote:
> 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.
The ***** Metacity author was one of the leaders of the GNOME project
who decided that 1.4 had failed in the marketplace because it was too
complex.
The set of project leads as a whole made this call. Then they pissed
off anyone who thought different, drove them away to other places, and
proceeded to strip every useful application to the point that it sucked,
because it had bad defaults, and no sane way to change them.
Part of their reasoning was tolerable - a bunch of their core software
was bloated, slow, impossible to understand, and barely useful to
anyone.
This wasn't caused by an excess of options, though. It was caused by
stupid software written by stupid people that used twenty damn CPU
seconds on a P4-1700 to display a directory containing 50 files.
It didn't help that they felt the Microsoft thread-based love, and stuck
threads into everything they could. Mmmm, threads, full of complexity,
slower than non-threaded applications, and the best source of bugs this
side of PHP.
[...]
> Same here. I keep trying different window managers (Ion, for instance),
> but... Pick your hate, I guess.
*nod* All fscking UI sucks.
Daniel
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