Re: MP3 players? Linux? I'm not sure, but I know there's hate

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From: Luke Kanies
Subject: Re: MP3 players? Linux? I'm not sure, but I know there's hate
Date: 16:16 on 22 Apr 2005
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
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