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On 22 Apr 2005, Luke Kanies wrote:
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> This just seems bloody stupid, but I'm not sure who's to blame. Me, for
> demanding too much? (Nope.) The mp3 players for sucking so much?
Why not? They all do.
> Metacity, for having such absolutely retarded mechanisms for setting
> hotkeys (2 years and it _still_ requires me to set the key and command
> separately, within GConf)?
Oh, but that is a *feature*, dontcha know? Users could be terribly
confused if you exposed complex ideas like configuration options to
them.
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.
> Gnome, for not having a good, integrated mp3 player, or even better, a
> good mechanism for integrating any mp3 player, or any app?
In my limited[1] experience, KDE sucks a lot less.
KDE: we bring bloat a new name. we expose the hate of C++ under GCC.
we whack crippled QT interfaces over anything that comes near us. we do
stupid stuff by default. we reinvent the wheel, every day in every way.
To balance all that hate up, though, they fail to suck in fundamental
ways, just like GNOME doesn't any more. Nice idea, but it sucks more
and more as they try to make it "better".
> 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.
Daniel
Footnotes:
[1] The hate builds up no matter what "desktop environment" I try to use.
--
Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient.
It's called 'rain'.
-- Michael McClary, (alt.fusion)
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