![]() – Someone put something in their Fitt’s area ![]() ![]() – Their power supply makes too much noise – Their fonts aren’t antialiased quite right – There are too many selections in the menus – There aren’t enough selections in the menus – Compiz doesn’t work with their video chipset – Desktop Q isn’t configurable enough and they can’t use the keystrokes they learned in Word Star. – GTK+ redraws are allegedly sometimes perceptible Meanwhile, on OSNews, supposedly tech-savvy people complain that their work flow and creativity are impeded because: They call me when they run into an actual problem that impedes their work flow, like a site’s javascript not working with Firefox. And none of my users have, at any time, said anything about screen updates being slow or that they don’t like the file manager. We run Gnome on X terminals over 100 mbit lans. I’m thankful for the splash of cold water that I get each day from administering my XDMCP servers and supporting real business desktop users. Surrounded by others holding the same strong opinions on the same niche topics, in a community mostly disconnected from mainstream concerns, we can actually start seriously believing stuff like that. Such are the pitfalls of hanging out in nooks like ours here at OSNews. Until there, I find difficult to adopt even more alternatives to the desktop. (Yep, I know there is a workaround and it has been filed as a bug, but is it in latest Ubuntu? No…) You see, this is what I am talking about. ![]() Can you do a “lasso” over your files in list view (detailed)? I bet you can’t. GNOME is ahead KDE in that sense, but it seems like another extreme-right politics group, embracing no new ideas on how to get rid of Nautilus. I believe KDE signed a consentiment to its obituary, because they have increased the complexity and there are people who are right when they say that they couldn’t “do a thing” inside KDE4.x. It’s kind of humiliating for DE developers to try to imitate everything that Windows Vista does or what Microsoft is going to implement, instead of trying to diminish the learning curve between Windows & Linux desktops. You see the contrary, developers will try to emulate the strangest things around, but not what 99% of the users are used to on a daily basis (read Windows). I think if XFCE shifted to a Windows XP-like interface, emulating the look and feel (not necessarely all that blue) would get this desktop really far ahead GNOME and KDE. There is space in the bottom being wasted. The panels are not very optimal just like GNOME default. XF what? Too much acronyms! Why can’t something be properly named, like Orion or Andromeda, for example. On the other hand we have these lightweight desktops but they also have ridiculous flaws. Take that away and Ubuntu will be a real alternative to Windows. This redraw glitch and Nautilus are one of the greatest GNOME shortcommings. I have a good 3D card, my video is working wonderfully well and still, GTK+ is slow to redraw. Tom already wrote in the series “Why DE sucks” how GNOME redraws are slow. I mean, this really sucks man! Further more, it’s Nautilus that is “decently” integrated to the system, and not others which I later installed to fiddle with (Pcfman, Thunar). You will tell me of other alternatives that certainly don’t use GTK+ and are quite ugly, not to mention the inconsistent system behaviours such as the mouse pointer to left, outside at the desktop area, and then to the right, inside the application. (I said “Classic Mode, with panel and detailed view”, not default) Today I realized that one of the biggest problem for me, in Linux, is the file manager: Windows Explorer /XP may suck for some people, but I didn’t see any competitor at its level. I mean… these two desktops really must not even LIKE BEING TOGETHER on! (LOL) My Main menus in both KDE and GNOME got “cluttered” of one’s another application, everything out of the right places. I am sure one out there managed to do this, but not me, not with konqueror in KDE4, not with Dolphin and to with Nautilus. With Nautilus or Konqueror, I couldn’t even change a mimetype icon for a specific kind of file (FLAC). Then I installed Konqueror, but I needed to download something like 300MB to also get (the unwanted) Dolphin and a vast amount of KDE libraries. This time I really felt like if GNOME was almost popping up a banner “Don’t do this, you’re too stupid…”. Nautilus got so much in the way that it became obvious that the application did not want to do what I needed to do. My motives were the hassle that is to replace Windows Explorer “Classic Mode with Sidepanel & detailed view”. I uninstalled today my copy of Ubuntu 8.10.
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