QOTD

[unixronin]

"Gnome is an engineering teaser.  It looks fairly good and almost works, but is otherwise a continuous BETA project."

-- Charles Shannon Hendrix

Comments

[smandal.livejournal.com]

Oh, heh heh -- I'm a very basic GUI user. Just give me a space of panels and application windows; Mac screws it up with the modal task bar and no default virtual dekstop support.

A registry's not a bad idea; in my novice application development, I was happy there was a facility to manage the prefs I set but don't want to write dialogs for. It's just that Windows' implementation and policy are horribly broken.

[tww1fa]

Hehehehe - personally I think Gnome's implementation is just as broken. Give me plain text configuration files read by a library any day :) No need for daemons for something as simple as reading preferences.

Anyway, different strokes for different folks. If you're happy with Gnome, you're happy with Gnome. It's just not my cup of tea. I like my environment heavily customizable (perhaps not as much as unixronin does, however.) I just find it ironic that the desktop that started as a response to KDE's "corporate" image is now the more restrictive of the two :)

I do think that KDE should probably change their configuration dialogs to have "simple" and "advanced" settings, though. Apparently that's coming in KDE 4. I still don't think that configuration options for a GUI should ever need to be set at the command line though. If it's settable, add it to the GUI somewhere.