Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 07, 2003 01:29 AM
First of all my opinion is that Linux is NO DESKTOP OS. Regardless of the fact that you can install either KDE or GNOME on it. There is a big illusion that a bunch of people always trap in because they expect that Linux behaves like Microsoft Windows and I fear the day that companies such as RedHat are trying to push linux to become something like Microsoft Windows.
So far my own opinion. Please reader know that RedHat mainly uses GNOME as their Desktop and also note that GNOME has a lot of flaws that won't get fixed anytime soon. To read more about current GNOME situation please read <A HREF="http://newsvac.newsforge.com/comments.pl?sid=28619&cid=38546">this link</a newsforge.com> and the replies to it. The replies explaining current flaws of GNOME which is used in RedHat are a mirror of the current GNOME version as in CVS. Please note that the CVS version are in UI and STRING deepfreeze so all named UI issues won't get fixed for this release anymore. Please also take your time and read <A HREF="http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1387">this link</a gnomesupport.org> and if you came from Windows and you dislike the Windows Registry then read this link because you meet the Windows Registry pukage again in GNOME. From my personal expirience and knowledge a couple of developers and contributors to the GNOME project resigned to continue working on and with GNOME. The whole development seemed to have slowed down like rats arse for the past months which is a good sign that developers are not happy with GNOME anymore it doesn't stimulate them to work on good usable applications for GNOME even a lot of so called standards which where called up on <A HREF="http://www.freedesktop.org/">Freedesktop</a freedesktop.org> are mainly decided by GNOME developers (usually the same 5-6 people that endless fill the GNOME mailinglist and doesn't reflect any norms or standard either by DIN or ANSI. But they implement these so called standards because there isn't anything else. At the end it results in breakage with applications that don't care or support GNOME at all e.g. people complain about Dialogs staying on top of other windows or Applications that annoyingly stay on top of other apps etc. Whenever you report these problems to the GNOME Bugtrackingbase or their Mailinglist you usually get told to report a bug to the mentioned application for not conforming to the freedesktop.org standards (which are NO standards). Anyways I think I should have you told this before you hype the situation to much. I do respect the hard work of the GNOME developers but they already lost focus of reality thats why I personally stopped activities on the GNOME section and switched over to KDE which IMO is far superior to anything else available on Linux today.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 07, 2003 01:29 AMSo far my own opinion. Please reader know that RedHat mainly uses GNOME as their Desktop and also note that GNOME has a lot of flaws that won't get fixed anytime soon. To read more about current GNOME situation please read <A HREF="http://newsvac.newsforge.com/comments.pl?sid=28619&cid=38546">this link</a newsforge.com> and the replies to it. The replies explaining current flaws of GNOME which is used in RedHat are a mirror of the current GNOME version as in CVS. Please note that the CVS version are in UI and STRING deepfreeze so all named UI issues won't get fixed for this release anymore. Please also take your time and read <A HREF="http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1387">this link</a gnomesupport.org> and if you came from Windows and you dislike the Windows Registry then read this link because you meet the Windows Registry pukage again in GNOME. From my personal expirience and knowledge a couple of developers and contributors to the GNOME project resigned to continue working on and with GNOME. The whole development seemed to have slowed down like rats arse for the past months which is a good sign that developers are not happy with GNOME anymore it doesn't stimulate them to work on good usable applications for GNOME even a lot of so called standards which where called up on <A HREF="http://www.freedesktop.org/">Freedesktop</a freedesktop.org> are mainly decided by GNOME developers (usually the same 5-6 people that endless fill the GNOME mailinglist and doesn't reflect any norms or standard either by DIN or ANSI. But they implement these so called standards because there isn't anything else. At the end it results in breakage with applications that don't care or support GNOME at all e.g. people complain about Dialogs staying on top of other windows or Applications that annoyingly stay on top of other apps etc. Whenever you report these problems to the GNOME Bugtrackingbase or their Mailinglist you usually get told to report a bug to the mentioned application for not conforming to the freedesktop.org standards (which are NO standards). Anyways I think I should have you told this before you hype the situation to much. I do respect the hard work of the GNOME developers but they already lost focus of reality thats why I personally stopped activities on the GNOME section and switched over to KDE which IMO is far superior to anything else available on Linux today.
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