Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 16, 2003 10:57 PM
I see your noble ambitions. However, all kde people seem to assume nobody will ever listen to reasonable arguments. So it's better just to say "X sucks" than tell why. Every time I engage a debate like this, I have tried to ask, or provocate people to tell what is good in kde. Usually I get "it looks good","it's easy to use" -answers, which are both subjective matters, no-one bothers to go into details. I already told what makes kde repulsive to me and I would like to know if there is something stellar I'm missing.
If "it looks ugly" is the biggest complaint about gnome, I think it's excellent then. It's pretty easy to make something look good, the functionality is what I'm more concerned about. Why I wrote the last comment? Because there's nothing wrong in making something better, but who says what *is* better, there's flip side in this coin too. If in the process of making gnome more attractive to that bunch of would-be-users they trash the qualities the current users value, nothing is won. People are different, they value different things, it's better to have different programs for them than try to make all the same.
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Re:I use KDE, but I try every new Gnome.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 16, 2003 10:57 PMIf "it looks ugly" is the biggest complaint about gnome, I think it's excellent then. It's pretty easy to make something look good, the functionality is what I'm more concerned about. Why I wrote the last comment? Because there's nothing wrong in making something better, but who
says what *is* better, there's flip side in this coin too. If in the process of making gnome more attractive to that bunch of would-be-users they trash the qualities the current users value, nothing is won. People are different, they value different things, it's better to have different
programs for them than try to make all the same.
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