On 30 October 2015 at 13:40, Mark Haney <mark.haney(a)vifprogram.com> wrote:
I think we're all in agreement that Fedora (and other distros)
should treat
Gnome and KDE the same and let the users decide. I don't completely agree
that KDE is over-complicated due to dogma. I, like a lot of people I know,
don't want to install a crap-ton of GTK+ packages to run Gnome Apps anymore
than Gnome users don't want to install a ton of KDE libraries to run KDE
apps. Personally, I've found the KDE apps to be more stable and more
user-friendly. Gnome does nothing but change for the sake of change, not
for any sort of 'evolutionary' reason. That's a dogma I can't stand.
Gnome
is not friendly enough for new linux users, nor for those who come from the
Windows world (like my parents). Not to mention, several of the Gnome
maintainers are rude, patronising gits who think they know what's best for
us. If I wanted that attitude, I'd have stuck with Apple or Microsoft.
No no no, you've just failed to understand the genius of their design,
which is proof itself that you don't know what you're talking about.
;) just in case it's needed...
(Though FWIW I don't have much problem with mixing best of breed apps
if it means picking up a few dependencies, software is only a small
fraction of the total data I keep. This thing desktops environments
develop where they want to proliferate into an exclusive 'ecosystem'
isn't much in the interests of users. I happily used K3B for years
under Gnome before I switched to KDE.)
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imalone
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