From kde-devel  Thu Jan 06 02:48:57 2005
From: "Emmanuel Julien" <xbarr () ninomojo ! com>
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 02:48:57 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Superlous configuration?
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I think even mentioning GNOME is doomed to be taken as a personal attack
on this mailing list and I can understand that.

*** I NEVER SPOKE ABOUT REMOVING THAT OPTION! I NEVER SAYED GNOME>KDE ***
In fact both sucks when compared to the evil ones, but alternative desktop
is not (yet) about having a computer that just works.

I'm merely expressing concerns with KDE where while everything can be
configured is a good thing, it seems that in KDE everything should be right
under your hand waiting to be configured.

I'm totally against removing features from KDE and I'm using GNOME as a  
last
resort (eg: I like to keep my window on top without going through 3 pages  
full of
check and combo boxes).

KDE has become very difficult to grasp and I'm *really* not a newbie.
There's just too many options sitting in very exposed interfaces staying  
mostly
unused. This thread is about one.

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:37:33 +0000, Esben Mose Hansen <kde@mosehansen.dk>  
wrote:

> On Wednesday 05 January 2005 18:43, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
>> On Thursday, 6. January 2005 00:29, Emmanuel Julien wrote:
>
>> > I used to use KDE but I switched to GNOME for this exact kind of  
>> reasons.
>>
>> You did the right thing. And that's actually what everybody should do  
>> who
>> feels uncomfortable in a flexible and easily customizable desktop
>> environment like KDE - move to GNOME. Have fun in your nice clean padded
>> cell. And keep the reductionist bullshit (and bloody kconf-editor) out  
>> of
>> KDE.
>
> Amen.
>
> Please, please keep KDE the featureful everything-but-the-kitchen-sink  
> desktop
> environment that it is, and suggest Gnome as an alternative for the
> reductionists.
>
> Consider emacs and vim: Both have become great editors, but not by  
> following
> the same philosophy.
>
> The only configuration items that should be (re)moved are the dangerous  
> ones
> (move to advanced) and the truly useless ones.
>


 
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