[conspire] Fwd: Re: Future of GNOME [ruben at mrbrklyn.com]

[Ruben Safir]

On 12/06/2012 08:58:02 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
On 12/06/2012 08:51:03 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben at mrbrklyn.com):
> 
> > It's just aweful. It starts with an all intiutive blank screen with  
> a
> > little useless node on the extreme right, and two words, application
> > and places on the etreme left.
> 
> Strictly speaking, GNOME has never dictated a specific appearance and
> desktop metaphor, because in _theory_ you are not obliged to be
> stuck with someone else's choice of GNOME-su

I was never happy with the gnome/wmaker integration.  It kills the  
right click.
> Plenty of other window managers have _also_ supported GNOME  
> hinting.[1]
> One of many is Window Maker, the WM I use most often.  Another is
> 'Awesome' (http://awesome.naquadah.org/).
> 
> Anyhow, Ruben?  Didn't you know this already?  Saying as an expert  
> Linux
> user that you dislike the way GNOME3 looks seems to miss a really huge
> and basic point -- that GNOME3 doesn't dictate that.
> 

eh - I'm getting lazier and lazier about these things in my old age.   
There is no
money in it..