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On 12/17/2012 05:03 AM, Rejy M Cyriac
wrote:
On
12/17/2012 01:47 PM, Tim wrote:
Tim:
Mine actually gets used as a tool,
fiddling around with it is the
last thing I want to do. It wastes my time having to tweak
things to
get them to do what I want them to.
Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent:
I on the other hand am curious to see
the inner-workings of some of
the apps on my Fedora 17 laptop. ...but I also don't want to
have to
change or edit something every time I need to get something
done....si
I guess there's a sweet spot / middle ground that some folks
can fit
into. I'm past the "point-and-click" phase of computing, and
am going
to want to constantly learn how to do things, but I'm also no
programmer-level, super-computing, genius who can do all
things with a
few lines of code.....
Oh, I'll try out new and interesting sounding software, learn
how to set
up a new service, et cetera. But what I don't want to do is
continually
fiddle with the desktop, itself, nor have to learn new ways to
do the
same thing, over and over again (whether that be NFS requiring a
new
configuration methodology to do exactly what it was doing in the
prior
release, or what new hoops have to be jumped through to get the
damn
nvidia card to work on the same hardware).
I see people who seem to do nothing other than continually
change the
background and menus of their desktop in new and useless ways.
Yes,
that is a dig at the Gnome developers, as well as
fiddle-finger-users.
Everyone has their own area of interest, and I believe that all
'fiddling', big or small, contributes to improving Open Source
Software.
I agree that there are some contributions to O.S.S. that have been
beneficial.....but when a developer or group decides FOR me what
THEY think I WANT or NEED in my OS.....well that' seems to be going
down the "Red/Green/Blue/Yellow-Brick-Road"....a lot of people
complained like crazy when Gnome changed.....others...(myself
included!) actually liked the newer look and feel....eventually
because of the firmness of the Gnome developers (who only recently
relented and decided to include some form of "throwback to an
earlier time" with the current release) a lot of people dumped it
altogether......well now..BOTH camps can be satisfied....others who
liked neither version went the way of MATE....Cinnamon....or
KDE....XFCE....etc. As long as there's "Choice" then fiddling
shouldn't be a big problem.....not in a community of people who
adhere to the power of choice as a major principle...its when you
lock people into a format....file-type....style....version....etc.
that's when fiddling can become hazardous...
EGO II
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