From: "Jeff Spaleta" <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx>
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To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases"
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Subject: Re: Why is xscreensaver removed in favor of gnome-screensaver
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:22:38 -0500
On 2/17/06, Miles Lane <miles.lane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Personally, I think the Gnome developers' know-it-all attitude is
> stupid and offensive. Dang it! They take their bloody "present no
> options to the users" too far! Idiots!
I would not label the Gnome developers as idiots as Linus Torvalds did over
the gnome print issue but I do find it frustrating at times that their "ease
of use" and it "just works" ideas to be in conflict with a lack of user
control.
For example I liked playing with the xmatrix controls just to see what they
did. Even if that was a bad idea because xmatrix seems to chew up a lot of
cpu and battery life and at one time did nasty things to memory.
I usually just leave a blank screen as a screensaver most of the time to
save battery but it is fun to play sometimes while you are waiting for a
download to finish. I guess thats why there will probally never be just one
desktop. Some like control, some like no controls. Luckily we have lots of
choices. Lets start a flame war over something more interesting. How about
we start one on ndiswrapper. Boy we should nuke those 8k stack options and
tell windows driver fanboys to go jump in a lake. 4k stacks are so much
better for performance.
There, I feel much better now !
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