I'm about to leave all the Gnome mailing lists, but I thought I'd leave a short thank-you note first in an attempt to explain why I, who has used Gnome for the last 5+ years, have decided to jump ship. I started using Gnome because it simply looked better than anything out there. The GTK+ toolkit has always had a nice look, and the themes available allowed me to make things look interesting and fun. I used Metacity for a while, and but then I discovered Xmonad and felt it was a perfect match, especially when run with a full Gnome session behind it. I had the best of all worlds, a WM that was quick, responsive and minimal, and it was backed up by a user friendly environment that offered a great file manager, file associations that worked and configurability that suited me. Then some of the configurability was hidden away. Thankfully there are still hackers out there who dig out how to configure things in gconf and dconf, that combined with a good search engine was enough to let me accept the situation. Then Gnome3 arrived. Arguably the slickest and best-looking DE available. Visually stunning, and innovative in how you interact with it. However, it did have one huge drawback, it removed the ability to replace the WM. That turned out to be the straw that broke the camel's back. I've now tried to live with gnome3 basically since it came out, but now I'm done. I've installed awesome and am in the process of putting in place the bits and pieces that I need. Will I miss Gnome? Oh sure, some things I will miss that's for sure. Thank you, it's been great, but for now I've had it. I'll be back if I ever read that the Gnome developers decide to again power users in the target audience. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
