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On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 02:39:05PM -0500, Beartooth wrote:
>
> It used to be -- in RH 7.2, anyway -- when something got
> hung up, that you could right-click on its little spot on the
> panel, whatever that's called, and along with choices like
> Maximize, Minimize, etc., you got one for Kill App. Very useful for
> us subtechnoids, who don't have command line kills at our finger
> tips. I hope very much that this is some kind of oversight, or
> well-meaning paternalistic wrongness ("protect the poor little user
> from herself"),
I think the latter is the problem here. The design philosophy of
GNOME 2 seems to be that users are incapable of thinking for
themselves, or said another way, simplicity at the cost of
flexibility. With Metacity, Red Hat is taking this a step beyond even
what the GNOME project itself has done.
I sincerely hope Red Hat is getting the message: One size DOES NOT fit
all, and people don't like GNOME2/Metacity. It's too inflexible, too
dumbed-down. And not just for experienced users... Even newbies
complain about not being able to do things that make sense, or do them
in a similar manner to how other Unix systems behave (whether or not they
realize that other systems can behave the way in which they are asking)...
Sure, some people will like it just fine, and don't care that a wide
variety of functionality which is available elsewhere is missing. But
many of us DO care. And there is no obvious/easy way provided to
continue to use GNOME without using Metacity. This is unfortunate.
Bad Robot.
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Derek D. Martin
http://www.pizzashack.org/
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