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> On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 02:39:05PM -0500, Beartooth wrote:
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>> 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.
Wouldn't it be simplier if RH came out w/ multiple distros for
different types of users?
Eithier that or just a install option.
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