Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 17th Feb 2007 18:59 UTC, submitted by elsewhere
"Some bad blood between Linus Torvalds and GNOME developers is flaring up again. Previously, Torvalds has said that Linux users should switch to KDE instead of GNOME because of the GNOME team's 'users are idiots' mentality. Now he has 'put his money where his mouth is' by submitting patches to GNOME in order to have it behave as he likes. This week, on the Linux Foundation's (formerly OSDL) Desktop Architects mailing list, the two sides are going mano a mano." Can I interest you in a pair of these and these?
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2005-07-06
I don't want to configure much and I'd prefer it just worked without changing any settings
I'm saying this with no offensive intent, please try to take it as being so. What I feel fairly frequently, when people start to talk about configurability and customisability differences between Gnome and KDE, that the people who say I-don't-want-to-spend- my-life-configuring-things have to come from some other planet, or maybe from another galaxy.
What I mean by this is that why on earth should anyone spend any amount of time configuring his x desktop, apart from an initial setup and maybe once or twice a year when personal preferences might change considerably for a reason. Do these people install linuxes so often that this becomes an issue ? Then, if they install so much, why do they say they don't have time to spend on configuring the desktop ? Or they don't know how to save their settings ?
All in all, my opinion is, that after some time spent for customizing one's desktop (Gnome or KDE or whatever else), the later relatively minor configuration changes should be easy to do and giving as much free hand in doing so as humanly possible. Considering this, I always found KDE more easy to manage and always becoming easier, while when doing similar minor changes in Gnome often resulted in hairs being pulled out, faces getting deep scratches and mothers' being mentioned in not so polite contexts.
What I've always wanted to have in Gnome is a master switch to change into some uber user mode where I'd have the flexibility and modularity of kde behaving like gnome. Yeah, tell me about bad dreams