Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 9th Dec 2003 22:48 UTC
A few weeks ago we published an article titled "The Great Mac OS X 10.4 Wish List", detailing a few personal wishes for the next version of OSX. Later I learned that quite a few Apple engineers read the article and so it felt good that the time spent writing the article was not just a voice in the void. A reader emailed me a few days ago asking me to do the same for other OSes and DEs. So here is my personal wish-list for a future version of Gnome. Please tell us about your own Gnome wish list in the comment section provided.
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Excellent article, you raise many agreeable points.
Aside from a couple things that both kde _and_ gnome could use improvements on, and aside from a couple specific apps you mentioned - it sounds like you want gnome to be more like kde.
I'm guessing that if kde finally got around to creating a theme or two and an icon-set or two that looked a little more "gnomeish", a _lot_ of people would become happy converts. One other thing that I'm pretty certain of, is that much of the gnome-ism comes simply from the fact that it appears to have stronger backing from large companies - so people think it's going to some how be/become more "legit".
I'm using KDE 3.2(beta2/cvs) and it honestly rocks. I was using gnome quite extensively since 2.4 was released, but it just never satisfied, for alot reasons. KDE merely fails to satisfy on a few reasons.
There certainly is more than a couple things that kde definitely can improve on (and it is), but with the release of 3.2, I really think that it just leaped miles ahead gnome, gnome 2.6 will still be behind. And just wait in a couple months when all the kde PIM features that couldn't get released on time w/ the official 3.2 dist are delivered.
One thing KDE could use is a distro that concentrates entirely on pure KDE, one that provides an out-of-the-box default kde experience which attends to some of the vanilla kde issues.
Hopefully you will do another article for a KDE Wish List, if so, please be sure to use the latest 3.2 available to base your wishes.
Cheers! And I hope all your gnome wishes come true!