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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I made the switch from being a big KDE fan to being a bigger Gnome fan with Slackware 9.0. It was there, I tried it out, and I feel like Gnome is much more slick and professional. (to give an idea of where I'm coming from, I'm a huge OSX fan) The problem is that KDE is in a lot of ways more mature. There are lots more default apps, and many more tools. Gnome is picking these parts up at a fairly rapid pace, and one reason I prefer Gnome is I feel like these apps are of better quality.
At any rate, one of the biggest problems I have with Gnome is the menu. Editing it can be very cumbersome.
I'm also really interested in seeing Totem and Rhythmbox integrated into Gnome. KDE does a much better job of out of the box click on the app and it runs.
And as mentioned in the article, Samba browsing is just broken. Badly. Sometimes I can put in a user and pass on a freely shared directory, and it might let me in. Sometimes it just says it can't find it. And if I click on an mp3 on a remote drive to play it, that never will happen. These issues really need to get fixed. People are relying on these network transparency features more and more, and they are non-existant in Gnome.
In terms of the included apps comparision with KDE, the biggest hole is in the control panel. I really like the mentioned idea of making it similar to OSX's control panel, and it needs to control more. Sometimes when X won't behave I just hop into KDE and use the cumbersome control center to fix it.
Great artilce Eugenia, and I hope they pick up some of your ideas!