"Despite the head start that KDE enjoyed, the large number of KDE users and developers, and Linus Torvalds personally endorsing KDE, GNOME has won the desktop environment battle. The final victory came with the third piece of a corporate trifecta, giving GNOME the official nod from Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, and finally Novell. The question is, will the triumph of GNOME lead to the rise or downfall of the Linux desktop?" Run Forrest! Run!
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Member since:2006-04-27
The gnome-screensaver dialog most definitely did cut an important feature (configuring an individual screensaver).
However, the file dialog and not being able to unmount drive from the place sidebar in nautilus are not "cutting features." The GTKFileChooser API included in GTK2.4 (or was it 2.6?) allows people to develop any number of different file choosers that suit different needs. The fact that no one is really doing that is a little odd, but nonetheless the ability is there.
Also, the nautilus places sidebar is most definitely not that way to follow any "just works" ideology. It just hasn't been done. I haven't hear anybody turning down such a patch, and in fact a patch was _accepted_ to 2.14 to allow editing of the bookmarks in the places sidebar.
There is a big difference between "haven't had time/resources/thought to implement it" and "we cut that feature because it's bunk."
Member since:2005-12-05
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2005-11-02
They cut to many features. Why is there no option to leave the file save dialogs unfolded!? Or why can't you unmount devices with a right click in the places sidebar in Nautilus?
I second that !