Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th Mar 2007 22:10 UTC
"Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.18, the latest version of the popular, multi-platform Free desktop environment." The GNOME 2.18 start page has all the details, such as release notes, download locations, and screenshots.
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2005-07-06
It looks like someone started with the objective of showing that user levels are bad and proceeded to contrive some reasons why it must be true.
And you also say:
I'm a big believer in empirical evidence
Since Nautilus used to have user levels, you should perhaps search in the mailinglist for the reasons and argument used when it was removed. It basicly boils down to that they tried it, and it did not work.
But I have yet to see a shred of evidence that stuffing everything that is not in the "one size fits all" interface into gconf-editor is a superior solution.
You are comparing two flawed approaches to solve the problem, so none is superior. The gconf-editor is grossly overused. The concept may have merit if only a small fraction of the options are exclusively reachable by gconf, but keeping the largest part reachable trough regular and sanely arranged configuration panels.
KDE users, I have a question for you. If Gnome provided you with more options and configurability by simply setting your interface mode to "Power User" or whatever, would it be a more attractive desktop to you
No, it's not about the configurability, it's about the applications. And in general the KDE applications have more functionality, which I tend to use, compared to the Gnome alternatives.