Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 2nd Aug 2009 20:12 UTC, submitted by kiddo
A common complaint about GNOME is that it has a certain fetish for icons. Menu entries, buttons - everything has an icon attached to it which often wastes space needlessly by making buttons larger than they need to be, as well as menus wider than they need to be. The good news (for me, at least) is that the next GNOME release will have all these icons removed.
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Member since:2005-11-21
Yes, well GNOME isn't Nextstep or OS X is it, it's a totally different desktop metaphor. I wonder if you realise how tiresome your incessant Nextstep-related interjections become, because to me it seems you insert them everywhere you go, regardless of their relevance to the matter at hand.
Now to try and keep this post somewhat on-topic, I would add that GNOME does tend towards a rather reductionist or even minimalist desktop experience, and the removal of button icons is rather in keeping with that. I kind of like button & menu item icons myself, but it would be interesting to see if GNOME could make a clean, useful interface without them.
Now to try and keep this post somewhat on-topic, I would add that GNOME does tend towards a rather reductionist or even minimalist desktop experience, and the removal of button icons is rather in keeping with that. I kind of like button & menu item icons myself, but it would be interesting to see if GNOME could make a clean, useful interface without them.
You have no balls in your content as usual.
The entire menu structure of GNOME is a rip off of old Mac OS.
In fact, it's a piss poor rip off. The free desktop org group can't even have an intelligent menu system and has to crowd everything with links to applications within the Menu [mostly broken even on Debian and doesn't play very nicely with KDE] all to avoid the need of a useful Workspace Manager or Finder [both with their own shortcoming (I give Workspace Manager more slack because it stopped being updated 15 years ago whereas OS X is finally getting its crap together and making the entire OS environment Cocoa) and allow people to go to a sensible /Apps, /LocalApps metaphor and just double click app links from those respective directories.
Member since:2005-07-24
You have no balls in your content as usual. The entire menu structure of GNOME is a rip off of old Mac OS. In fact, it's a piss poor...
Well, I suppose that no desktop thread on OSNews would really be complete without Tyrione's mindless, droning, and incessant Apple cheerleading, nor the venomous and vile calumnies he so regularly hurls at... oh... pretty much everything that is "Not Apple".
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2006-12-20
Yes, well GNOME isn't Nextstep or OS X is it, it's a totally different desktop metaphor. I wonder if you realise how tiresome your incessant Nextstep-related interjections become, because to me it seems you insert them everywhere you go, regardless of their relevance to the matter at hand.
Now to try and keep this post somewhat on-topic, I would add that GNOME does tend towards a rather reductionist or even minimalist desktop experience, and the removal of button icons is rather in keeping with that. I kind of like button & menu item icons myself, but it would be interesting to see if GNOME could make a clean, useful interface without them.