On Thu, January 8, 2015 10:52 am, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Warren Young wyml@etr-usa.com wrote:
Would the world really be a better place if CDE had never been replaced? Me, Iâll take GNOME 3 and all its warts over CDE any day of the week. CDE never would have *evolved* to be the equal of GNOME; it had to be destroyed to make room.
But it doesn't matter how pretty Gnome3 is on some other box. I use remote connections through NX/freenx or x2go exclusively. Gnome3 won't work that way. And that's typical of the changes.
Let me second you. I for one have fled from Gnome (on my FreeBSD workstation, - once the upgrade made me switch from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3). I need the job done, and want my GUI User Interface be what was perfectly suitable for long time. I do not care of its looks or fanciness of "ultimately different" user experience. Therefore I fled from Gnome to mate. (The decision was made after 2 weeks of frustration of doing in Gnome 3 the work I usually was doing on my workstation)
This is just my $0.02 (and note, this is from me, the one who is "not ready to join ipad generation").
Just on a side note: I question intelligence of an attitude that something (that works for some people) has to be destroyed to make room for something else one thinks to be more appropriate.
Valeri
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++