[wplug] My distro beat up your distro (yet again, sigh) -- WAS: OS X on Linux?

[Patrick Wagstrom]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 14:48 -0700, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
>> I'm starting to understand why KDE users argue against GNOME's hiding
>> of features.  Now, I like GNOME's level of hiding stuff, but Aqua is
>> annoying me to no end.
> 
> Well, it's not that GNOME really or purposely "hides" things, but they
> have a nasty habit of developing features or options, but not GUI to
> change them (other than GConf -- hmmm, sounds like another OS? ;).

As someone who contributes to GNOME, I can say that your statement is 
incorrect.  While authors may choose to allow other options to be 
configured through the registry, the mantra for GNOME is just to do 
things right from the beginning.  If you're arguing for a configuration 
option in an application, there had better be a good reason for it.

That being said, I think we're (as in people who code, document, and 
market GNOME) are doing a great job of just making a system that works 
without having to worry about configuration.

It's a shift in mindset, but it's a little like going from C programming 
to Python.  Once you realize that you don't need to mess around with 
settings you'll be much more productive.

--Patrick