Re: a couple of words from a former KDE user
- From: "Ravi Kumar" <ra21vi@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 14:58:34 +0530
On 3/5/07, andrei raevsky <raevsky.andrei@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi guys,
For years I used to have KDE on all my machines and I was very happy with
it. Then I switched most of my machines to gNewSense (website: www.*
gnewsense*.org/ , review:
http://distrowatch.gds.tuwien.ac.at/weekly.php?issue=20070108#review)
which has Gnome as a default desktop (even though a KDE version is also
available). So after years of KDE use I was forced to give Gnome another
try.
Guys - I *loved* it. While Gnome has less stuff than the huge KDE
Desktop+OfficeSuite+applets, it has, I think, better designed and better
integrated tools. I find Gnome wonderfully well organized and each tool is
more stable and 'purer' in its interface. My *only* regret is that Nautilus
does not allow tabs, but other than that I love Gnome and I will stick with
it.
Then I remembered the ugly campaign by Torvalds (and others) of trashing
Gnome which, frankly, at the time I did not care about either way. Now
looking back on it, I think that all that was in an expression of Torvald's
hatred of *anything* with 'GNU' in it which itself, is an extension of his
hatred of anything related to RMS (be it Gnome or the GPL3).
Anyway - I just wanted to post a big THANK YOU to all the guys which make
Gnome possible and tell them (-: assuming that is needed in the first place
:-) that I wish them all the best and that I hope that some ugly comments
about their fantastic work did not discourage them.
Kind regards and many, many thanks,
Andrei
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Guys, I want to suggest something in Gnome. As far as KDE is concerned, I
too used it, till I was using Gentoo. Then i switched to Ubuntu and
completely to GNOME. and In the past 1 year, i have seen enormous
developments in both. Linux is going to mature at desktop pcs.
There is something i really would like in GNOME.
First is, better Font rendering/antialiasing, (though it has a good right
now), like OSX.
Another thing is a system default theme developed by our artist which would
be compact and much clear and lightweight. Color and Clarity is the key.
A redesign of the main menu, which would include the user name in it too.
The menu items height should be designed to take little less space, so
creating compact menu. Current main menu seems lot expanded.
The width of the menu item should be consistent to the sub-menus too. The
icons size will be in this case 1 pixel less from up and 1 pixel less from
bottom border lines.
One of the main concern is choosing a font that is too much clear even in
small sizes. If not, we should be designing a font specific for menu items,
not document or something.
Well thats end of msg. I tried to say these all somewhere. But let me know,
if you people too want somethjing like this, I would be interested in giving
my time reseaching better look of main menu. Then I will submit the request.
Right now i m attaching a simple (quick-designed) main menu idea. give me
your opinion.
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-=Ravi=-
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