Journal anonymous coword's Journal: Gnome 2.4, A major disapointment, I'mswitching to KDE 3.2-a! 1
I have recently installed Gnome 2.4 from mandrake cooker, but it is a very disapointing release. I reccomend others to either stick to Gnome 2.2 or use the new KDE 3.2 [kde.org] alpha when its released soon.
Here is why GNOME 2.4 is worse than gnome 2.2.
* Still has that horrible file dialog!
* File roller has removed the extract here option from the right click menu, now you have go through about 5 menus just to extract a file
* Metacity still dosen't support button reordering (hacking its gconf registry dosen't count)
* Nautilus still dosen't have split pane support (konqueror is famous for that).
* The new panel architecture sucks! Its harder to use and configure.
* Epiphany, which was once going to be a lean browsing machine, has been turned into an AOL clone! Its a shameful 1.0 release, and they removed Bookmark folders, now my bookmarks will be cluttred, I'm concidering switching to Mozillabird.
* Still no colour scheme changer, windows had this from 1.0, and kde too.
* Wanda the fish still looks stupid.
* Totem still crashes on avi files. If it didn't use the inferior Xine libraries and used mplayer this wouldn't happen
* The documentation is still incomplete.
* The anti feature police have taken over 100 features away from Gnome since 2.2, I can't list them all, figure it out for yourself
* bonobo-slay still annoys me.
* The smelly foot is still there, with NO WAY TO change it, since the feature police took it away.
Please boycott gnome until they put the features back, I AM A REALLY ANGRY (soon to be ex-)GNOME USER! WHEN KDE 3.2 ALPHA COMES OUT I'M SWITCHING! WILL YOU?
Button reordering (Score:2)
That's because Gnome is designed so that a user should know what to do without thinking about it too hard. If the buttons on the window border keeping getting flipped round, it adds uncertainty as to which button does what.