Friday, December 11, 2009

Gnome still lacking and probably heading in wrong direction

Gnome has copied lot of things from KDE and Windows, but in an effort to be different, it has done many wrong things. Many of the changes were unnecessary, many of them create confusion, many of them are annoying, and many of them hampers your productivity and fun.

What is the need for two bars - one up and one down? It's a just waste of costly screen real state.

In the most recent one, the shutdown, restart etc was put in a different menu and put on the right corner. What is the point of doing this? Just to be different? What is the keyboard shortcut for this menu? Can you execute these commands without touching a mouse?

I have found many applications in Gnome which does not have keyboard shortcuts and can't be used without a mouse. That is the beauty of KDE and Windows, you can do everything without a mouse, just by using keyboard shortcuts and it increases your productivity by many folds.

There is a menu for Preferences and many of the items in the list are confusing. You click on an item, explore the application, find that the settings you were looking for is not there, so you close it and repeat the whole thing in the hope that this time you don't have to repeat the whole thing. How irritating!!! There is no reason why all the items in the Preference menu can't be put in a single application like KDE Control Center or Windows Control Panel. Same is applicable to Administration Menu.

Gnome just sux!!!
Nowhere close to KDE!!!

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