They look great in Epiphany, however, and its beyond me how Firefox became the default GNOME browser… Desktop search is better, and Beagle’s memory usage and startup time is improved greatly, but of course it’s still not standard yet. The fonts in Firefox suck goat nuts, because Firefox doesn’t use the same font-handling paths as GNOME, apparently. There is a nifty Expose-like when you hit the top-right corner, but there is no mention of the feature in any of the preferences dialogs. I know why it happens, but its something that’d be completely non-obvious to a user that was unfamiliar with the stack.
When you select “Enable Desktop Effects”, your window decorations suddenly change, and your window preferences no longer respond as expected (ie: double-click to maximize). Compiz is not well-integrated into GNOME yet. But, its very clear there is major consolidation that needs to happen. I installed Fedora Core 6 on my Macbook the other day, and I have to say, it really is very slick.
OS X is at the point where it can afford to make little incremental improvements in Leopard, while GNOME doesn’t have that luxury.
OS X has improved more incrementally, but OS X also had a big head start to begin with. Sure, the UI is still inferior to GNOME’s, but that’s more a problem of a lack of taste, not a lack of progress. Vista contains more improvements than have been made in GNOME since 2.x.
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Windows Vista, MacOSX and KDE4 don’t really contain anything earth shattering, they are basically increamental improvements over the predecessors. How is that a refutation of Thom’s point?Īnd to be honest incremental improvements is what everyone is doing these days. Right, so there is no clear vision for GNOME 3 because… they really don’t know what GNOME 3 should look like. Well this is true, but that is mostly due to not having any clear ideas for something that would require a GNOME 3. Somebody is definitely in denial about the improvements the competition is making.įirst of all he critized GNOME for not having a clear vision for GNOME 3. I’m so grateful there are people working on KDE that know how important these early stages are and I thank them for having the motivation to work on the dull stuff before getting carried away with eye-candy. Keep watching and my bet is that Thom will change his tune as soon as some public previews become available and the developers are happy to say “Yeah we’re nearly done”. KDE4 will be great, and of course there isn’t much to see yet it’s called infrastructure and having one is a good thing. Personally I use KDE so forgive me for glossing over Gnome (I don’t know enough to comment on it). I don’t mind that, we should have people talking even if some emotion needs to be generated to do it. My comment on the article is that I’m sure Thom’s original post was more about being read and generating interest than actually reviewing what most people think about “The Linux Desktop”.
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