From: "Jeff Spaleta" jspaleta@gmail.com Reply-To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases fedora-test-list@redhat.com To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" fedora-test-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Why is xscreensaver removed in favor of gnome-screensaver Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:22:38 -0500
On 2/17/06, Miles Lane miles.lane@gmail.com wrote:
Personally, I think the Gnome developers' know-it-all attitude is stupid and offensive. Dang it! They take their bloody "present no options to the users" too far! Idiots!
I would not label the Gnome developers as idiots as Linus Torvalds did over the gnome print issue but I do find it frustrating at times that their "ease of use" and it "just works" ideas to be in conflict with a lack of user control.
For example I liked playing with the xmatrix controls just to see what they did. Even if that was a bad idea because xmatrix seems to chew up a lot of cpu and battery life and at one time did nasty things to memory.
I usually just leave a blank screen as a screensaver most of the time to save battery but it is fun to play sometimes while you are waiting for a download to finish. I guess thats why there will probally never be just one desktop. Some like control, some like no controls. Luckily we have lots of choices. Lets start a flame war over something more interesting. How about we start one on ndiswrapper. Boy we should nuke those 8k stack options and tell windows driver fanboys to go jump in a lake. 4k stacks are so much better for performance. There, I feel much better now !