On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:15 AM, James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/21/11, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203(a)freenet.de> wrote:
> On 03/21/2011 11:34 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>
>> I can see the logic in that, but it's a shame. If everyone who wants
>> a bit of user interface stability jumps ship there will be no brakes
>> on the Gnome developers at all: they'll just carry on deleting user-
>> configurability and adding kewl new features.
>
> Isn't this what the people who are promoting Gnome 3 in Fedora intend?
I don't think that is the intent. I don't think this is the intent of
the Gnome3 developers either. However, as Linux moves from a niche to
prominenance we are going to pick up the ID10Ts that will click on a
button just to see what happens and then cry when their Gnome
installation is broken and cannot follow obviously simple
instructions. Then they go out and trash Linux. Never mind they
brought this upon themselves, Linux sucks and that is their mantra.
This argument doesn't hold water.
Take the simple-greeter "disable_user_list" setting.
In GNOME, you either have to use gconftool-2 or install and use
gconf-editor to switch "disable_user_list" on or off.
On OS X (which is supposed to be for people who don't know how to use
computers...), changing the equivalent setting is an easily-clickable
option in the "Accounts" pane of "System Preferences".