CentOS - Jan 2016 - Just need to vent

Alice, your rant is just whining.
It's open source. If you don't like it, modify it.

You cannot compare something which you basically get for free to what is
funded by for-profit companies.

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Alice Wonder <alice at domblogger.net>
wrote:
> On 01/25/2016 01:28 AM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote:
>
>> I personally love Gnome3 on Fedora. It took me about a week to adjust
my
>> mindset though -- I did that over a Xmas break.
>>
>> It did help that I read the release notes first (so I was not surprised
at
>> the major change) and went through the tutorial the developers
provided.
>>
>> An interesting exercise re-examining and critiquing old workflows and
>> exploring alternatives.  It works really well on the smallish laptop
that
>> I
>> use while commuting and which I plug into a couple of monitors when I
get
>> to work.  Its great the way it frees up screen real estate and
encourages
>> me to focus on "what I am doing" rather than distracting me
with "things I
>> might want to do".
>> ?
>> Reading the release notes before installing an OS is a really good
idea.?
>> Fedora and RedHat do a really good job with their release notes.
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> Some people adapt to new workflows easily, others do not.
>
> But regardless of the workflow - back to my original point - it's
pretty
> damn stupid that choosing a font for a text editor not only includes all
> fonts regardless of variable width or monospace, but doesn't identify
which
> fonts in the selection are monospace.
>
> How can something like that be missed by their QA / UI testing?
>
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On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 18:41 +0500, Micky wrote:
> Alice, your rant is just whining.
It is pertinent. It is lucidly expressed and many concur.
> It's open source. If you don't like it, modify it.
That can be an onerous burden especially when one lacks knowledge and
time.
> You cannot compare something which you basically get for free to what is
> funded by for-profit companies.
Of course Alice can. All of us can. Hopefully it is constructive
criticism.  Seeing good software being replaced by less good, less
useful and more awkward software usually provoke the software's users to
protest.

Free software should be funded. In the European Union (28 member states)
funding could easily be provided by the EU to support Open Source
Software. Just consider how much government cash M$ has received (USD
billions). A few million Euros to OSS is certainly desirable.

As a C5 Gnome 2 user I dread G3 when I move my desktop to C6. Mate seems
an alternative.  Anyone know more about the G2 folk ?



-- 
Regards,

Paul.
England, EU.      England's place is in the European Union.

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 03:56:21PM +0000, Always Learning
wrote:
> Of course Alice can. All of us can. Hopefully it is constructive
> criticism.  Seeing good software being replaced by less good, less
> useful and more awkward software usually provoke the software's users
to
> protest.
Complaining on the CentOS list is probably not that productive, though.

-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>

On 2016-01-25, Always Learning
<centos at u64.u22.net> wrote:

[...]
> As a C5 Gnome 2 user I dread G3 when I move my desktop to C6. Mate seems
> an alternative.  Anyone know more about the G2 folk ?
C6 features G2. Nothing to dread.

-- 

Liam