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Old 19th May 2011
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Originally Posted by thirdm View Post
For my own uses, of course, it's irrelevant. But did you see the undeadly article recently by Antoine Jacoutot about how he uses OpenBSD as desktop OS with Gnome as the shell where he works? For his sake, I hope the damage people like this do is moderated by other voices.
Yes, I have seen Antoine's article. I even posted a refutal to one of moronic comments claiming that OpenBSD doesn't support network scanners and printers.

Listen, Antoine is paid to support Gnome. In my experience common user tend to get used to their GUI and stick to it. If you give them Gnome they expect to see classical Gnome outlook. A good system administrator will know that and if he puts KDE he will configure it to look just as a Gnome. If Antoine's company uses KDE the article could have been rewritten probably using sed.

Code:
$ sed 's/Gnome/KDE/g' old_article.txt > new_article.txt
There is a definitely need for a common desktop environment (formerly CDE) if Unix is to survive in any shape or form on the desktop (at least for common users). Unless you count Linux as some form of Unix, that battle in U.S. is lost due to the lack of commercial vendors (yes I know ix systems and the yada yada).

If Gnome people wants to contribute good. If not we shouldn't be crying here and
worry about the decisions we have no control over.

I hope that Gtk project doesn't follow the steps of Gnome because that would definitely create more problems at least on the short run.

Last edited by Oko; 19th May 2011 at 08:13 PM.
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