M> > I have tried to like Unity.. I really tried.. but just can't get i
M>
M> +1. I am not adverse to change. I've tried also on many occasions t
M> d up continously frustrated. I
am back to Gnome Fallback until 2017
I have to say, I was a very early adopter of KDE vs. Gnome around the
time of Windows 98's release, when KDE looked like a hybrid of "Chose
your adventure: Mac OS System 7 style, or Windows 95 style, or both!"
and gnome had this sort of "We look like windows/mac, but we're doing
our own thing, too, and, we're not even really a window manager, we're
a suite of many things". I even assisted in authoring GTK-ICQ, because
we were so gaga over GTK/Gnome and were so pleased when GTK 2.0 was
released with themes.
Anyway I ended up in Windowmaker shortly after, stuck with it for a
long time, and before Gnome and KDE both went to shit by committee, I
ended up reverting to twm and later cwm -- versions of window managers
that were originally used in the 1980's! With (gasp!)
focus-folows-mouse by default.
Its been nearly 10 years now that I've stuck with that -- other than
using OSX quite a bit, and although not TERRIBLY happy with it, I'm
pretty pleased with their most recent "fullscreen" modes, which allows
me to have my fullscreen, borderless terminals, just like I get with
cwm, and iTerm gives me the multiple terminals, fullscreen, split
horizontally or vertically, though, i never learned to use it,
fullscreen is fine enough so long as I can swap between the tabs easily
with <cloverleaf>-<left/right>.
Anyway, its a little sad to see all of the linux/bsd mailing
list/discussion forums just littered with complains and griefs about
the directions gnome and kde has gone. I feel like it has distracted an
accumulated hundreds of thousands of hours of productivity from people
who wanted more to their computer than figuring out how to customize
their window manager to just manage their god damned windows without
being so difficult -- or changing or breaking those customizations
every 6 months.
Window management really isn't all that hard.... at least apple, even
though I disagree with their color-based icons for changing window size
to maximum/minimum/whatever-it-actually-does-with-itunes, at least its
been that way since the early 90's and its still that way today. My
last job had us using Windows 8 and the Metro interface confused the
hell out of me and cost me a lot of frustration and effort to find my
way around that I really would have rather spent getting work done D:
Why must they keep changing it? Is managing windows really so hard? Who
actually *wants* one window partially obscured and covered by another?
isn't -everything-is-fullscreen- really what we've always wanted, ala
the iOS devices and such? When you end up getting a 27" monitor, don't
you really just wish you had two seperate 19" monitors instead?
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