Le jeudi 26 juillet 2007 à 11:38 +0200, Florent Rougon a écrit : > Seems very clear to me: it has been almost a decade now since the GNOME > project tries hard to get rid of every feature that makes their software > more usable (I'm speaking here about real usability, not about > eye-candy).
Eye candy... oh right, this must be why there are so many people interested in bringing a compositing manager to metacity, rather than improving performance or rendering quality. > Witness: > - usable completion in the File Open dialog -> gone And back in GTK 2.10. > - customizable keyboard shortcuts in apps[1] -> gone This feature, despite its coolness, was more a source of annoyance by setting shortcuts by mistake than anything else. Plus, as you wrote later, it is hidden, not removed. > And now, a usable menu listing available applications is going to be > replaced by a "thing" where you have to find your casually-used app in a > 300-entries unstructered list after clicking on "More applications..." > (exactly as the "Open With..." in MS Windows works, no wonder where they > got the idea). > > So, yes, there *is* a reason GNOME is going to switch to > gnome-main-menu: the previous menu still had a little remainder of > (real) usability. The software you are talking about was rejected for inclusion in GNOME 2.18, and is not part of the GNOME 2.19 desktop. > [1] No, don't tell me that it is a simple matter of adding > "gtk-can-change-accels=1" to ~/.gtkrc-2.0. This simply *does* > *not* *work*. For instance, even with this, you have to go hunt > for the specific option in Gimp's Preferences menu before you can > at last add your own keyboard shortcuts. Ugh. This is a problem in GIMP, not in GNOME. -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness to `- our own. Resistance is futile.
