[Desktop_architects] GNOME

Bryce Harrington bryce at osdl.org
Thu Dec 22 17:09:34 PST 2005


On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 10:51:38PM -0600, Burns, Jason wrote:
> The problem I have with Gnome.

This is probably not the right forum for this discussion.  You probably
want to submit this to one of the Gnome lists or bug trackers.

Bryce

> Gnome looks awesome, but it is very limited!  To fix this, you should
> add a default "command line here" to right click or to the upper menu
> for each window.  It is hard to go to a command line and then run
> something like for example: a tar from a command line when you need to
> type in the whole path first because the command line window doesn't
> take you to the path you were in from Gnome's GUI.  I know you can get
> it to work by doing a bunch of junk to get a command line interface from
> a menu, but this is way too much to do right from the start!  It should
> be included as a tool by default!  What is Linux without a CLI interface
> that is easy to get to no matter where you are?  Gnome is like a weak
> version of a Linux GUI because of this. (Desktop Manager)  I will switch
> back from KDE (Power) to Gnome (Pretty) when Gnome (Pretty) gets this
> "CLI Here" feature back as a default like KDE (Power) has included.  I
> understand simplicity, as long as it doesn't interfere with the power
> aspect.  I love Gnome's GUI otherwise!  It's beautiful!
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason
> 
> 
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