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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2025 14:06:37 +0000
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On 03/01/2025 13:56, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
> On 2025-01-03 06:28, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> On 02/01/2025 20:06, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>>> On 2025-01-02 14:42, rbowman wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 08:36:41 -0500, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I find GNOME rather clunky whereas KDE, at least on Fedora and Nobara,
>>>>> is perfect out of the box. I imagine that a lot of people who try out
>>>>> Linux and face GNOME are going to wonder how to do the basics, and 
>>>>> they
>>>>> will likely find that the way extensions work is rather clunky,
>>>>> especially during upgrades. Meanwhile, KDE is very familiar and 
>>>>> offers a
>>>>> ton of features they could only dream of in Windows like the desktop
>>>>> effects, theming options and widgets. Unlike Cinnamon too, the widgets
>>>>> in KDE actually work as they should.
>>>>
>>>> The Ubuntu box has GNOME. I live with it but I'm not a fan. I'd rather
>>>> have a menu structure rather than the 'Show Applications' button that
>>>> brings up three or four screens of unsorted stuff.
>>>
>>> GNOME was designed with the belief that anyone looking for an 
>>> application will press the Windows key and then type the name of what 
>>> they're looking for rather than select it from a menu. That's how I 
>>> do it whether I use Windows, GNOME or KDE so I would agree with their 
>>> design choice.
>>>
>> Odd, since MATE - a superset of GNOME - expects you to use a menu. Its 
>> very XP like.
>>
>> And since XP was what I was running when I switched entirely to Linux, 
>> I didn't have to relearn very much at all..
> 
> We are talking about GNOME _now_ not then.
> 
Fairy Nuff. I have no idea what it is now, but MATE is still built on 
gnome3  libraries AFAIK
And was a sort of fork of gnome2 desktop



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