These are the comments about gnome from FOSDEM visitors. Please add links to discussion or bugzilla where it fits. Note that the comments have been edited for the change in format and clarity.

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Things they like

  • I love f-spot.
  • K.I.S.S.
  • Epiphany, gnome-terminal!
  • Contacts! Dates! Tasks! ROCK
  • I use Gnucash and now I'm rich!
    • Wanna marry me?
  • Gnome is better than a pretty woman.
  • Gnome is sexy! +1
  • Tomboy rules.
  • Simplicity.
  • Nautilus + HAL + Tango icons = it just works.

  • Gnome is lighter than KDE for my old computer & easier to set up. Gnome PW!

    • XFCE4 Too. And WTF? FVWM.
  • Luis Villa.
  • It does what I say; Nothing else.
  • Not a little tiny problem, hope to go on this way when I'll use it!
  • Gnome Panel
  • Where the hell are the bars in Brussels? I use Gnome!

  • QT is a very good base ;-)

  • Twen was Here Gnome men ! )
  • Epiphany!
  • All!!! All!!! ♥ [heart drawn]
  • I love Nautilus.
  • Girole-gnome!
  • It Just Works(tm).
  • HIG
  • Simple, fit my geek's needs and my family ones!
  • Gnome is people! I love them.
  • Gnome 3.0 C# port +1

  • No Think! :(

  • All you need is Gnome.
  • Simple straightforward cfg. Multi-level config, most important first.
  • It works.
  • Gnome-Panel 75 the only one that works perfectly on vertical position. (Except doing it yourself with FVWM).

  • Clean & efficient.

  • Tny Hsh Tbl is aawesome!
  • How touchy is gconf-editor!!
  • Its actually pretty.
  • F-Sport, Beagle, Banshee, Tomboy, Last Exit.

  • The File Open/Save dialog ;-)

Things they do not like

  • I want to be able to resize windows with alt-right-click.
  • Get older developers.
  • Drag and drop selected text to the desktop. new file appears somewhere else that where I let go the button.
  • Nautilus is to slow. I use pcmanfm instead.
  • That's a feature not a bug.
  • KDE does not start when I execute: gnome-bin.

  • 113802 (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113802).

  • Totem doesn't have any option to setup codec behaviour! Neither cache size for the hardware filesystems.
  • Not enough preference settings.
  • Drawers don't close automatically and are very hard to close, if placed on an autohide panel.
  • When I click the gnome main menu, there is some hard-disk access and this causes a 3 seconds delay for displaying. Can't it stay in RAM?
  • Popup positioning (especially in panel).
  • Lax integration, dnd often does not work.
  • Nothing I can think of.
  • Gnome canvas sucks.
  • I want to hide the gnome panel with a keyboard shortcut. (bug requested in 2002).
  • Configuration laptop tools are not easy to have multi-profile configurations.
  • GConf is not for users.
  • libnotify and mathusalem should be more used to improve user experience.
  • Autotools #4¤%!@!x?
  • Gnome-terminal does not support 256 color ansi escape sequence.
  • Put the #@!% Cancel button at the right place, please.
  • Bonobo!
  • The PDF reader lacks bigger/smaller zoom buttons. Now it only shows 100% or 150% but I don't care about percentage, only larger or smaller.
  • That footstep is UGLY.
  • Huge memory footprint.
  • There is a _CLEAR_ lack of naked women for the wallpapers.

  • Fix the bug in gksu ( muhiwa_pierre@yahoo.fr ).

  • No good mobile phone support integration (bluetooth). What about bluetooth manager?
  • Printing landscape in Gnumeric is black art.
  • There is no way to enable Emacs keybindings.
    • Thats because Emacs is not an easy way to edit text, use Vim.
  • When will we finally get a featureful and free PDF viewer? Evince sucks with complex PDF documents.
  • I want to close windows with the middle mouse button. KTHX. _LINUS_
  • I can't configure anything to do with printing.
  • PRINTING.
  • GAIM pops up crap all the time when I am typing. Also when I am not typing.
    • GAIM is not GNOME. Use Gossip.
    • That "crap", those are your friends speaking to you.
  • Gnome power manager keeps crashing on my acer laptop. Switching to KDE.
  • Missing a global PIM accesible from all major apps 8contacts, scheduler, ...
    • EDS!
  • Mono based apps.
  • Gnome does not run on Nintendo DS lite.
    • But it runs on PS3.
  • Gnome-cups Icon likes to kill cpu and ram.
  • Someone to pay MDK to finish Diva.
  • Tabs in Nautilus.
    • Better MDI than tabs.
    • MDI is broken concept.
    • Then why tabs? Better window list instead?
    • Good question!
  • File dialog doesn't listen to "single click to open" setting.
  • File dialog Box: What about drag-to-save.
  • File chooser really sucks.
  • Get rid of that brain-damage file-open-save box.
  • The file dialog sucks big time.
  • Evolution is crap.
  • Evulution is way to heavy.
  • Evolution is crap, but I like it.
  • Dualscreen wallpapers.
  • Gnome-terminal leaks
    • Limit your history.
  • File/Path names truncated in nautilus dialogs. No way to see which file it is talking about (filed in bugzilla last week).
  • Nautilus is ugly.
  • Too much vaporware (Tracker, Tinymail)

  • Gnome should use qt!! :)

    • Qt should use gtk!
      • Gtk should use #asm
  • Dual monitor setup is #$!@! especialy is 2 different servers.
    • Screw you, keith.
  • Need new mono based filemanager.
  • Don't ignore users, they know best. Linus is trying to tell you this.
    • Linus is only to prove that he is more clever that gnome devs.
  • I need to use GConf editor to create keyboard shortcuts for custom applications.
  • Gnome!
  • On big bug on Gnome: KDE users.
  • GStreamer.
  • I could not find my iTunes.
  • Default look and feel.
  • Stop with those sad colors.
  • More and more based on .net patented technology.
  • Allow middle button to open URI in epiphany.
  • Alt-F2 runbox does not search ~/bin
  • Get a stand on FOSDEM.
  • Multiline taskbar can't do window style item listing (left to right, then(?) top to bottom)
  • Needs to use the "open file" interface space button. I can't really make a lot of it, on a 800x600 screen. Otherwise great job.
  • The clock in the panel fails to take the BG color into account for transparent panels.
  • Nautilus with "single click open" option is hard to use for selecting / unselecting.

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Events/Brussels2007/LoveWall (last edited 2013-12-03 23:51:43 by WilliamJonMcCann)