[ale] Gnome workspace and overlapping windows

Jim jcphil at mindspring.com
Mon Mar 17 14:56:53 EST 2003


On Monday 17 March 2003 02:46 pm, John Wells wrote:
> James P. Kinney III said:
> > RH8 took away many of the user controls over the desktop environment
> > that were in use for 7.x. I'm not particularly happy about them either.
>
> Not necessarily.  They just made them harder to find.
>
> You can edit most desktop settings not readily available through Red Hat's
> config tools using /usr/bin/gconf-editor.
>
> Sad thing is, gnome went to this eerily Windows Registry-feeling config
> setup ;-).

I have read some articles recently where the Gnome developers said they have 
made a conscious effort to take some config options away, because they feel 
they create a support/stability problem. Rabid KDE fans attacked this 
philosophy immediately.
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