Linux desktop lacks innovation

[Joel Bryan Juliano]

On Nov 20, 2007 3:06 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Nov 17, 2007 5:28 PM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> > Liam Proven wrote:
> >
> > > On Nov 16, 2007 12:53 AM, Derek Broughton < news at pointerstop.ca>
> wrote:
> > >> Liam Proven wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > On Nov 14, 2007 5:03 PM, Derek Broughton < news at pointerstop.ca>
> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> >> Interesting.  And I'd really like to try some non-Windows clones,
> but
> > >> >> going
> > >> >> back to an 80's look & feel????  I don't think so.  And I'm not
> giving
> > >> >> up konqueror :-)
> > >> >
> > >> > Glad you like it. I can't stand Konqui myself.
> > >> >
> > >> > But anyway. Who said anything about going back to the 80s? ROX and
> > >> > GNUstep are both perfectly modern GUIs.
> > >>
> > >> Er, you did.  When you talked about ROX having an 80s look.  I
> remember
> > >> the
> > >> 80s.  There's nothing about that decade that I want to remember,
> prior to
> > >> November 1989.
> > >
> > > See, this is what I mean about uninformed comment.
> >
> > Lovely.  I read your article (every word), agreed with much of it, and
> took
> > issue with _one_ item, and you call it uninformed comment.  Well, if my
> > comment is uninformed, then it was only based on uninformed sources (ie,
> > yours).
> > >
> > > Name a new desktop GUI that has appeared in the 2000s. Go on. *One*.
> >
> > Why?  I agreed, I'd like to see some innovation.
> >
> > > All you ever use - all anyone ever uses - is 1980s tech. ROX and
> > > GNUstep are no more 80s than Windows or the Mac.
> >
> > And I didn't say it was - but _you_ cited the retro 80s look - and I
> don't
> > _want_ an 80s look.
> >
> > > "I won't use something from the 80s" indeed. What drivel. You'd better
> > > get an abacus then, 'cos the alternative is a command line, and that's
>
> > > from the 1960s.
> >
> > I'm shocked!  You represented yourself as a journalist, and then indulge
> in
> > such flagrant misquoting.  I never said that.  I never even said
> anything
> > _close_ to that.  You, sir, are a fraud.
> >
> > <plonk>
>
> [Laughter]
>
> Right. So let me get this straight.
>
> You say you won't use an 80s desktop.
> I point out that I suggested two modern desktops written in the 21st
> Century.
> You say that they'd be too old-fashioned.
> I point out that any desktop you use today is based on 80s or at least
> mid-90s designs.
> And you stomp off in a huff?
>
> This is the cut-and-thrust of modern online discourse in the online
> twenty-first century?
>
> I must have missed an announcement, or something.
>

We live in a world where there are 90% talkers, and 10% doers,
and I suggest everyone to submit a bug reports to Gnome bugzilla featuring
your
ideas on what need to be fixed..

-- 
♐ Rules!!
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