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16. I feel like Gnome3 makes way too many decisions for the user

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 09:44 AM

Feb 2013

Like, the shell is one example of what a good configurable compositing desktop could look like, but rather than build the framework and set that as a default, they just made it only that way. And then there's the stupidity about the notification area: "things can't blink". Why the fuck not? It's a great way of being informative. Plus empathy bugs the hell out of me, and they should have swallowed their pride and stuck with pidgin.

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