On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 11:07:30AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
Surely we should be arguing about ease of use (and power) rather than looks. The aim is to give the user that ability to do what they need to do easily and *then*, maybe, make it look pretty.
Which is sorta the point from the beginning, there are many ways of doing things with people having individual preferences, I already have said that doing things your way or being forced to use KDE (which I was at one point for several months) are not suited to the way I work, get in the way and annoy me. The behaviour that you originally had a whinge about is something I like and works well for *me* I certainly don't want to be dictated to by your choices on how I should work.
This is what Ian and Brett have been saying with having a choice, the whole point of using Free Software is that you have a greater choice, and if you /really/ don't like something then you can fix it or change it. If you don't like the way Linux/Free Software works then you still have the choice of a multitude of different operating systems/environments out there. Brett already pointed out that you installed Firefox of your own free will, and then complained about it because (what it essentially comes down to) you encountered something different/new hadn't read the docs so whinged about it, rather than being productive, looking at how it works and either changing it or using something else.
Thanks Adam