Genuine question:
Why is the GNOME project still dominant, when they consistently make arbitrary changes and refuse to listen to their users?
The GNOME developers removed it.
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#12You can always go KDE. In file management however, Dolphin is still an awkward kid compared to Konqueror, but hey, it's still there.
Dolphin is probably the best file manager out there. The grouped view and meta data sorting is something that was really missing in the old Konqueror (and every other FM on Linux). The new (4.8+) display engine speed, agility and animations are also quite amazing. Of course, as I developer, I enjoyed more than once Konqueror ability to open everything inline (from remote servers), but this is not missing from Dolphin. You can still use KIO, tabs and (limited) splits. The interface is overall better. Not being able to open files inline is not very relevant (Okular is there for that).
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#13Genuine question: Why is the GNOME project still dominant, when they consistently make arbitrary changes and refuse to listen to their users?
Why was Microsoft dominant from Windows ME to the release of Win7?
Why: It is hard to break a dominant position when they enjoy 2 order of magnitude more corporate support than their closest rivals.
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#14I upgraded my 12.10 Gnome REMIX to 13.04 Ubuntu Gnome when it prompted me during my regular software updates, it f*cked up everything on my system. Figured there would be changes, didn't know it would be this bad.
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#15http://xfce.org/ It's never too late...
I'm a fan of Ubuntu Unity and compiz, but everyone is going to yell at me. :(
I rather like Unity (12.04 LTS edition) on a 1080p monitor. I find it difficult on a smaller screen (e.g. 1280/768) so I use Ubuntustudio 13.04 which comes with XFCE4 in a rather nice implementation on my thinkpad.
I'm sitting out 13.04 Unity because of the LibreOffice menu highlighting and shortcut bugs.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/7...
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#16Just a few more features to discard and Nautilus will finally reach feature parity with dfm.
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#17As a non-artist, I can never even hope to understand the complex design choices that the GNOME developers make. http://i.imgur.com/VXwiUdU.png
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#18As Nautilus has been horribly slow for a long time, I switched to PCManFM, the file manager of LXDE. It integrates well with GNOME, and is pretty much full-featured. There's also a status bar ;-) The only weird thing is that in the "detailed list view", the sort order cannot be changed by clicking the column headers.
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#19As a non-artist, I can never even hope to understand the complex design choices that the GNOME developers make. http://i.imgur.com/VXwiUdU.png
That appears to be the Unity desktop in Ubuntu. The full Gnome 3 experience is different and does not have the duplication from the global menu.
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#20Genuine question: Why is the GNOME project still dominant, when they consistently make arbitrary changes and refuse to listen to their users?
Well, I don't think that's completely true.
I like the majority of the changes they've made in recent years. I think Gnome Shell is the best desktop around. It's not perfect, and the GNOME people do make the occasional UI blunder, but I'm not sure what else you're expecting. It's basically impossible to have a widely used project like this move forward because every change brings loud angry people who were totally using that.
I think the reason why GNOME is still dominant is because they're willing to ignore their users and make hard choices, not in spite of it.