Has GNOME Become LAME?

auferstehung writes "Nicholas Petreley (should that be KNicholas KPetreley) of LinuxWorld and VarLinux.org has taken his gloves off in the latest article in his KDE vs Gnome series. An unabashed KDE supporter, Petreley uses some choice fighting words in re-acronymizing GNOME as the Language Agnostic Morphable Environment (LAME) Franken-GUI. Despite the sensationalistic flamage throughout the article, several of his GNOME criticisms (Gconf, file selector, features) echo those already voiced within the GNOME community itself. A happy GNOME user myself, please someone...tell me it isn't so."

Yes

[Anonymous Coward]

It Has!!!

Mp3?!

[Anonymous Coward]

Since when does Gnome encode to mp3?!

Lame Ain't an MP3 Encoder!

Re:The only once inside the GNOME-community

[GauteL]

"once inside"?

HA! The preview button is for cowards.

How about

[SourKAT]

if we all step on wet paint and then put a GNOME logo on his butt.

who gives a fuck

[Herr_Nightingale]

I used to care about these KDE vs. GNOME wars, but you know what? They're both equally useless, when it comes right down to it. Bloat is bloat is bloat. Who gives a fuck, really, when there are alternatives like Windows 2000 or Mac OS X? Come on, fringe users don't count.

Whoops. I think I just offended about .0001 percent of the population. Somebody mod me down!

well...

[Unominous Coward]

my GNOME has always sat silently on my front porch. And now it's singing MP3s encoded with LAME?
Who would've though that open source software would lead to a singing GNOME?

Excellent topic for discussion...

[gnovos]

As a followup, I wonder if we can finally settle which religion is the one true faith and whether or not abortion should be legal.

Re:Can't these kids grow up?

[rseuhs]

I am very tired of reading flame wars between Gnome and KDE.

my desktop looks cluttered and Kalling Keverything Kfoo.Kbar Ketc Kgives Kme Kthe Kshits...

You don't seem so tired of flame wars at all...

Hey!

[tortap-0]

That's GLAME to you mister.

Re:Because it's backed by RedHat and Sun.

[Daengbo]

I've noticed that when I'm on the wife Windows XP I start to do someting, and have to stop myself because the software isn't in there.
Just a tip... When you're on your wife, it should be the hardware that's in there. Maybe you should try more foreplay, but don't worry, it happens to us all!

You know why he doesn't like Gnome?

[Quelain]

Nicholas Petreley is a raving loony creationist [petreley.com].

Of course he's not going to like anything involving Evolution. Or bonobos, or any other s^hXimian.

There's only room for one LAME ...

[JMZorko]

... and this [sourceforge.net] is it. How dare they proclaim GNOME as LAME, when GNOME clearly isn't *smile*.

This reminds me of something that happened at my last job. We were using LAME to encode MP3 frame headers so we could then stream them along to our super-funky P2P-erm, "bandwidth harvesting" system. When one of the marketing people asked us for some details about the tools we used, we said "Well, the MP3 encoder we use is LAME." "What?" he inquired. "Yes, we use the LAME MP3 encoder," we repeated. He said, "Well, couldn't you find a better one?" We explained it to him. He became flustered, saying "no customer is going to want to purchase our product if we use that! You guys need to find some Really Cool MP3 Encoder (RCME) or something, and quick!" We laughed. And laughed. And laughed :-)

Regards,

John

GFlame you!

[daemonc]

No, KFlame you!!!

GFlame!!!

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I quit reading Slashdot...

Re:stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid!!!

[kingkade]

This stupid squabbling is pointless. Articles like this shouldn't even be published by a supposedly newsworthy organisation.

That's why it's here on Slashdot.

Re:About the file selector

[Bodrius]

Yup.

I also enjoy having to cancel my "Save document" action because, having realized that it would be a good idea to put the massively important document in a new subdirectory, I can't create it on the spot.

Opening the file manager to crawl my way back to where I was in order to create an empty directory, then switching back to my application to save the document, is challenging and fulfilling, giving me an opportunity to excercise my technical skills and empower myself.

It's even better when I realize I have an old version of the file that I cannot rename to ".old", ".backup", etc. and I'm forced to give a new name to the new version of the document, then tell everyone about the new name or going back to the filemanager to fix it.

Yup, no file manipulation on the file selector is best. I love it. It's fun.