Nicholas Petreley Slams Gnome

FreeLinux writes "Mainstream computer rag ComputerWorld, has posted a review of Gnome 2.6 by Nicholas Petreley. This opinion piece review, titled Living Down to a Low Standard, positively lambastes Gnome 2.6 over the new spatial Nautilus and Gnome's design choices. The review is quite the opposite to a previously reported review from PCWorld, last month. While this latest review is bound to be a polarizing and heavily debated issue (read flamebait), it is important in that this review will be seen by so many mainstream readers and corporate types who may have been considering Gnome."

Vicious

[two_stripe]

Why doesnt he pick on someone his own size?
Those poor gnomes. :(

Don't RTFA!

[Anonymous Coward]

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Nicholas Petreley uses the tired term "paradigm shift" in his article!
[not that anyone will actually read the article...]

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(-1 Flamebait)

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes yes keep up the slashdotting to prevent the pointy hair types from reading it!

KDE Kollusion?

[Mars Ultor]

That's why everyone uses that K something or other right?

(just a joke don't shoot)

Frost Pirst

[kpansky]

"While this latest review is bound to be a polarizing and heavily debated issue (read flamebait)..."

And on that note...

KDE SuxXX0rz! GNOME 4Eva!!~!

Unbiased

[Embedded Geek]

Mainstream computer rag ComputerWorld...

I'm glad the author of the slashdot story managed to keep his biases concealed until the third word of the story. If the article had praised Gnome, however, why do I suspect we'd be hearing about "Esteemed technical journal ComputerWorld..."

Registry?

[Anonymous Coward]

I didn't know there was a registry in Linux...
This article is about as scarce on details as it can be while still managing to blast a piece of software into little pieces...the entire article is about Nautilus. One single "feature" in Nautilus. This isn't a review, it's nonesense.

Re:No big surprise

[Anonymous Coward]

If GNOME v. KDE flamewars are dead, then Netcraft has confirmed that BSD has been cremated.

Poetry (Freeform, of course...)

[Embedded Geek]

I am the Gnome.
Little tunnels where I live.
Pointy hat. Pointy hat.
Pointy hat hides my secrets.

Damn the garden spade!
Damn the garden spade!

(Nods to the applause of a dozen hipsters snapping their fingers)

Re:Unbiased

[Dielectric]

No, you wouldn't, because there really isn't an esteemed technical journal for mainstream computing. The IEEE puts out some good stuff, but no one outside of the engineering community reads it.

I go to the cockfights when I need to make a decision on this sort of thing. I label one chicken Choice A and the other chicken is Choice B, and that has pretty much worked for me. This explains why I'm using a C-64 right now. That was one tough chicken.

Re:Don't RTFA!

[eclectro]

Nicholas Petreley uses the tired term "paradigm shift" in his article!

So, it's safe to say that the paradigm shift was embedded in the article??

Re:and it's right

[stratjakt]

I am not going to swear here, but I am MAJORLY pissed at gnome

Where I come from, most people would consider "pissed" a swear in the context in which you used it.

Me, I could give a fuckin shit either way.

Re:Don't RTFA!

[Hrothgar The Great]

He should throw the word "meme" in there a few hundred times. He could be just like the commentary on Slashdot!

Re:Please...

[grub]

it would be a shame for this turn into a Gnome vs. KDE flamewar.

I use Windowmaker, you insensitive clod!

Reminds me of Bloom County...

[Embedded Geek]

Since we're talking about inflamatory journalism, I remember years ago a Bloom County cartoon where a politician calls up the editor of the local newspaper in a rage:

"Hello!? Bloom Beacon?! This is Senator Bedfellow! What's with this *@#! HEADLINE?"
"Headline?"
"Yes! There's no story ... just a headline!"
"Which headline?"
"THE *BIG* HEADLINE ON THE FRONT PAGE!"
"Read it to me, Senator."
"BEDFELLOW: THE SECRET LIFE OF A WIFE-SWAPPING ATHEIST"
"Oh, that's just a typo."

I'm glad to see that slashdot is holds itself to the same high standards of journalism.

Re:Vicious

[ThrasherTT]

Shouldn't your sig be:

Dont drink and derive. Alcohol and calculus dont integrate!

Onion Story

[Embedded Geek]

34 Congressmen Arrested In D.C. Cockfighting Crackdown [theonion.com]

Well, at least you're in good company. You pick a computer, they try to balance the budget. ("Get 'im Soybean Subsidies! Th' ayes! Th' ayes! Claw the ayes aught! Whooyah!! Lookee that! Aye tellya boys, they'rell be no raise for the Libraian of Congress this year.")

At long last!!

[TheLoneCabbage]

"It was deliberately designed to protect users who are invariably too incompetent to pick their own colors but are smart enough to memorize shift-clicks and keystrokes or edit the registry to get Nautilus to work the way they like."

We have achieved GUI parity with the MAC!!

Re:Don't RTFA!

[YU Nicks NE Way]

Yeah -- but that isn't half as scary as the fact that he used the word paradigm correctly is.

Gnome slamming?

[lightspawn]

Is that anything like dwarf tossing?

(Oh, I see, the subject should read GNOME in capitals. very misleading.)

Re:Vicious

[identity0]

Obviously, you've never been attacked by a pack of wild Gnomes...

The horror! The horror! They came at me from every direction! There were sidebars everywhere! Pastel-colered icons went flying! When they were through, I was left without my precious KControls or KApps...

...and then a horde of Ximian monkeys showed up...

Re:Don't panic... it's not that bad

[object88]

I didn't say destroy, I said toast.

And toast is good! I mean, nothing like warm, slightly crunchy sourdough or rye, with a little butter and apple-mint jelly. MMMmmm! Gimme toast!

You can browse files graphically in Gnome???!!!!!

[Lodragandraoidh]

Damn, and all this time I thought you just use it to open emacs and your terminal sessions.

As an aside, I wan't aware that Gnome had a 'registry' (a la Windoze?)...I always thought you could just edit flat files...another shock for my delicate constitution.

Re:Don't panic... it's not that bad

[Frothy Walrus]

They're not monkeys anymore. Novell bought Ximian and replaced all the monkeys with Mormons.

Re:Don't RTFA!

[llefler]

Nicholas Petreley uses the tired term "paradigm shift" in his article!

It could be worse, he could have used "wake-up call".

Re:Don't RTFA!

[SubtleNuance]

Its clear that Mr. Petreley is still thinking outside the box. In these days of Back To Basics strategies, its clear that focusing on the core fundementals of your enterprise' value propisition requires a shift, a shift to thinking Inside The Box.

Thinking OUTSIDE the box is last week's failed methods, all new leaders are clearly embedded Inside The Box(TM).

Tell your friends.

Re:Reply from one of the Ars Technica crew

[zarr]

So, Nautilus has three totally unintuitive ways to enable "normal" file browsing. Interesting...

Re:Don't panic... it's not that bad

[CoolVibe]

Mac fanatics are pussies. You haven't met a real fanatic until you've debated with an Amiga fanatic.