Re: Are these "troubles" due to RedHat 8 or Gnome 2 ?

[Geoffrey <esoteric 3times25 net>]

George Farris wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 07:54, Geoffrey wrote:
>
> > Alan wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:01:31AM -0500, Paul E Johnson wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > I installed RH8 on a clean system and have some troubles. I have some 
> > > > config problems.  If these are due to the much discussed RedHat 
> > > > "improvements" and "simplifications", please let me know and I'll get 
> > > > Gnome some other way.
> > > >
> > > > 1. How do you choose a Window Manager? That choice is gone from the 
> > > > config setup.
> > >
> > >
> > > No normal user would ever want to do this, so there is no config option.
> >
> > That is absolute crap.  Windows users change there desktop appearance 
> > all the time.  The more sophisticated Linux user wants more control not 
> > less.  There's nothing wrong with providing such functionality, even for 
> > the less techincally oriented.
>
>
> Yes you are right here but you forgot to mention that the more
> sophisticated user would understand a simple procedure of killing one
> process, for example (metacity) and starting another (sawfish) and so, 
> doesn't require the option to be available in a preference window.

Although I'm perfectly capable of command line solutions (vi rules), 
that's not a reasonable expectation.  You just don't remove 
functionality and call it better.

> This is a somewhat basic understanding of Linux/UNIX you are talking
> about here.  In a round about way this will force the user wanting more
> changes to actually learn more.

Forced learning sucks.  Understand, I've been doing the linux thing 
since around 1994, so I've been through the learning curve, and I 
believe in continued education.  I can still remember marveling at the 
site of a login prompt on a 486...

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