Of Linus, KDE, and mouse buttons

[JoeHill]

Evan Leibovitch wrote: 

> At the last NewTLUG meeting someone mentioned the frustration of not
> being able to map the middle mouse under GNOME. The first reply was "why
> would you want to do that"?
> 
> The attitude behind such replies seem to be at the heart of Linus
> Torvalds' traditional dislike of GNOME and preference for KDE,
> re-articulated recently (and actually using the mouse issue as an example!):
> 
> http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8745257437.html
> 
> Interesting reading.

Annoying reading. Like with so many other issues, a lot of people just love to
pretend that everything comes down to a choice between two things. Perhaps they
are easily confused? Dunno.

Personally, I think Torvalds is missing the point completely. Apparently he
believes that, like him, every single Linux user wants to install one desktop
environment and be done with it. That one desktop environment should just give
him everything he wants. Great, but unfortunately then you end up with...KDE,
the most ridiculous and bloated crap imagineable.

Does Gnome _Desktop_ suck? Oh yeah, and there he's right on the money. I use
Gnome at work and it drives me completely crazy. The configuration options for
the WM are pathetic.

Does that mean I would use KDE instead? Rather die, thanks. Using the KDE file
selection dialogue is less fun than stepping on a nail. Last time I checked,
they still had not figured out the concept of 'drag and drop'.

There is a very good reason why most applications are developed using GTK, and
now more and more PyGTK. The same reason that the best desktop environment
there is, XFCE4, uses Gnome libraries and applications: they work really really
well and are easy to use.

-- 
JoeHill
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