xfce version 3 vs. 4 : missing features?

[hugh d fegely]

Gotta go with David here. "Standards" -- isn't that what the "Microsoft" desktop is, basically -- a standard? One that I (and I'm sure MANY like me) came to use Linux for.. their "standard" was too limiting, and we WANTED the configurability.

If I want all my Icons to be Smiley Faces instead of whatever "canned" default is given to me by the program/desktop/operating system, then I should be able to do it..

Since the requests from before seem to have fallen to the wayside due to "standards compliance" regarding the configurability of icons in the icon box, and there are still people who miss at least some of the old XFce3 functionality with the minimized icons on the desktop, then once again I have to ask "why not include a little more USER REQUESTED functionality" to our desktop environment?

Standards? Bah... standards are rules, and they're meant to be broken ;)


"David F. Skoll" <dfs at roaringpenguin.com> had stated the obvious on Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:30:15 -0400 (EDT) when they said:

> On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Biju Chacko wrote:
> 
> > Well read http://www.ometer.com/free-software-ui.html to find out why
> > over-configurability is a Bad Thing(TM).
> 
> No; that's just one person's opinion as to why it's a Bad Thing(tm).
> 
> If anyone on this list can tell me how I can bind a key to raise/lower
> a window, I'll be quiet. :-)  I can learn to live with or work around
> the taskbar.
> 
> You must understand that for many people, their desktop is an
> extremely important component of their productivity.  Removing
> features that *you think* are:
> 
> > * Non-compliant with standards
> 
> [standards?  Who cares about standards?  I like my desktop the way *I*
> like it.]
> 
> or
> 
> > * No longer useful
> 
> [says who?]
> 
> is likely to provoke unhappiness.  Just think about how you'd feel if someone
> forced you to switch from emacs to vi (or vice-versa.) :-)
> 
> --
> David.
> 
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