Dissociated Press

Well, after trying GNOME 2.6 (actually 2.5.92, but why quibble) for more than a week, I finally had to go back to XFce. Though I found a lot to like about GNOME 2.6, I simply cannot stand Metacity — specifically, I can’t stand the lack of wirebox window dragging/resize. Yeah, I know — it’s a tiny feature, but I simply hate the opaque window dragging that much.

I wish the GNOME/Metacity folks all the luck in the world, but until they come to grips with the reality that some users actually like having preferences, I think I’ll stick with a window manager/desktop enviroment that actually implements some standard features that longtime users expect.

After reading through the discussions about the opaque resize vs. wireframe resize while trying to find a way to enable wireframe dragging, I kept getting more and more pissed off because of the attitude of the developers which seemed to boil down to “you don’t really need this feature, because we tell you so. So stop asking.”