On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 20:08:35 +0000, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

> Anyway, I tried Google Chrome, but it *insists* that you have to "log
> in" to allow them to track your movements - er, I mean, synchronise your
> devices. Yeah, that. But more to the point, Hotmail became
> *catastrophically slow*. (I presume this is perfectly intentional.)

Chrome doesn't need you to login.  I know people who don't have gmail 
accounts even who use it, so obviously they don't have a password to even 
use.

> This seems to be a worrying trend. GNOME 2.x had a sea of configuration
> options. GNOME 3.x has almost *nothing*. In order to change anything,
> you have to install user-supplied "extensions". (Oh, did I mention?
> There's no documentation for how to write these extensions. You just
> have to read the source code. Because that's trivial...) It seems
> software producers have somehow got the idea that it's OK to produce a
> product with no configurability, and let a dozen different 3rd parties
> write a dozen mutually-incompatible "extensions" each of which solves a
> different 30% of the problem.

GNOME3 has plenty of configuration options, set using dconf-editor.

> Seriously, you managed to implement a standards-compliant rendering
> engine! That's nearly impossible!! How hard can it be to add a trivial
> GUI for editing the frigging settings?!

It isn't, because dconf-editor exists. ;)

Jim

-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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