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Everywhere you go, any building you enter, any OS you operate, any settings window you open, one rule remains set in stone, “THE ESCAPE DOOR”. Always give an exit path, a way to make it all go away, make it look like nothing happened. But Gnome seems to think otherwise. Any settings window you open, all you see is a “close” button.
I made a few changes and then tried to “undo” them by using the following methods:
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Pressing the “close” button.
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Pressing the little “x” on the upper right corner.
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Pressing the “Escape” key.
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Pressing “Alt+F4”.
But no dice. Every method leads to saving of changes. The same thing occurs with EVERY dialogue box you can find in Gnome. I hate to say that this is something Windows seems to have got right (Maybe their UI designers are better than their OS programmers). What’s even more surprising is that even cross-platform apps (e.g. Firefox) give the “Apply” and “Cancel” buttons in Windows but not in Linux.
I hope Gnome developers listen and patch this up, or if there is any “hidden” tricks up your sleeve that will allow me to “go back in time”, please do let me know.
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Quote of the day: Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. - Kierkegaard
July 7th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
I support Linux 100% but I feel that people should make an objective decision for themselves after reading The Truth about Linux.
July 7th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Kevin,This post is majorly about Gnome and not linux (though I’m guilty of slipping in the word linux in there on one occassion).Still, I agree that everyone should make an objective decision for oneself regarding linux, but the link that you have just given DOES NOT allow anyone to do that in any sense. It is all just a few statements written without a proof. (The proof link itself 404’s).I don’t even agree with most of the statements made there. Simply put, it is not the truth.However, that said, I do not say that linux is perfect and I do have my own gripes with linux. Take a look at http://tech.shantanugoel.com/2008/04/20/5-reasons-i-like-linux-and-5-why-i-dislike-it.html
July 13th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Great blog, subscribed to your rss feed. Thanks.
July 15th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
It’s a feature for me. No need to click ‘Apply’ after you change every setting when testing things.
July 15th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
kevin r., thank you for your contribution to the Troll Cave! http://vadi-blog.com/2008/07/15/the-troll-cave/
July 16th, 2008 at 9:50 am
@Vadim: Thnx for letting me know. Didn’t know there was a pattern behind this *promotion* of the “The truth about linux”. I guess all these guys are opening up these sites because of the excessive traffic they can get by getting fans from both sides flocking to the blog as well as newbies who would like to get some “facts” before they jump in….Hmm, now let me also think about something as controversial as this so that I can also jump on the bandwagon and make some quick ad money ;-). Any suggestions, anyone?
July 20th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Another thing about gnome/metacity is the missing right-click drag and copy/paste of files, this has to be the thing I miss most from windows