Re: [tlug] GNOME sucks and nautilus is a PITA

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Neil Millar writes:
 > On 14 December 2010 12:15, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:
 > > Speaking of which, why does fscking nautilus (useful with Dropbox,
 > > otherwise sucks as hard as MS Explorer) insist on changing my root
 > > window background?
 > 
 > Because you don't run it with --no-desktop?

I don't run it at all.  /path/to/dropbox-daemon does.

 > Or was that not the question? :)

If I have to, I'll recompile said daemon until it says uncle (or maybe
something with one fewer letters).  So, yes, you have answered my main
question (how to anesthetize my PITA).

But ScottR answered the question, as a gloss on the one I proposed
above: GNOME sucks, and hates knowledgable users.  "Yuttori desktop",
anyone?

I really would like to know why that !@example.com in Cambridge who is
generally to be found at the end of a long delay line allows GNOME to
use the initial "G".  As ScottR points out, GNOME (and to a great
extent, all of f-d.o) is the antithesis of the ideals of GNU and free
software, despite the license.