Gnome is a great desktop environment. But it’s not perfect. If I could pick five things for the Gnome developers to change or improve, here’s what they’d be.
Before I criticize Gnome, however, let me emphasize how much I like it. I’ve been through half-a-dozen desktop environments in numerous Linux distributions, and have settled on Gnome as the best of all of them. KDE is too unstable, XFCE’s missing features aren’t worth the minimal resource savings, and Fluxbox is only fun if you like editing text files in order to turn your GUI on. For me, Gnome isn’t perfect, but it’s better than the alternatives.
I should also clarify that this article discusses Gnome is its broadest sense, as both a graphical interface and a collection of applications and utilities for managing the system–so any software that falls under the auspices of the Gnome project is fair game for criticism.
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http://www.workswithu.com/2009/08/25/five-things-i-dislike-about-gnome/