Hoary Bootsplash

[Niran Babalola]

This thread is painful to read. You're using a development version of
software, and you're complaining that you had to go to the command
line to fix something that to the best of my knowledge wasn't an
intended change. The thing about using open source software is you
can't go up to the developers and demand that something be done the
way you want it. You didn't pay anyone for the software. Be glad. If
you think something should change, at least be civil about it. Calling
people elitists is a bad idea when you're trying to get them to do you
a favor. Chill out.

> I totally take your point about making GNU/Linux easier to use. I made
> the point about eye candy because someone else raised it. But you are
> right, having to faff about editing config files, installing libdvdcss,
> etc... etc... just to get a system that does what I want is a pain.
> 
> I think this comes from the same dynamic as the look and feel debate.
> That is, there is a bit of a whiff of elitism in the people who develop
> GNU/Linux, for them GUI's are for wimps. Yeah, I know about the complex
> nature of GNU/Linux makes it -very- hard to make all the configuration
> via GUI or 'wizards'. But, while this is in part true, the sort of
> things that most people want, MP3, Java, Flash, DVD, Home Networks,
> etc... etc.. -can- be done via GUI. A good example is changing the
> horrid mouse pointer in Hoary, it can be done, I've done it. But I had
> to get down and dirty with the terminal to do it. Is a 'pointer theme'
> that hard to code??.
> 
> Baza
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