everybody talks about win98/xp nostalgia and old mac nostalgia, but where's all the nostalgia for old Clearlooks-ish GNOME 2/XFCE 4.2/KDE 3
I only have nostalgia for Enlightenment E17 with the theme where every single thing was made of brushed metal
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in reply to @flurry's post:
the nostalgia for gnome 2 mostly manifests as people being angry about gnome 3
I agree, although I feel in GNOME's case there's a bit of "you fucked up a perfectly good GNOME is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety" in there. imo XFCE and KDE have only gotten better with time,[citation needed] and while they're nowhere near perfect (looking at you, kde services) they're still pretty customizable and more user-friendly. Meanwhile, GNOME 3 feels frustratingly rigid and yet glitchy in some of the weirdest ways.
Not to say GNOME 2 was perfect, but it at least felt like it had some character
gnome 2 was so fucking good in just like. the way you could resize icons on the desktop, the various gnome-panel plugin shenanigans you could get up to, the happy medium of "not overcomplicated but not overwhelming" that it found where it was, you know, actually useful...
now gnome's role is just "that erosive force on the gtk app ecosystem that's gradually making xfce worse"
you know it's bad when your rewrite to fix the problems with your ecosystem becomes the problems with your ecosystem
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