Time to look at the Linux GUI?
Graphical interfaces have come a long way since the fertile minds at Palo Alto came up with a way to make the nowadays plague proportions of plastic rodents useful. While GUI's look very pretty and are so full of eye candy I am surprised that our eyeballs don't have cavities, the current GUI's seem to be lacking in user efficiency.
There are standards in place for Linux with the aim of allowing these different GUI styles to reliably interact with each other but that doesn't resolve the different internal standards or Human Interface Guidelines which different window manager/desktop environments use.
What this means for people new to Linux is that they are more often than not, confused on where to find functionality they require. Heck, even those heavily involved in Linux like me get confused. Not that it is hard to confuse me.
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Confusing text, confused point
It's a bit hard to get the author's point, but it seems like he would like a common GUI-standard for Linux. His problem is that different applications has different GUIs and are created for altogether different desktop enviroments.
The point is confused, because seriously it is not the application developers job to fit every possible GUI, or adhere to one common way of doing things. This is why we have distributions. A mainstream-oriented distribution should (like Ubuntu) should try to make the GUI for it's included applications adhere to some common standards, not the developers of the applications. Of course it will be impossible to try to make the application adhere to a standard without the developers, but if you prefer KDE, why should you develop a version for Gnome? Because Ubuntu asks you to? Well, it would be much easier if they help you out then.
Screw him...
Choice is good. This isn't Apple or Microsoft where you have to accept what they offer. If someone doesn't like something in Open Source, they can start a new project at anytime to supplant or fork. I like choice. I choose KDE, but others can choose Gnome, XFCE, LXDE, or whatever. I don't hate Gnome, but if it was all I had, I'd be using a Mac. I'm sure there are Gnome fans that shudder at the thought of being forced to use KDE, as well.