Surely choice is good? I fail to see a single use for comments that dismiss the right of optionality for others.
(Personally, I do leave my XFCE4 desktop on default settings, but I do alter defaults in some packages)
The person in the link commenting "PUT IT BACK EVERY OTHER TERMINAL EMULATOR HAS IT" is more baffling.
Both wanting choice and options, but at the same time not wanting to have to change when there are other options.
Gnome Terminal may (effectively) be the only terminal emulator available to you if you do not have rights to install software or to change default software.
Then yes, they should.
If the boss gives you lemons, you don't go to the lemon tree and ask if it can make lemons that read email, browse NFS shares and change screensaver settings. You go to your boss and say "just-lemons isn't good enough".
However, "choice is poison" is a rather extreme over-compensation for this problem. Sometimes, options really do provide value. And many times, if they are designed correctly, they don't substantially increase cost; if the features are orthogonal and implemented independently, the additional complexity is only linear with the number of features, not quadratic or worse as happens if they are too interrelated.
I understand that we want to get away from the "you need to spend hours customizing your environment to make it usable" approach to design that plagues some open source project, but going to the other extreme and saying that "choice is poison" is just as bad.
I'd rather have something that was well thought through and is internally consistant than a grab-bag of customisation, none of which coexists well - like most linux desktops.
That's should always be second to providing solutions. Solve the problems that transparency solved first. If you aren't aware of the problems that transparency in terminals provided, then removing it is purely an act of ignorance.
1) Have you searched the literature on perceptual defects and enablement? If so I'd love to see references.
2) Have you consulted widely on mailing lists that Gnome Terminal users use and checked use cases? If so, can you link to those? I'd like to see them.
> How can I use a full screen terminal window and still read documentation in that same screen?
I've asked this question. I've yet to see a reply.
If your documentation isn't viewable in terminal, why do you insist of having a full screen all the time - resize your terminal? If you do insist of having a full screen all the time, why are you using gnome-terminal at all?
> why do you insist of having a full screen all the time
Because I'm actively working in my terminal. Why should I waste space moving something somewhere else, especially away from where I'm looking?
> resize your terminal?
Maybe you like limiting the size of your workspace, but I don't.
> If you do insist of having a full screen all the time,
Because I'm not always in the terminal, but when I'm in the terminal, I don't see a reason to limit the space it uses.
Anyways, not you are being willfully ignorant. Rather than try and understand the problem, and how transparency was being used, you are being dismissive. You aren't trying to help in the least.
So, unless you want to take the time to understand the problem, why waste your time, and others, adding a comment that is essentially worthless?
Um, do they know their market? I doubt grandma is clammoring for transparency in her terminal windows but she's not the primary user profile for Gnome, you know?