Love/Hate Relationship with GNOME
I really like the user interfaces of GNOME applications and the GNOME desktop as a whole. Way more than KDE. Back when I used KDE with frequency, one of my major gripes was that the functionality was all there, but yet the UI felt so clunky. With GNOME things are much simpler, easier, more Zen-like.
Until you try to build applications from source, that is. And then, GNOME gets really really un-fun. I've been attempting to build Evolution 1.4 so I can sync my Pocket PC's appointments and contacts with it (Evolution 2 isn't fully supported by MultiSync yet). In addition to requiring a multitude of little piddly libraries which must be individually obtained, built, and installed, configure doesn't even pick up the libraries on my system correctly. I've got to create a special "jail" and symlink only the libraries I want there, so that Evolution's world view includes the correct assortment of libs it needs to build. Sheesh.
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