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GNOME 3.6 Released
kthreadd writes "Gnome 3.6 is out. The announcement reads: 'The GNOME Project is proud to present GNOME 3.6, the third update to the 3.x series. This latest version of GNOME 3 includes a number of new features and enhancements, as well as many bug fixes and minor improvements. Together, they represent a significant upgrade to the GNOME 3 user experience.' Andreas Nilsson, President of the GNOME Foundation, said: 'The GNOME Foundation is proud to present this latest GNOME release, and I would like to congratulate the GNOME community on its achievement.' He described the release as 'an important milestone in our mission to bring a free and open computing environment to everyone.' New applications include Clocks and Boxes. Clocks is a world time clock, which allows you to keep an eye on what the local time is around the world. Boxes allows you to connect to other machines, either virtual or remote. For developers there's the new GtkLevelBar widget in GTK+, and GtkEntry can now use Pango attributes."
It still sucks. Stick with MATE.
Same thing when you are forced on OSX. Seriously, KDE has the best window manager bar none. How no one has gone postal on the MS and apple folks responsible for that part of their respective interfaces s a mystery to me.
they would not have that problem if they did not release a totally broken chunk of shit in the first place
"Personally, I'm looking forward to checking out the new GNOME."
I seriously have better things to do tonight than install a slightly less broken DM with better accessibility features touted as one of its two bragging points.
Oh, sorry. I didn't realise you enjoy wasting time manually configuring such basic system services.
I'm pretty sure that Gnome Shell isn't designed to work on a touchscreen. Hot corners are useless on a touchscreen, but Gnome Shell makes use of hot corners, so it's pretty obvious that it was designed first and foremost as a mouse-based UI.
They have done a few things to ensure that touchscreens aren't broken (e.g. the big icons), but the keyboard and mouse are obviously the primary input devices.
The whole "Gnome sucks because it is a desktop environment but was designed for a touchscreen" thing is a complete strawman argument.
Because sometimes people cannot be bothered, wasting so much time and energy, tweaking and fiddling with things they would rather 'just worked' . I know Linux pretty well but I actually can't be bothered with trivial desktop shit - I'd rather that stuff just worked out of the box. It's not that I can't - I just can't be bothered..
Modal dialogs are indeed "forced on people"; anytime an eclipse modal dialog pops up (popped as I am on lxde now), I couldn't move it away to see what I needed to see on the main window, it was "glued", cut&paste out of question. I could fix the missing focus-on-hover installing a tweak plugin; but to fix this one, it was not enough you need to launch gconftool, which obviously is something I could cope with, but it's out of question for the average user. It's indeed one of most broken design decisions I have ever seen in my life.
The thing is, there's broken by bugs, and then there's broken by design. Gnome3 is so broken by design that I've never even noticed any bugs. And the designers don't appear to have noticed that it's broken by design, so there's no way they'll fix the bugs.
Yes, the same thing happened with the KDE3->KDE4 upgrade, which is why I even *care* about the fate of Gnome. And KDE4 is still broken by design. Not as badly broken as Gnome3, but it "broken by design" bugs don't tend to get fixed, because the implementers can't see the problems. I see no indication that the Gnome crew is any different. They've even promised to remove the capability of making the changes that various people have implemented to make the system usable. ("Tweaks", etc.)
I sometimes suspect that both the KDE and the Gnome designers are in the pay of Microsoft, but I *trust* that's mere paranoia. It's too much like normal human behavior to need that kind of an explanation.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.