Gnome Extension Offers a Shopping Lens We Can Live With

sfcrazy writes "The year 2012 has not been very good for Canonical and Ubuntu. The end of the year saw harsh criticism of Ubuntu from bodies like EFF and FSF which accused the operating system of 'data leak,' 'privacy invasion' and adding 'spyware' features. Now, Gnome Shell is also getting online shopping lens. Alan Bell has created a Gnome Shell extension which allows a user to conduct online shopping search right from Gnome's Dash. You can install the extension from this link. Once installed you can start searching for online shopping by hitting 'super' key and then enter your search term. One of the greatest differences between the implementations is who is in control. Gnome's Shopping lens shows how it should have been done in the first place, as it puts the user in control, and not the company whose OS you are using. Bell has explained it very well on his blog."

Comments

Re:Some problems don't need solving

[Anonymous Coward]

Gnome 3.8 is becoming a security nightmare similar XP before sp1. It looks nice, yet turning my desktop into a browser will not be tolerated. I'll have to find some other window manager that's not based on GTK.

Re:Some problems don't need solving

[Anonymous Coward]

Is that you, Linus?

Re:Some problems don't need solving

[binarylarry]

Shut the fuck up Mauro

Re:Some problems don't need solving

[jellomizer]

How horrible!

Imagine working 8-12 hours a day on average, grunting threw the boring parts, having some of what you thought was good ideas just be turned down by end users, working around system limitations. Then you have the audacity to want to make some money for it.

People tend to have problems separating all their political issues. Open Source isn't Anti-Capitalism, even though some of its biggest voices are, that doesn't make Open Source Anti-Capitalism. However these people have a hard time separating their two beliefs and work to stop every workaround to make money off of GNU with the exception of Consulting/Support Services and Distribution.

There are a lot of good product ideas however the developers will have a near impossible mission to get the funding to work on it the time they need. Because the product may to so easy to use that Consulting/Support will not get any business, as well Distribution not so much because it is too easy to quickly repackage the product an other way.

So these people either add some advertising means to bring in some revenue, Offer a Time Sharing service, wait that is two old they host the solution, err um Software as a Service (SaaS), oh wait it is now call Cloud Computing.

We look at a small handful of Big Projects, and how successful they are in open source however there is a slue of failed projects not due to improper skills or interest, but they just cannot sustain the work that is is needed.