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GNOME 3.14 Released

Posted by samzenpus on from the brand-new dept.

An anonymous reader writes "GNOME 3.14 was released today and it includes some interesting changes such as re-worked default theme, multi-touch gestures for both the system and applications, and new animations. Information including details on all the new features can be found here."

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  1. Useless Elements and Padding. by enter+to+exit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's still an inordinate amount of padding on everything. It maks my screen feel like 800x600.

    On top of that, gnome have an activity bar and each application a window decoration bar and then a menu bar. When running a maximized program, the bars are placed directly under each other and good chunk of the upper screen is wasted.

    The activity bar still does nothing and the window decoration bar typically has a single close button. It's a gigantic waste of space.

    1. Re:Useless Elements and Padding. by RightwingNutjob · · Score: 3, Insightful

      How about the status bar in nautilus replaced by a popover text bar like in Firefox that makes it impossible to read both the name and modification time of the bottom-most file in list view by default? Whole thing must have been designed by blind monkeys.

    2. Re:Useless Elements and Padding. by Undead+Waffle · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Or the fact that the nautilus window doesn't have a minimize button. Because who minimizes things?

    3. Re:Useless Elements and Padding. by POPE+Mad+Mitch · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Because -clutter-. I never maximise any windows, thats such a huge waste of screen space, even on a smaller laptop screen i still have some shells open in the background with logs and chat sessions etc in them. the main working window takes maybe 70% of the screen, and everything not in use right now, like email clients, browser, etc are minimised so they dont produce visual clutter.

    4. Re:Useless Elements and Padding. by strikethree · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Minimizing in GNOME would be useless. Have you even looked at the ideas behind it?

      I am sure the ideas behind it are absolutely awesome. All I can say is, "Thank you for determining my workflow for me. I had no idea at all that I was doing everything all wrong. I will immediately begin unlearning all of the habits that I have learned over the decades so that I can become slightly more efficient according to someone elses metrics. I am VERY VERY glad that there is no way to alter the workflow because then I might be tempted to stay with my old bad habits while the rest of the world moved on without me! I am sure they would all miss me... so again, thank you."

      I just don't know what I would do without Microsoft, Gnome, and Apple all forcing me to change my workflow and habits to be better. God. Can you imagine that a looooong loooooong time ago we were all actually forced to use terminals? No GUI at all! I just wished they would make it impossible to use terminals at all anymore so we would never be bothered by such garbage again. I guess Gnome is not as awesome as they thought they were since it is still (technically) possible to fire up a terminal and start, EGAD!, typing. What an archaic concept.

      Speaking of which, why doesn't Slashdot just make us record what we want to say and when you go through the comments, you listen to them instead of read them. Reading is so archaic. I am unsure why anyone does it anymore. It is certainly not useful to ME.

      --
      "Someone needs to talk to the tree of liberty about its ghoulish drinking problem." by ohnocitizen
  2. Re:Commands lines by rasmusbr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What about SUPER t, e, r, ENTER?

  3. Re:Commands lines by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    4 keys too many

    ctrl alt t

  4. Re:oh yeah, GNOME3 by Art+Challenor · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's optimized for viewing Slashdot Beta (between the two interfaces you get about 3 words per page).

  5. The list of features is quite telling... by ponos · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The Gnome environment has a direction. One that does not interest me. Things like "multitouch" are clearly not important to me, but all three users using Gnome on their tablets might care. I am even more surprised to see the new "Weather app" up in the list of exciting new features. The hours I spend daily looking at the weather forecast will now be much more pleasurable.

    Anyway, I really want to like Gnome but don't see anything that matters to me. Linux Mint and the Cinnamon environment seem more suited to my needs and, I suspect, to the needs of the "typical" linux user. In a parallel universe where Apple fans decide to use Linux, Gnome will be there for them.