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GNOME 3.16 Released
kthreadd writes Version 3.16 of GNOME, the primary desktop environment for GNU/Linux operating systems has been released. Some major new features in this release include a overhauled notification system, an updated design of the calendar drop down and support for overlay scrollbars. Also, the grid view in Files has been improved with bigger thumbnail icons, making the appearance more attractive and the rows easier to read. A video is available which demonstrates the new version.
So there we have it, the foot bothers you ;)
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Couldn't you have just said, "The foot bothers me?"
Jeremy
People are using the API's. Much of the improvements to Gtk+ and GNOME for version 2 involve making the platform and desktop accessible to more users. This includes better internationalization and rendering of text, accessibility (a major project being headed up by Sun Microsystems). This has been a very important emphasis of this release. Other improvement in the configuration system, component model, etc. allow developers to write more powerful applications quicker. And these are being used.
Making the GUI easier for first-time Linux users, which was the whole point of GNOME in the first place, wasnt it?
This has been a major focus of the GNOME Project for GNOME 2 and beyond. Check out the GNOME Usability Project and the GNOME Usability mailing list.
Celebrate the finer things in life
Dispite desparate attempts of the linux user base to move to alternatives and avoid wholesale changes to the linux userspace, distribution leadership and paid developers continue their push toward 'unification and control'.
When gnomish developers develop on macs to produce a desktop centric operating system in the hope of capturing the windows/mac market, where mac users are happy with macs, windows users are happy using windows and all the linux users go anywhere else the question becomes 'who is going to use it?'
"the primary desktop environment for GNU/Linux operating systems"
Well, well, aren't we full of ourselves...
I used to hate GNOME 3!
I tried out 3.14, and I have to say, it has gotten a lot better.
Also you can install GNOME shell extensions, to get it more in line with the classic GNOME 2. :)
Also you need get a new shell theme. But its possibly to get GNOME 3 pretty nice.
Why bother. Gnome developers have been on the path of removing, not adding functionality since they started version 2. Why would you expect them to accept a patch that adds a good feature?
And it was a bad idea when OS X did it, and it's still a bad idea. I hope they can be disabled (this is actually a GTK thing, not a Gnome thing). I can see how this is useful on a very small screen with a finger as the pointer. But not a mouse on a desktop. We've really gone backwards in usability on computer desktops generally in the last 5 years. Perhaps this coincides with the rise of the "user experience" field of thought, rather than focusing on intuitive "user interfaces."
Yeah, but Gnome 2 was usable. Gnome 3 switched me to Cinnamon.
The scrollbars on Gnome are so obnoxious now. You have to mouse over a tiny 2 pixel strip to get them to appear, then super precisely move your mouse to get to the part where you can interact with it, and one pixel off causes it to disappear and make you hunt for the invisible 2 pixel strip again. I'm sure they're great if you're on a tablet and just mashing your thumb in the general vicinity of the scrollbar, but for mouse users they're just outright terrible and enabled by default. If you have a distro like Ubuntu it's fairly hard to enable sane scrollbars again too, you have to know what esoteric package to install to fix the behavior, it's not installed by default.
I read the internet for the articles.
The GNU project has two desktop environments: GNUstep and GNOME. Of the two, GNOME is the primary one.
For the history: in the late 90s, the KDE desktop was getting popular but it required people to install non-free Qt libraries. Two GNU projects were launched to counter this problem. One was Harmony, which aimed to be a Qt replacement, to allow KDE be run without installing non-free software. The other was GNOME.
Years later, when GNOME was successful, the Qt libraries were released as free software.
There was a third GNU project which aimed to make a graphical desktop, but they decided to first focus on a Scheme scripting engine. This effort produced GNU Guile, but no graphical desktop got made.
I think there was even a fourth project, but I can't think of it right now.
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My problem is having anything written by a bunch of hacks who don't understand proper engineering principles, unix philosphy, and systems administration. They are dangerous, their code is dangerous. Already in my testing all manner of issues and problems and lack of ability to troubleshoot has been discovered with that bloated pile of rubbish that is systemd. I've decades of experience in systems admin, systems programming; from various mainframe and supercomputer OS to OS/2 and Unix and VMS. Systemd is by far the worst of the lot for a boot and daemon management system.