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GNOME To Start Using Codenames
prisoninmate writes: A discussion between GNOME developers and users during the annual GUADEC conference lead to potential code names for the desktop environment, starting with the upcoming September release, GNOME 3.18, which might be dubbed Gothenburg. They decided to codename the September releases after the city where the GUADEC conference took place, as explained above, and the March releases after the city where the GNOME.Asia Summit will take place.
So glad they sorted out all the other issues and devoted time to what really matters.
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Switching to codenames seems unnecessary. Version 3 was completely unrecognizable as Gnome already.
It could have been worse. Fedora 19 was the "Schrödinger's Cat" release, and it broke number of software installation tools . Many old scripts in bash, ruby, or perl would read "/etc/issue.net" or "/etc/fedora-release", and now had to parse the Unicode content with a single quote and two text words embedded in the text. For many old, simply written shell scripts, in particular, it broke them _very_ badly.
For many of us, Fedora 19 was known as the "Bobby Tables" release. ( https://xkcd.com/327/ )
...and easy to understand. Obviously they have no place in GNOME.
Sabbotaged, Cantshutdown, Removefunctionality, Singlepanefile, Cinnamonh8tr, Activiteslongword, Formoverfunction, Lostourway.
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But then the software that broke was obviously broken, so this was a good test to catch them and fix them.
Holy fuck... Does anyone actually use Gnome 3, or is it just a playground for a bunch of people who wish they weren't born after all of the good GUI concepts had been discovered and want to move ahead as if there are still better GUI concepts to be discovered and we all just need to get used to them?
I mean, the original goal was "come up with GUI widgets that are intuitive enough that you don't have to teach people how to use them." However, we've already done that, so they seem to have chosen a different goal, namely "come up with GUI widgets that everyone would agree are better if only they'd take the time to learn how to use them and also forget about all of those things that make using a computer easier that we haven't bothered to implement an alternative for as we don't do those things ourselves."
I feel handicapped enough when I'm forced to use Windows, as the lack of (a useful implementation of) virtual desktops drives me insane when I try to do anything of moderate complexity, and even when I'm doing simpler things I'm annoyed by the task bar now having just icons and no window titles, and having to click the program's icon, then select which window of that program I want. (Undoubtedly that's done to deal with the lack of virtual desktops requiring so many windows to be displayed on the task bar, and indeed, none of the third-party virtual desktops available for Windows bother to limit the windows shown on each virtual desktop's task bar to only the windows that are open on that virtual desktop.) If I were ever forced to use Gnome 3, however, I'd probably just switch to using Windows, since even though it's a pain in the ass, it's still possible to do things with it.
Honestly, I think KDE 4, Gnome 3, and Pottering are all just plots by Microsoft to ensure that Linux never wins the OS war. I mean, everyone hates Pottering, so how is he able to affect the Linux ecosystem so much? Obviously he has a publicity team working for him, telling him where he needs to be, what he needs to say, and writing piles of just-good-enough code for him, such that he is able to inflict maximum damage to the Linux ecosystem.