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GNOME Settings Area Getting a Refurbishment (gnome.org)

Posted by Soulskill on from the give-me-all-the-options dept.

jones_supa writes: Allan Day has written a blog post today about some of the improvements that are being worked on for GNOME's settings area. The new GNOME Settings area is working toward a model that uses a list sidebar for navigation. The window is now resizable, and overall should be a nice upgrade. The new GNOME settings area certainly bears some resemblance to the Windows 10 settings app. Work is also ongoing specifically around improving GNOME's network settings, redesigned sound settings, experiments around improved display support, and various other enhancements to GNOME's settings area. For now, this work is considered experimental and all may not be completed in time for the GNOME 3.20 release in March.

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  1. For fuck's sake. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Just buy Windows 10 already. By the time Gnome gets close the same usability, we'll have Windows 13. Stop cutting off your nose to spite your face.

  2. Gnome devs - how to improve Gnome by Viol8 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Try listening to your users instead of implementing whatever eye candy and widgets you dreamt up after the 5th pint and 2 shots the night before. Just a thought.

    1. Re: Gnome devs - how to improve Gnome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Henry Ford consistently gave his customers something useful, even if they didn't initially know that they wanted it.

      The GNOME 3 devs consistently give their users something terrible, even after the users clearly explain that they hate it and don't want it.

  3. Resizable windows by Dragonslicer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The window is now resizable

    When this is listed as a new feature of an application, I think you might be a couple decades behind the state of the art.