GNOME Settings Area Getting a Refurbishment (gnome.org)

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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systemd is a bigger problem than GNOME 3.

[Anonymous Coward]

A couple of years ago, I thought it was GNOME 3 and Unity that would be most responsible for retarding the adoption of GNU/Linux on the desktop. Both are, in my opinion, fucking awful to use. I find them extraordinarily inefficient to use, I find that they look like shit, and their UIs are completely unintuitive. No normal user would want to use them, and no poweruser would want to use them either.

But then systemd was installed on my Debian GNU/Linux desktop, and GNOME 3 because the least of my problems. All of a sudden the desktop doesn't matter when the computer doesn't boot properly. I quickly became more concerned with getting access to the boot lots, which are now stored in some godawful binary format.

Long story short, I don't use Linux any longer. I now use FreeBSD, which does not come with systemd, and does not come with GNOME 3 by default. I couldn't be happier! My desktop boots properly each and every time, I can still use pretty much all of the good (that is, non-GNOME 3) software that I want to use, and I can use good desktop environments like XFCE and KDE.