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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. 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.

    2. Re:Gnome devs - how to improve Gnome by Pseudonymous+Powers · · Score: 4, Funny

      If you ask your users what they want, you'll deliver just that, not what they're going to want when the next release is delivered.

      Hear, hear! Look, listening to users is a obviously a dead end. Users, selfish as they are, only care about usability. I mean, just imagine: If UI designers listened to users, there would have been no Windows 8! That means there'd be no tiles, active or otherwise. We'd all still be putzing around with old-fashioned desktops like a bunch of putzes. That, in turn, means that users might be able to feasbily use more than one program at a time! Shudder!

      In Gnome, there would be no hot corners and no overview. There would still be minimize and maximize buttons on the windows, and they might even be on the right side of the title bar. For God's sake, the taskbar might still be on the bottom of the screen! Heavens preserve us!

      So count your blessings. If not for the selfless charity of our modern rockstar UX gurus, gracing our poor selves with their genius innovations, we'd be living in a veritable Stone Age where the applications running on on operating system were actually considered more important than the OS itself.

  2. 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.