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GNOME 3.22 Desktop Environment Officially Released (softpedia.com)
Reader prisoninmate writes: Today, September 21, is a big day for Linux users, especially those who love the GNOME desktop environment, as the next major release is now officially available. Yes, that's right, we're talking about GNOME 3.22, dubbed Karlsruhe after the German host city of the annual GUADEC (GNOME Users And Developers European Conference) event, which took place last month between August 12-14, 2016. Prominent features of the GNOME 3.22 desktop environment include batch rename functionality and support for integration of compressed files built directly into the Nautilus file manager, a new Week View, support for alarms, and the ability to drag and drop events to the GNOME Calendar, as well as an updated GNOME Music app that supports handling of music libraries with thousands of tracks. There are lots of improvements for the GNOME Games app as well, as it now offers support for numerous retro gaming consoles. Among other improvements, we can mention Flatpak integration, photo sharing, revamped GNOME Software app with support for firmware updates, redesigned keyboard settings and a brand new GNOME Control Center panel, and a redesigned dconf Editor. A video overview of the new features of GNOME 3.22 is available on the official website.
Wot? They added features to Nautilus? That is unpossible.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
When I first saw Gnome 3 I thought it was a great time to try tiling window managers. Four years later, I'm still using i3.
I've slowly watched the GTK3 toolkit get more and more horrible.
Who's funding Gnome today anyway?
Imagine if they'd spent the last decade making Gnome better, refining it, finding the annoying details, instead of spinning in circles. It would be the best desktop out there right now.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
dubbed Karlsruhe after the German host city of the annual GUADEC (GNOME Users And Developers European Conference) event
Instead of Karlsruhe, they should name it "Pyongyang", as the GNOME team's mentality towards their users is far more similar to that country.
None of the aforementioned were forced on anybody. But actually, bringing them up shows how different the free software ecosystem is compared to Windows'. On Windows, you have to use unsupported software to avoid bad changes, like the spyware in Windows 10. If you preferred GNOME2 to Unity or GNOME3, you can use MATE; all the major distros support it. And if you don't like systemd, some distros still support the other inits, and Slackware and Gentoo still by default don't use it.
Free software is awesome because of the choice and liberty at your disposal.
Today, September 21, is a foul pox upon mankind in this foul year of our lord 2016 for Linux users, especially those who love seizure-inducing lensflares and widgets lifted straight from the rough draft of Minority Report, as the next iteration of a cautionary tale in software development is now officially available. Yes, that's right, we're talking about GNOME 3.22, dubbed Karlsruhe after the German demon that feasts on the remains of the QC team whom it slaughtered, which took place last month between August 12-14, 2016. Prominent features of the GNOME 3.22 desktop environment include batch rename functionality in the hands of those least qualified, and support for integration of compressed files built directly into a system that will grind to a halt upon their encounter, a new Week View, support for alarms other than segmentation faults, and the ability to drag and drop both your once unbroken pride and self respect to the GNOME Calendar, as well as an updated GNOME Music app that supports handling of music libraries with thousands of tracks until it inexplicably cant, or wont. There are lots of improvements for the GNOME Games app as well, as it now offers support for numerous retro gaming consoles whether you wanted them or not. Among other improvements, we can mention Flatpak integration for chinstrap hipster code camp junkies vaping salvia, photo sharing that youve been doing in the browser for 5 years now, revamped GNOME Software app with support for firmware updates which sounds important but means nothing, infuriatingly redesigned keyboard settings and a marketing-driven reskin of the GNOME Control Center panel, and a redesigned dconf Editor we call windows registry simulator 2003 thats guaranteed to provide your own personal hell from which the only escape you once called linux now lays before you a corrupt degenerate called GNOME. A video overview of the new features of GNOME 3.22 is available on the official website titled "where is your god now."
Good people go to bed earlier.
Hey there buddy, I was expecting someone to trot out this old 'you can choose on Linux' argument.
Please answer the following questions:'
How many distros use Gnome or one of its mutant strains as the default DE?
I dunno, there's too many distros to count.
How many distros use systemd?
See above.
What percentage of the Linux user world gets Gnome or system forced down their throat in the default, out of box loadout?
Couldn't tell you what percentage of Linux users use a distro with GNOME or systemd as the default, see above. But as to how many of them are being forced, zero. All of them can download Slackware or CRUX or Debian or an older still-supported version of other distros if they want to.
Really, I don't understand why you're so vehement about these two particular projects. I don't see you complaining about how the Linux kernel and the GNU coreutils and vi and X.org are tyrannical defaults and they're forced on you. They're even more prevalent than GNOME and systemd are. I guess the difference is there's no herd of sheep to follow in neverending complaints for those others like GNOME and systemd have.
How many users of those distros change their DE away from Gnome or try to strip out the systemd cancer?
See the above.
I agree. I enjoy gnome on all of my desktop (arch/antergos) linux installations at work and at home. I can go weeks/months without needing to reboot and it is very keyboard friendly. Some of the extensions are awesome as well (dash to dock, shellshape, topicons plus, pixelsaver). I do agree it would be close to crappy without them but I do not believe that is really a bad thing since I have to customize other GUIs about the same if not more. I recently added that float youtube across workspace extension - actually pretty neat/useful. Dash to dock and pixelsaver should be default imo!
I don't care if you like or don't like GNOME or systemd. There's things I like about them and things I don't as well. If you want to boycott them, power to you. Do whatever it takes for you to get your work done.
What I take issue with are the people who smear free software by saying that anything was "forced" on them despite the fact that alternatives exist. What's the point of using free software if you're going to crawl into a fetal position and weep yourself to sleep whenever something you don't like is the default?
and just like gnome, the link is broken...
I just recently tried the beta for 3.22 though and honestly it's not so bad. The default configuration sucks though, you need to install a bunch of extensions and gnome-tweak-tool for it to be usable.
Exactly!
Similarly, after years of being a hater of Chevrolets, I just bought a new Cruze, and honestly it's not so bad. The default configuration sucks though, so I had to drop in a different engine, put in some new seats (which required some welding), transplant infotainment (nav/radio) system from another car, and to make that work I had to replace the whole dashboard. I also swapped out the ugly-ass wheels and put some new brakes on it while I was at it, and repainted it too because Chevy's available paint schemes were all horrible. But other than those minor modifications, it's not too bad a car!
Free software is awesome because of the choice and liberty at your disposal.
The problem is that people don't want choice and liberty, then want to spend $$$ on stuff from one of two giant, dominating corporations, and then bitch and complain when it's broken and doesn't work to their liking.
I watched the video showing new features, and one of the new features is: you double-click on an archive and it automatically extracts the contents in the same directory as the archive.
I don't want that. I want it to not work that way. In fact I want it to work exactly like it works in my MATE desktop: I can double-click an archive and it opens in an archive manager app, and there is an "Extract" button in that app.
I could see putting a right-click menu option "Extract..." if it's so freaking important to extract an archive with minimal steps. But making the default for double-clicking be to extract in place? No no no.
lf(1): it's like ls(1) but sorts filenames by extension, tersely
What I liked about GNOME 2.x, and still like about MATE today, is that out-of-the-box it works like I expect. I tweak a few things, but if I boot up from a USB drive with a live image, I'm still comfortable and I still get work done.
With GNOME 3.x all the defaults are alien and uncomfortable for me. Yeah, with enough work I could make it do what I want... there's a project for that and it's called Cinnamon.
I think that the GNOME 3.x developers made a lot of decisions, early on, without usability studies... and those decisions are baked in and hard to change now. If I'm wrong and there are usability studies, and the studies prove that GNOME 3.x tests very well with ordinary users, then I'd like to see those studies and read them for myself.
lf(1): it's like ls(1) but sorts filenames by extension, tersely