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GNOME 3.26 Released (betanews.com)
BrianFagioli shares a report from BetaNews: Today, GNOME 3.26 codenamed "Manchester" sees release. It is chock full of improvements, such as a much-needed refreshed settings menu, enhanced search, and color emoji! Yes, Linux users like using the silly symbols too! "System search has been improved for GNOME 3.26. Results have an updated layout which makes them easier to read and shows more items at once. Additionally, it's now possible to search for system actions, including power off, suspend, lock screen, log out, switch user and orientation lock. (Log out and switch user only appear if there's more than one user. Orientation lock is only available if the device supports automatic screen rotation.) These search features can be accessed in the usual way: click Activities and type into the search box, or simply press 'super' and start typing," says the GNOME Project. The full release notes are available here.
Does it have a rain screensaver? After all, it always rains in Manchester
If you gave me a choice between a printer and a giraffe with explosive diarrhoea, i'll get my ladder and my raincoat
Is the default theme dull and grey?
No word on performance? Gnome 3.24 is so slow on my i5 with HD 4000 on wayland and xfree.
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Oh wow, that's SUCH important improvement that I can hardly contain my excitement! It's okay that the rest of the desktop-environment sucks ass as long as I get my emojis!
"Log out and switch user only appear if there's more than one user."
Um, so I can't log out unless someone else is already logged in? How does someone else get a login prompt then? Stop removing shit!
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It's closer to "news for nerds" than 99% of the rest this site offers these days, be happy with what little you get.
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Why can't all these UI idiots face facts. The desktop was perfectly usable two decades ago.
All they've done since then is continually waste time reinventing the wheel. And each time it gets worse, less usable, and more of a complete PITA to get your actual work done.
Only 5 year olds are impressed by whirring, popping up, animated things. If there's a working file manager, a way to adjust settings, and a way to launch programs easily then your job is done ! Now go and do somethng USEFUL with your time. Wtite some decent APPLICATIONS.
But no. These retarded clowns will spend the rest of eternity chaging pixel shading, dumbing things down and genrally pissing off what used to be their users. This week we've made the file manager circular with green icons... two months later..... now we've made the file manager triangular with all new pink icons.... two months later... now the file manager is oval with yellow icons... Rinse and repeat until the end of time.
I hope GNOME dies in a fire.
Meanwhile, NeXTSTEP and derivatives (including OS X and GNUstep) have supported 'open {file}' to open it in your preferred graphical application ('open {directory}' to open a directory in the graphical file manager) since 1988.
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It sure is bloated for a desktop whose selling point is being simple and featureless and uncustomizable. At any rate, the problem is that we remember when GNOME was more powerful -- version 1.4, nearly 20 years ago.
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Meh. I like clean and uncluttered UIs that don't require much (if any) tweaking myself, but GNOME 3.x-series is just terrible in how clunky they've made it and how much useful stuff they've removed from it. Personally, Cinnamon is my current favourite, though it's terribly buggy and not well-supported at all under either Ubuntu or Debian. KDE is way too far into the "everything and the kitchen sink" - mentality, GNOME is way too far into the "back to the stone-ages," and I just find myself wishing Cinnamon got more love than it does now.
Then again, Linux on the desktop sucks in general, like e.g. I just found out that neither Chromium or Firefox, for example, still support H/W-accelerated playback of video -- this has been on the TODO-list for a decade already. Something like that affects battery-life on portable devices and can make all the difference between whether one can play higher-resolution Youtube-videos or not on a budget-laptop, for example.
I have tried Gnome 3 several times, just too hard to use, the pager is broken (up/down only), no maximise button, hard to open a *new* terminal in a *new* window, ... I now run Mate, I find it intuitive and it works as I want.
I mean, for people that want to code, or browse or watch a film, maybe do some multitasking why choose GNOME over anything else?
Is it easy to use and customise? Is it fast? Is it stable? Does it need a fuckton of dependencies and forces unnecessary shit on users?
System search?! Emoji?? - what the fuck are these people doing?
Once upon a time GNOME was clean, fast and simply didnt get in the way of doing shit. KDE was a slower but was very shiny. These days they both suck.
If I wanted a horrifically bloated "flat" interface with seven layers of buried shit menus I'd just use Windows 10.
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Gnome terminal insists on setting TERM=xterm but does not generate the same sequences, eg it generates the wrong escape sequence for Shift-F1. There is a good description with TERM=gnome, but they refuse to use it. Why don't they just fix it to generate the right escape sequences ? Backwards compatibility ? - That can't be the reason: if the terminfo description is wrong then no one can be using it.
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After all these years, the only thing that has ever made me question my decision to have a Linux desktop is Gnome 3. Had it been the case that Gnome 3 was the only desktop for Linux I would probably have stopped using Linux in the desktop altogether - even Windows seems to be an attractive option, in comparison (almost, not quite). Fortunately, we do not have to eat that dog food.
I run Mate which is a clone of the more sensible GNOME 2. Mate is based on the GTK+ user interface toolkit.
Unfortunately, development of the GTK+ toolkit was also taken over by the same idiots that "develop" GNOME 3.
They have done things such as breaking the API on minor version number revisions, and added requirements to those of GNOME 3.
They changed the tried and true behaviour of scrollbars and sliders to not paging when you click in the trough and which stops if you move the knob too slowly.
They removed the way that submenus stay open longer if you move the mouse pointer towards it.
Text has smooth - but delayed - scrolling that can't be sped up to instantaneous.
I thought about writing a theme engine that patched the behaviour (which I did in the GTK+ 1.2 days) but they "deprecated" theme engines, so now I would have to fork the entire toolkit if I want to fix it.
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So there's time for this shit but no time for a decent file manager ?
They have been trying to clone MS explorer in gtk for ever but can't quite get it to do anything useful. That is why systemd was born so that changing settings would be more like doing a regedit in gnome land instead of just a simple text edit in a config file. You see we all have to come to understand that obfuscation is how to make things more stable by making us uncircumcised sysv addicts shut up and stop configuring things the way we want them to work. Now everything has to be hidden in a parsed encoded file whose location is changed regularly by those who do not want everyone else easily learning how to configure their interface.
By constantly changing the names of targets and moving things around the level of obfuscation ensures that only the interface coders at Red Hat can work on gnome. Precisely the reason why Patrick dropped a the gnome desktop from Slackware years before systemd sealed the fate for most Linux users. For years the cross dependency to run things broke so much that he gave up trying to release a preconfigured Gnome desktop install.
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Mate is now pretty much been ported to GTK+ 3, and they've managed to keep much of the look and feel that it had with GTK+ 2. So apparently most of what you dislike about Gnome 3's behavior must be tweakable in GTK+ already.
GTK+ 3 themes can now be made much simpler than the old engine days. You can now do it with CSS to good effect. And there are GTK+ 3 versions of older themes like Clearlooks that look pretty good.