Disclaimer, I use Gnome shell and since your criticism is about both, I think this is relevant. 1. Computer shell is NOT like car controls. Mistakes are not deadly. I could easily make analogy with mobile phones or any other consumer device and it becomes quite apparent, that people can adapt to new stuff (maybe not all developers, but progress by funerals is fine by me). 2. Meta key is your friend. Use it and there is no need to move the mouse all the way. 3. So, you claim they ruined it all, and should just leave it the way it was, and on the other hand say that maybe it's just you. To make matters worse, you already have a working solution. And your problem is what exactly?
Since your licence is "none", we cannot see or hear your great creation, because you have not given us any licence to do so. So, you can stick your great creation up your closet and enjoy being the great creator you are.
- the statement about reducing distraction. Its current form actually is very distracting, much more so that its GNOME 2 (seriously, with multiple windows open I have to Alt-Tab, arrow... arrow and that's NOT distracting?)
Alt-tab distracts you from what exactly? Your previous work? The less distraction thing is more about hiding stuff that has little nothing to do with what you are working with. And all the extra stuff (task switcher, quick menu, system tray, workspaces) are just one key press away.
- they seem to be solving problems that I really have not seen anyone bring up. Where was the overwhelming requirement for "less distraction"?
It seems you didn't read discussion about how annoying should the "application is ready" (when in task switcher icons blink). That stuff is very distracting. There were numerous solutions, like make it blink very slowly. Now it is hidden far enough. Only once it states loudly, that it is ready, then sits in the corner and quietly waits.
- the base font change still leaves me scratching my head. It's harder to read, dimmed text is almost unreadable without highlighting the selection, and the font just seems more "plain" than the one it replaced
I sure hope you filed bug report. For me it is more readable.
- less choice, more "why would you do that" and (my personal favourite) "it spoils the GNOME experience". In other words, the priority is to please its developers more than its users.
Fist, features are expensive. Somebody has to actually code AND maintain them. If the features are not used and tested properly, they tend to have nasty bugs, which in turn ruin the experience. Second, I have seen users ruin their desktops beyond repair.
After using Gnome 3 for a while I notice more and more how old design was broken. Sure, the new one isn't without quirks, but it is not because of design, but more like lack of polish here and there. One could hope that these new deigns will die, but the actual developers seem to actually like it. I seriously doubt that there is substantial amount of gnome-shell bashers, who actually develop for gnome-panel (btw, in the new gnome panels are still there and are developed). And if the Xfce or other "classical" desktops will not reign supreme, it will be because the new designs are better, right? Better as in more people like to use it.
More likely there was lot of activity between loading the page and you moderating it. Especially, when someone mods and then comments in the same topic, the moderation point get lost.
Note to mods – this is NOT Insightful. Indication of insight potential – full sentences. Nor is this any more Informative than the friendly summary. This qualifies for Redundant, as this kind of reply is seen over and over when it comes to digital cables.
Did a bit or random sampling around Europe and it seems that "girl" and "girls" are in all of them. Maybe it is because these terms yield more relevant results.
Short points: 1. I love your assumption about causes of spending inequality. Or are they backed up by any data that are not one instance of anecdote? If so, care to share them? 2. I don't think the GP was pointing out how smug Linux users are. More like, that Linux users are actually paying (contrary to popular belief).
Longer points: 1. Cheapskate is such a strong word, now isn't it? I certainly am a cheapskate, because I didn't go to cinemas to see "Kings Speech", instead, I just sat home and polished Gnome 3 translations. If the price of a ticket was "pay what you want" and I would pay 1$, then I would go see it. I just don't value it enough. 2. This whole campaign is more like exchanging gifts. Since copying is really cheap, 4$ a game is really a lot, isn't it — the game is already made. Now, with gifts you usually exchange gifts with approximately same value. For you they may be worth 15$. For some other random person it might be more like 3$. For others it is as valuable as addware. 3. This is a bundle, therefore 4$ for a game is a bit misleading. In previous bundle I bought I played only 2 games. In this bundle one looks very interesting, and could be motivation for gift exchange, but for others I could not care less. 4. Economists (especially those, who want to sell books) just love to jump to conclusions and so do you. Just because you can observe behaviour doesn't say much about their causes. My guess is that people in every situation try to balance out their selfishness and altruism. The more you give room for one, the more other one will lose. Just my guess.
The economist article looks at problem of having a huge choice (pick one of thousand), in desktop environments there is what? 4 variants at most. The rest is for those, who know what they are doing. I don't lose any sleep over all the cheese I can by or other DE that are out there. How do I do that? I just pick one and live with it. If one day I start to care or get curious, trying out other options is quite easy. And for those, who just wand a computer, will live with whatever is given to them (Windows, Ubuntu or whatever the other guy installed).
In particular see Aaron Seigo's rant on how GNOME ignored "status notifiers", a cross desktop specification submitted to Freedesktop.org and with an existing implementation by Canonical.
Dunno, the site looks fine. Code is clean and so is the website itself, accessibility works fine too. It lacks/. style bling blings, but that is no trait of poor design. Or is design in your view pictures and pretty colours?
Extrapolation from one example? IBM open sources stuff and they are fine. Also, it could be that Sun went down not because of open sourcing, but because of hardware division losses. I haven't studied their finances though.
But that doesn't mean it's actually important to everyone that their software (and associated electronic devices) be open source.
Stallman doesn't care about open source either. He cares about free software. And other stuff as well. Like privacy and other stuff people care about when asked, but not on the ground. For example, I know quite a few people how don't care about right to share information with others, bet when they end up in trail for copyright infringement, then suddenly they do care.
And no good topic should go without Nazi reference – should you care if government would wrap up Jews in cosy camps? Or a terrorist suspect? Of course not! Because they would never do that to you.
Reminds me of aliens, who land on Earth, goes to the neared bar and says "Take me to your leader". To solve this problem, we need new world order! Also, Gnome is not a distro. I haven't seen a trend of them trying to adopt every peace of code there is.
I think what you are trying to say is "dictator implies some people support him". Like, if there is support from police and army, then what else do you need? Even if 90% know that anything is better than this, but revolting means swift death, what do you expect? Maybe you believe in "liberty or death", but for lots of others it is more like "live to fight another day".
This story is quite short on any significant details, so this is all speculation.
Did she see all her students as dim, or only some of them?
If only some, where they considered such because of stereotypes (race, accent, disabilities) or because it was good assessment? Some people are slow minded, you know.
Would it be more helpful, if she really couldn't tell, if some students were less capable or outright didn't care about school?
My main problem with your post is that I can't you make analogy with something related to education, but don't point out, how is your example relevant to this case. And I believe that form the friendly (yet scarce) article you could not make this link.
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wtf is a meta key?
Also known as Super key and Windows key. Usually found between Ctrl and Alt keys.
Disclaimer, I use Gnome shell and since your criticism is about both, I think this is relevant.
1. Computer shell is NOT like car controls. Mistakes are not deadly. I could easily make analogy with mobile phones or any other consumer device and it becomes quite apparent, that people can adapt to new stuff (maybe not all developers, but progress by funerals is fine by me).
2. Meta key is your friend. Use it and there is no need to move the mouse all the way.
3. So, you claim they ruined it all, and should just leave it the way it was, and on the other hand say that maybe it's just you. To make matters worse, you already have a working solution. And your problem is what exactly?
Since your licence is "none", we cannot see or hear your great creation, because you have not given us any licence to do so. So, you can stick your great creation up your closet and enjoy being the great creator you are.
- the statement about reducing distraction. Its current form actually is very distracting, much more so that its GNOME 2 (seriously, with multiple windows open I have to Alt-Tab, arrow... arrow and that's NOT distracting?)
Alt-tab distracts you from what exactly? Your previous work? The less distraction thing is more about hiding stuff that has little nothing to do with what you are working with. And all the extra stuff (task switcher, quick menu, system tray, workspaces) are just one key press away.
- they seem to be solving problems that I really have not seen anyone bring up. Where was the overwhelming requirement for "less distraction"?
It seems you didn't read discussion about how annoying should the "application is ready" (when in task switcher icons blink). That stuff is very distracting. There were numerous solutions, like make it blink very slowly. Now it is hidden far enough. Only once it states loudly, that it is ready, then sits in the corner and quietly waits.
- the base font change still leaves me scratching my head. It's harder to read, dimmed text is almost unreadable without highlighting the selection, and the font just seems more "plain" than the one it replaced
I sure hope you filed bug report. For me it is more readable.
- less choice, more "why would you do that" and (my personal favourite) "it spoils the GNOME experience". In other words, the priority is to please its developers more than its users.
Fist, features are expensive. Somebody has to actually code AND maintain them. If the features are not used and tested properly, they tend to have nasty bugs, which in turn ruin the experience. Second, I have seen users ruin their desktops beyond repair.
After using Gnome 3 for a while I notice more and more how old design was broken. Sure, the new one isn't without quirks, but it is not because of design, but more like lack of polish here and there.
One could hope that these new deigns will die, but the actual developers seem to actually like it. I seriously doubt that there is substantial amount of gnome-shell bashers, who actually develop for gnome-panel (btw, in the new gnome panels are still there and are developed).
And if the Xfce or other "classical" desktops will not reign supreme, it will be because the new designs are better, right? Better as in more people like to use it.
And for others there is just one operating system and bootloader might as well sit on / partition. And everybody is happy.
More likely there was lot of activity between loading the page and you moderating it. Especially, when someone mods and then comments in the same topic, the moderation point get lost.
Note to mods – this is NOT Insightful. Indication of insight potential – full sentences. Nor is this any more Informative than the friendly summary. This qualifies for Redundant, as this kind of reply is seen over and over when it comes to digital cables.
Did a bit or random sampling around Europe and it seems that "girl" and "girls" are in all of them. Maybe it is because these terms yield more relevant results.
Sounds like gnome shell to me. http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Development
Thanks for the tip. It works in Natty like charm :)
Update the unity package.
I had the same problem and after the update no crashes. Maybe I am just lucky, but worth a try.
Yeah, except those two are two different things.
Short points:
1. I love your assumption about causes of spending inequality. Or are they backed up by any data that are not one instance of anecdote? If so, care to share them?
2. I don't think the GP was pointing out how smug Linux users are. More like, that Linux users are actually paying (contrary to popular belief).
Longer points:
1. Cheapskate is such a strong word, now isn't it? I certainly am a cheapskate, because I didn't go to cinemas to see "Kings Speech", instead, I just sat home and polished Gnome 3 translations. If the price of a ticket was "pay what you want" and I would pay 1$, then I would go see it. I just don't value it enough.
2. This whole campaign is more like exchanging gifts. Since copying is really cheap, 4$ a game is really a lot, isn't it — the game is already made. Now, with gifts you usually exchange gifts with approximately same value. For you they may be worth 15$. For some other random person it might be more like 3$. For others it is as valuable as addware.
3. This is a bundle, therefore 4$ for a game is a bit misleading. In previous bundle I bought I played only 2 games. In this bundle one looks very interesting, and could be motivation for gift exchange, but for others I could not care less.
4. Economists (especially those, who want to sell books) just love to jump to conclusions and so do you. Just because you can observe behaviour doesn't say much about their causes. My guess is that people in every situation try to balance out their selfishness and altruism. The more you give room for one, the more other one will lose. Just my guess.
On next Christmas ask her to buy this for you: http://store.theworstpageintheuniverse.com/shirts.html#PARENT
The economist article looks at problem of having a huge choice (pick one of thousand), in desktop environments there is what? 4 variants at most. The rest is for those, who know what they are doing.
I don't lose any sleep over all the cheese I can by or other DE that are out there. How do I do that? I just pick one and live with it. If one day I start to care or get curious, trying out other options is quite easy.
And for those, who just wand a computer, will live with whatever is given to them (Windows, Ubuntu or whatever the other guy installed).
In particular see Aaron Seigo's rant on how GNOME ignored "status notifiers", a cross desktop specification submitted to Freedesktop.org and with an existing implementation by Canonical.
And don't forget informative overview of this drama by Jeff: http://bethesignal.org/blog/2011/03/12/relationship-between-canonical-gnome/
Dunno, the site looks fine. Code is clean and so is the website itself, accessibility works fine too. It lacks /. style bling blings, but that is no trait of poor design. Or is design in your view pictures and pretty colours?
Extrapolation from one example? IBM open sources stuff and they are fine. Also, it could be that Sun went down not because of open sourcing, but because of hardware division losses. I haven't studied their finances though.
But that doesn't mean it's actually important to everyone that their software (and associated electronic devices) be open source.
Stallman doesn't care about open source either. He cares about free software. And other stuff as well. Like privacy and other stuff people care about when asked, but not on the ground. For example, I know quite a few people how don't care about right to share information with others, bet when they end up in trail for copyright infringement, then suddenly they do care.
And no good topic should go without Nazi reference – should you care if government would wrap up Jews in cosy camps? Or a terrorist suspect? Of course not! Because they would never do that to you.
Reminds me of aliens, who land on Earth, goes to the neared bar and says "Take me to your leader". To solve this problem, we need new world order!
Also, Gnome is not a distro. I haven't seen a trend of them trying to adopt every peace of code there is.
In GNOME it is non intrusive.
And your analysis is insightful.
I think what you are trying to say is "dictator implies some people support him". Like, if there is support from police and army, then what else do you need?
Even if 90% know that anything is better than this, but revolting means swift death, what do you expect? Maybe you believe in "liberty or death", but for lots of others it is more like "live to fight another day".
This story is quite short on any significant details, so this is all speculation.
My main problem with your post is that I can't you make analogy with something related to education, but don't point out, how is your example relevant to this case. And I believe that form the friendly (yet scarce) article you could not make this link.