I’d be curious to know the details of your fight. I have been using Dvorak for the last 10+ years and it hasn’t been much of an issue for me. My desktop environment offers Dvorak in the list of available layouts, so it’s just as easy as setting QWERTY (or even AZERTY since I am in France) as your choice. In the rare occasion where someone wants to use my computer, I can either use the current layout as an excuse to do the task myself (which is usually faster anyway), or I can temporarily add a second layout in a matter of seconds.
That’s bullshit. That reddit thread takes data on a short period of time and doesn’t take the whole picture into consideration. The GNOME Foundation never diverted money from its budget to spend it on OPW. All expenses had matching income (+ a commission for administrative fees), but they may not show up in the report for the same year. Take the annual reports for 2011—2017 and you’ll be able to see it.
The issue that OPW created for GNOME and that started this rumour was cash flow, because sponsors took too much time to pay their invoices and GNOME ended up fronting the stipends for interns.
Parent should be moded down because it is the opposite of “informative”.
Clock can be switched on/off, just like app menu and Activity. You’re right about the other two though.
My second monitor isn't just a side show. It's an alternate primary, depending on what I'm doing. I don't want to look at my left monitor temporarily while I'm focused on the right. E.g. I have an applet that tells me if my Caps Lock is pressed because my laptop doesn't have a Caps indicator light at all.
Fair enough. Maybe raise the issue to the extension maintainer?
And I don't recall very well, but I think maximised windows behave differently on the second monitor in regards to title bar and menu bar than they do on the first. I have a hazy memory of being unable to get the close/max/min triplet because it wasn't shown at all on the second one.
Seems to work exactly the same on both screens for me here.
What exactly makes a terminal application the default one? It’s not like the default video player that will open when you double click on a video file, or your default office suite. Installing another terminal application makes it appear alongside the previous one. What more do you need?
Why is the nautilus menu so counter intuitive?
That’s a bit of an empty statement and can’t be addressed if you don’t elaborate on what’s wrong or why it’s wrong.
Why, after installing an application with the gnome package manager thinger, can I not find my new application in the list of installed apps?
It should work. Maybe you hit a bug? Worth checking if it’s been reported and file a new one if that’s not the case.
I mean, even windows will search around the file system in various folders of convenience and show relevant results if what you're typing isn't found.
I’m not sure what you’re talking about here. Do you have an example of something you searched, where you searched for it and what a relevant result on your system would have been?
I can't remember what the last straw was, but I installed xfce (again) and never looked back.
Since when did the user's choice of desktop become an operating system decision?
(Most) distributions don’t make any decision regarding your choice of desktop environment. You can e.g. run KDE or GNOME or XFCE or something else on Ubuntu, as well as Fedora, or openSUSE.
The correct question would have been since when did the version of the desktop environment become a distribution decision, which boils down to the version of software being a distribution decision, and the answer would be forever. It has been precisely the job of distributions to carefully select compatible versions of a set of software pieces since distributions were a thing.
Not that distribution packagers give a crap about what users want but, IMHO, the desktop software ought to get pulled out of the "/usr/..." tree and placed under "/opt/desktop/..." and be updatable on the user's schedule and not require a damned OS upgrade (except when there are underlying library dependencies).
Mind you, for desktop applications you could switch away from the distribution packages to something like flatpak and have the newest GNOME applications as soon as GNOME releases them. This is precisely what it’s about, shifting the balance of software delivery back towards the ones who make the software.
By booking more than half, they effectively also booked half. These 45 booked seats are included within the set of 50 booked sits. Are you the one who maybe skipped math class?
But every once in a while now something will open an evince window or I want to play Iagno. It's bad enough that those windows don't follow the system theme at all (which was once a solved problem).
Do you have a link to a bug report for that?
To make all of this worse, I know that gnome can support these sort of things. I've configured it on a work machine that only has gnome3. But I can't find a way to make Gnome apps behave when run under XFCE.
Sounds like maybe the XFCE window manager isn’t doing something it should be doing, don’t you think? In any case the GNOME developers are not hostile like you like to call them and that issue should be reported in a bug tracker so it can eventually be solved.
Funny enough, I just noted a post-it app I have up is using client side decorations but still manages to handle shading correct. Still raises on click and can't be pinned. But there's hope these wheel will eventually be rediscovered or reinvented.
Can you provide us with the name of that application and maybe a link to their website?
I find it interesting that this and the Purism phone news are next to one another, when one of the main drivers of Purism is they provide hardware killswitches for wireless (and webcams, and mics).
I've worked with a number of teams that use Git, and they all use it like a centralized VCS
The D in DVCS stands for distributed, not decentralized. The model is up to you, but even with a centralized one there are many benefits. Try bisecting with SVN.
except it's more awkward to set up and use than a VCS like SVN or Perforce or even CVS is.
Then you must be doing something wrong. I’ve had to handle both SVN and git repo sharing and git was a breeze compared to SVN. Not to mention starting a project on your own is as easy as `git init`.
Then they spend more time arguing about whether or not to rebase than they spend actually developing software.
Sure, the tool is to blame for people who like bikeshedding.
It's a real shame that Mercurial didn't win out. It's a superior DVCS in every way, except for not having as much mindless hype surrounding it. But I suppose in some ways that's one of its best features, too. It hasn't attracted all of the fools that Git has.
My first DVCS experience was with Mercurial, and I’m glad git won the race. The only features I missed when moving to git were `hg incoming` and `hg outgoing` and I kinda managed to implement them with aliases using fetch and log, so I’m happy now.
Linux is mainly for servers and embedded systems. On the desktop it's for people that enjoy tinkering with computers rather than getting work done.
Funny that I stopped using Windows and moved to Linux on my desktop precisely because I was tired of having to maintain the system itself and wasting my time on tinkering rather getting work done.
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I’d be curious to know the details of your fight. I have been using Dvorak for the last 10+ years and it hasn’t been much of an issue for me. My desktop environment offers Dvorak in the list of available layouts, so it’s just as easy as setting QWERTY (or even AZERTY since I am in France) as your choice. In the rare occasion where someone wants to use my computer, I can either use the current layout as an excuse to do the task myself (which is usually faster anyway), or I can temporarily add a second layout in a matter of seconds.
It’s only been 16 years (18 if you count the Galeon years, since Epiphany/GNOME Web is a fork of it).
That’s bullshit. That reddit thread takes data on a short period of time and doesn’t take the whole picture into consideration. The GNOME Foundation never diverted money from its budget to spend it on OPW. All expenses had matching income (+ a commission for administrative fees), but they may not show up in the report for the same year. Take the annual reports for 2011—2017 and you’ll be able to see it.
The issue that OPW created for GNOME and that started this rumour was cash flow, because sponsors took too much time to pay their invoices and GNOME ended up fronting the stipends for interns.
Parent should be moded down because it is the opposite of “informative”.
He’s best know for his work on Samba, and for pushing for some notable software (like Cygwin and XFS) to be released under the GPL.
The GNOME Foundation was never bankrupt.
I think I gave it a shot. Just like in their screenshot, the second monitor does not get:
- tray icons - power / logoff / settings icon - clock
Clock can be switched on/off, just like app menu and Activity. You’re right about the other two though.
My second monitor isn't just a side show. It's an alternate primary, depending on what I'm doing. I don't want to look at my left monitor temporarily while I'm focused on the right. E.g. I have an applet that tells me if my Caps Lock is pressed because my laptop doesn't have a Caps indicator light at all.
Fair enough. Maybe raise the issue to the extension maintainer?
And I don't recall very well, but I think maximised windows behave differently on the second monitor in regards to title bar and menu bar than they do on the first. I have a hazy memory of being unable to get the close/max/min triplet because it wasn't shown at all on the second one.
Seems to work exactly the same on both screens for me here.
Why is it so hard to change the default terminal?
What exactly makes a terminal application the default one? It’s not like the default video player that will open when you double click on a video file, or your default office suite. Installing another terminal application makes it appear alongside the previous one. What more do you need?
Why is the nautilus menu so counter intuitive?
That’s a bit of an empty statement and can’t be addressed if you don’t elaborate on what’s wrong or why it’s wrong.
Why, after installing an application with the gnome package manager thinger, can I not find my new application in the list of installed apps?
It should work. Maybe you hit a bug? Worth checking if it’s been reported and file a new one if that’s not the case.
I mean, even windows will search around the file system in various folders of convenience and show relevant results if what you're typing isn't found.
I’m not sure what you’re talking about here. Do you have an example of something you searched, where you searched for it and what a relevant result on your system would have been?
I can't remember what the last straw was, but I installed xfce (again) and never looked back.
If XFCE makes you happy, that’s good.
You can read all about them in the release notes. Probably a better choice than an article that picked their favourite ones from there.
Since when did the user's choice of desktop become an operating system decision?
(Most) distributions don’t make any decision regarding your choice of desktop environment. You can e.g. run KDE or GNOME or XFCE or something else on Ubuntu, as well as Fedora, or openSUSE. The correct question would have been since when did the version of the desktop environment become a distribution decision, which boils down to the version of software being a distribution decision, and the answer would be forever. It has been precisely the job of distributions to carefully select compatible versions of a set of software pieces since distributions were a thing.
Not that distribution packagers give a crap about what users want but, IMHO, the desktop software ought to get pulled out of the "/usr/..." tree and placed under "/opt/desktop/..." and be updatable on the user's schedule and not require a damned OS upgrade (except when there are underlying library dependencies).
Mind you, for desktop applications you could switch away from the distribution packages to something like flatpak and have the newest GNOME applications as soon as GNOME releases them. This is precisely what it’s about, shifting the balance of software delivery back towards the ones who make the software.
I use Multi Monitors Add-On which has this feature.
Nobody would have had to look it up if TFS linked to the original release notes.
By booking more than half, they effectively also booked half. These 45 booked seats are included within the set of 50 booked sits. Are you the one who maybe skipped math class?
But every once in a while now something will open an evince window or I want to play Iagno. It's bad enough that those windows don't follow the system theme at all (which was once a solved problem).
Do you have a link to a bug report for that?
To make all of this worse, I know that gnome can support these sort of things. I've configured it on a work machine that only has gnome3. But I can't find a way to make Gnome apps behave when run under XFCE.
Sounds like maybe the XFCE window manager isn’t doing something it should be doing, don’t you think? In any case the GNOME developers are not hostile like you like to call them and that issue should be reported in a bug tracker so it can eventually be solved.
Funny enough, I just noted a post-it app I have up is using client side decorations but still manages to handle shading correct. Still raises on click and can't be pinned. But there's hope these wheel will eventually be rediscovered or reinvented.
Can you provide us with the name of that application and maybe a link to their website?
Who else stopped reading two words into the summary?
Maybe you shouldn’t waste your time commenting either if you actually can’t be bothered to read more than the first two words?
24px (actual height) out of 1200 is 2% of screen estate. I don’t consider that negligible.
This is exactly why I quit using Gnome 20 years ago.
Ha ha ha. Thank you so much, that made my day.
I find it interesting that this and the Purism phone news are next to one another, when one of the main drivers of Purism is they provide hardware killswitches for wireless (and webcams, and mics).
GNOME was born on August 15 1997.
It happened yesterday.
https://www.freedesktop.org/wi...
I've worked with a number of teams that use Git, and they all use it like a centralized VCS
The D in DVCS stands for distributed, not decentralized. The model is up to you, but even with a centralized one there are many benefits. Try bisecting with SVN.
except it's more awkward to set up and use than a VCS like SVN or Perforce or even CVS is.
Then you must be doing something wrong. I’ve had to handle both SVN and git repo sharing and git was a breeze compared to SVN. Not to mention starting a project on your own is as easy as `git init`.
Then they spend more time arguing about whether or not to rebase than they spend actually developing software.
Sure, the tool is to blame for people who like bikeshedding.
It's a real shame that Mercurial didn't win out. It's a superior DVCS in every way, except for not having as much mindless hype surrounding it. But I suppose in some ways that's one of its best features, too. It hasn't attracted all of the fools that Git has.
My first DVCS experience was with Mercurial, and I’m glad git won the race. The only features I missed when moving to git were `hg incoming` and `hg outgoing` and I kinda managed to implement them with aliases using fetch and log, so I’m happy now.
Linux is mainly for servers and embedded systems. On the desktop it's for people that enjoy tinkering with computers rather than getting work done.
Funny that I stopped using Windows and moved to Linux on my desktop precisely because I was tired of having to maintain the system itself and wasting my time on tinkering rather getting work done.
You should read Why I don't recommend Signal anymore (by Sander Venema).
Happy that you find something to suits your needs!
Ha ha ah. Okay.