and while he dubbed the Mir opponents as non-technical...
He did non call the Mir opponents non-technical. He appologized for calling non-technical critics of Mir the "Open Source Tea Party". That's quite a difference.
Compiz developers have fixed the option "Unredirect Fullscreen Windows" and enabled it by default in 0.9.8.6. So games should have the same performance as when running on a non-compositing window manager.
Modernizing GNOME2, yeah, that'll be a massive job man, what with it being so ancient and all, I mean the devs stopped working on it way back in 2010.
Gnome 2 was created some 10 years ago and while it has been improved and updated it still carries a lot of cruft.
Seriously, sure it should be updated to GTK3 at some point, but the GTK2 libs will still work until get around to it. So they can either take the GNOME2 codebase and update it in a piecemeal fashion as their resources allow, or they can completely reimplement all the GNOME2 features on top of GNOME classic which should only take them a few years. Now which is the best option for someone who wants something GNOME2-like now.
As I said, most of that work has already been done. Gnome classic is a port of the gnome 2 desktop, not a reimplementation.
Why not improve the gnome classic desktop from gnome 3 instead? This zombie-gnome2 effort seems like a waste of time to me.
Can you put a weather widget on the top bar on Gnome3 Classic? How about a CPU temp sensor? How about a graph that shows CPU, RAM, swap, and network usage? Maybe a sensor that shows the CPU speed for each core with the ability to change them to ondemand or performace? Can you put the taskbar on bottom bar? Can you put just a gnome foot (start button) on the bottom left like Windows and the full menu on top (Gnome-foot, Places, System)?
The last time I tried Gnome3, none of these things were possible. These were not an option on Gnome3 Classic either. I want my old Gnome2 back, not the "look" of Gnome2 stuck on top of Gnome3. I don't want "New Coke" in an "Old Coke" can.
You can do all those things in gnome fallback (though you need to hold alt when right clicking on the panel). The same applets are available: http://omgubuntu.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/gnome-fallback.jpg
Besides you seem to be missing my point. I never said that gnome classic is great. But if you want to maintain a traditional desktop it would be better to start with gnome classic rather than taking on the huge job of modernizing gnome 2 since most of the effort has already been done.
It basically goes totally downhill after that. This bullshit with GPU acceleration being required in the first place, and then this additional bullshit involving LLVM, is yet another in a long list of flaws and horrible decisions.
Err.. The llvmpipe driver is developed by mesa and xorg to provide a software fallback driver that is faster than the dog slow swrast driver. Exactly why is this "bullshit" and a "horrible decision."?
On my new samsung galaxy I had like four "apps" that did nothing but opening the default web browser with different start pages (my carrier's music and video services etc). After rooting the phone I used an uninstaller app to remove them + some other cruft.
Release often with new features, but once in a while realase a long term version that's maintained for at least a year or two for those who require stability.
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Also when you actually look at ubuntu touch, it's just Android with a UI stapled on top ...
No it's not. Not since the early preview builds.
He did non call the Mir opponents non-technical. He appologized for calling non-technical critics of Mir the "Open Source Tea Party". That's quite a difference.
Compiz developers have fixed the option "Unredirect Fullscreen Windows" and enabled it by default in 0.9.8.6. So games should have the same performance as when running on a non-compositing window manager.
... For normal folks there is Avast Free and Comodo Internet Security. Avast is good, but a little chatty but some people like chatty ...
You can turn off the notifications in avast if they're annoyning.
Modernizing GNOME2, yeah, that'll be a massive job man, what with it being so ancient and all, I mean the devs stopped working on it way back in 2010.
Gnome 2 was created some 10 years ago and while it has been improved and updated it still carries a lot of cruft.
Seriously, sure it should be updated to GTK3 at some point, but the GTK2 libs will still work until get around to it. So they can either take the GNOME2 codebase and update it in a piecemeal fashion as their resources allow, or they can completely reimplement all the GNOME2 features on top of GNOME classic which should only take them a few years. Now which is the best option for someone who wants something GNOME2-like now.
As I said, most of that work has already been done. Gnome classic is a port of the gnome 2 desktop, not a reimplementation.
Why not improve the gnome classic desktop from gnome 3 instead? This zombie-gnome2 effort seems like a waste of time to me.
Can you put a weather widget on the top bar on Gnome3 Classic? How about a CPU temp sensor? How about a graph that shows CPU, RAM, swap, and network usage? Maybe a sensor that shows the CPU speed for each core with the ability to change them to ondemand or performace? Can you put the taskbar on bottom bar? Can you put just a gnome foot (start button) on the bottom left like Windows and the full menu on top (Gnome-foot, Places, System)?
The last time I tried Gnome3, none of these things were possible. These were not an option on Gnome3 Classic either. I want my old Gnome2 back, not the "look" of Gnome2 stuck on top of Gnome3. I don't want "New Coke" in an "Old Coke" can.
You can do all those things in gnome fallback (though you need to hold alt when right clicking on the panel). The same applets are available: http://omgubuntu.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/gnome-fallback.jpg Besides you seem to be missing my point. I never said that gnome classic is great. But if you want to maintain a traditional desktop it would be better to start with gnome classic rather than taking on the huge job of modernizing gnome 2 since most of the effort has already been done.
Why not improve the gnome classic desktop from gnome 3 instead? This zombie-gnome2 effort seems like a waste of time to me.
What would be faster and easier to maintain if the software fallback driver is removed from mesa?
It basically goes totally downhill after that. This bullshit with GPU acceleration being required in the first place, and then this additional bullshit involving LLVM, is yet another in a long list of flaws and horrible decisions.
Err.. The llvmpipe driver is developed by mesa and xorg to provide a software fallback driver that is faster than the dog slow swrast driver. Exactly why is this "bullshit" and a "horrible decision."?
On my new samsung galaxy I had like four "apps" that did nothing but opening the default web browser with different start pages (my carrier's music and video services etc). After rooting the phone I used an uninstaller app to remove them + some other cruft.
Release often with new features, but once in a while realase a long term version that's maintained for at least a year or two for those who require stability.