The list on the right? But I mean without additional keypresses/mousework. Just a simple, grouped-by-category list of everything popping up all by itself.
* In Windows I feel like the Start menu is hard to navigate properly. Applications are sometimes grouped into folders and some aren't. There are no categories whatsoever. In GNOME 3 I not only get the same, handy "search" function that Windows 7 has, but I also get a much more intelligent application list which groups them by category and sorts them alphabetically without them being shoved into pointless folders.
I just wish the initial Applications view already grouped applications by category. Then I'd not feel so tempted to install the Mint menu. As it is, I get a huge confusing blob of unsorted icons, dominated (in my case) by a zillion start menu entries installed by a game via WINE.
I like seeing everything at once by default without manually drilling into categories, but it'd be so much more usable if there were a "paragraph" each for Graphics, Office, Development, etc.
Otherwise I'm quite fond of Gnome 3/Shell. I switch between flexibility and immediacy of KDE and the minimalist elegance of GNOME 3 about evenly.
No. I just "flattened" my music collection from "vinyl rips", "cd rips", "purchases", etc. to a simple artist/album hierarchy -- now Audacious is working okay for me. I do love the simplicity and the near-instantaneous startup. But I find I'm not listening to music I've "forgotten about" any more as it's not as visible as with a constantly displayed library. So I suspect I'll be keeping Clementine around, too.
KDE does have a lot of options I don't need or that don't quite satisfy. But it also has more of those I do need (or want) than any other desktop I've tried...
No, Commodore didn't (and most of their Amigas were infuriatingly low-specced), but there were expansion boards both with 680x0 and PPC CPUs. Here's one for the Amiga 1200: http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=154
my biggest complaint is that they took away the desktop icons.
? Mine are still there. Open the desktop settings and switch it to "Folder View" and/or add one or more Folder View widgets yourself. You can also drag application icons from the launcher to the desktop.
Me too; funnily enough, I've set it up rather like Unity with a vertical hybrid task-manager-with-launchers. Being KDE, though, it's easily malleable to new whims and needs. Plasma is a bit of a assemble-your-own-desktop kit. And I love Kmail and Knode, Kate, K3b, and Dolphin. It looked like a gutted toy version of Konqueror at first, but it can easily be set up as an informative but uncluttered and elegant file manager.
But I did disable Nepomuk/Strigi and the fairly puzzling aggregating notification system. Seriously, I could barely tell what was going on with that thing...
I believe Ubuntu 11.10 will be based on Gnome 3, just with Unity again instead of Gnome Shell. From what I've heard, Gnome Shell will nonetheless be available in the repositories. And you can quite easily try Gnome 3 and Gnome Shell now as they're available through this or that PPA. (I'm a nigh-fulltime KDE user, and my experience with Gnome Shell was brief, but I certainly preferred it to Unity... which I found quite bewildering.)
I had an A1200, but there were plenty RGB video monitors that worked fine for the traditional PAL and NTSC screenmodes, and the Acorn multisync/mutliscan monitor I had worked fine for those as well as for some of the higher-resolution AGA chipset modes. (Standard PC-type monitors worked fine for some screenmodes, with a scandoubler/flickerfixer between the RGB port and the monitor's VGA plug, but not necessarily for old schooly games.) I don't imagine the A600 had a different monitor port even if it didn't have all of the A1200's graphics modes.
Hm, I see a lot of complaints about sound not working in this or that (say Skype or Flash) on forums. I've had hardware mixing for most of my Linux life, even with my onboard sound, so I'm not sure how tricky it gets when you *have* to rely on dmix or a sound server like Pulse. I do recall fiddling with dmix slaves (successfully, but I would rather not repeat it). I sometimes run JACK for some audio production apps and I suppose it's best with a hardware channel unto itself.
Would you mind telling me what brand/model your laptop is? I've still got a desktop soundcard with 32 channel hardware mixing (so ALSA-only isn't a problem) but I've been worrying about having to use Pulseaudio one day/in a laptop.
Can't you be both an agnostic and an atheist at the same time -- or, for that matter, an agnostic and a theist?
Agnostic atheist: "I don't claim to know whether or not there is a deity -- so I'm an agnostic. However (or: Therefore), I don't see a reason to believe there is -- so I'm an agnostic atheist."
Agnostic theist: "I don't claim to know whether or not there is a deity -- so I'm an agnostic. However, I have reasons to believe there is -- so I'm an agnostic theist."
From what I've gathered, the "heart" website (I already forgot the name) shows user-generated "platitudes" along with a Facebook "like" feature so people can "like" random bad-assy phrases on their Facebook profiles. It doesn't seem malevolent, though I won't vouch for that.
I second that... I have a Geforce 7950 GT; AFAIK, it's the "beefiest" Nvidia card available for my AGP system. It composits just fine (I'm using an RC of KDE 4.5), and I don't think a glitzy desktop is what I'd get a whole new 'puter for.
They had developed a meditation game for their "Joyboard" game controller (for skiing games & the like, I think) - the goal was simply to sit still. Legend has it they'd play that game when the Amiga OS crashed during development, to calm down.
Wikipedia references this: http://www.bogost.com/games/guru_meditation.shtml
It was great that there were affordable Amigas like the 500, 500+, 600, and 1200, but I suspect they also held the platform back because they weren't as easy to upgrade and most kids didn't have that kind of money anyway. I should've gone with a tower A 4000 for revisiting my Amiga days. Instead I got an A 1200 HD bundled with Photogenics, Personal Paint & other niceties and the Blizzard 030/50 Mhz board with 16 MB additional Fast RAM, now hooked up to that bizarre 1024*1024 px monochrome monitor because my PC VGA monitors don't do the default PAL screenmodes. Yes, a monochrome Amiga =D. It does make for a rather fast-booting text editor. I also got a PCMCIA ethernet card, an external CD-ROM drive, a genlock and other goodies... but haven't got any of that to work so far. Meh.
I never was that big a fan of Intuition/Workbench, to be honest. While WB 3.x finally had proportional fonts and could view icon-less files... you still couldn't push windows off the screen, and I always spent a lot of time digging through a stack of windows to find the right "bring to foreground" widget. (Presumably the "click to front" commodity should've done the trick, and I remember it working on my first (3.0, not 3.1) A 1200... but it doesn't seem to work here.)
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I should think so. Provided you consider AmigaOne "Amiga enough"...
The list on the right? But I mean without additional keypresses/mousework. Just a simple, grouped-by-category list of everything popping up all by itself.
I just wish the initial Applications view already grouped applications by category. Then I'd not feel so tempted to install the Mint menu. As it is, I get a huge confusing blob of unsorted icons, dominated (in my case) by a zillion start menu entries installed by a game via WINE.
I like seeing everything at once by default without manually drilling into categories, but it'd be so much more usable if there were a "paragraph" each for Graphics, Office, Development, etc.
Otherwise I'm quite fond of Gnome 3/Shell. I switch between flexibility and immediacy of KDE and the minimalist elegance of GNOME 3 about evenly.
No. I just "flattened" my music collection from "vinyl rips", "cd rips", "purchases", etc. to a simple artist/album hierarchy -- now Audacious is working okay for me. I do love the simplicity and the near-instantaneous startup. But I find I'm not listening to music I've "forgotten about" any more as it's not as visible as with a constantly displayed library. So I suspect I'll be keeping Clementine around, too.
KDE does have a lot of options I don't need or that don't quite satisfy. But it also has more of those I do need (or want) than any other desktop I've tried...
There were PPC expansion boards, at least for the A1200 and A4000.
No, Commodore didn't (and most of their Amigas were infuriatingly low-specced), but there were expansion boards both with 680x0 and PPC CPUs. Here's one for the Amiga 1200: http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=154
PowerPC... if I'm not completely confused, even the classic Commodore Amigas could be souped up with those (OS 3.x/AGA generation, anyway?)
? Mine are still there. Open the desktop settings and switch it to "Folder View" and/or add one or more Folder View widgets yourself. You can also drag application icons from the launcher to the desktop.
There's a Search Visibility option on the profile editor. "Unchecking this box will prevent your profile from being indexed by most search engines."
Doesn't GNOME Shell use its own compositor (Mutter) instead of Compiz? It might be required to run.
Me too; funnily enough, I've set it up rather like Unity with a vertical hybrid task-manager-with-launchers. Being KDE, though, it's easily malleable to new whims and needs. Plasma is a bit of a assemble-your-own-desktop kit. And I love Kmail and Knode, Kate, K3b, and Dolphin. It looked like a gutted toy version of Konqueror at first, but it can easily be set up as an informative but uncluttered and elegant file manager.
But I did disable Nepomuk/Strigi and the fairly puzzling aggregating notification system. Seriously, I could barely tell what was going on with that thing...
I believe Ubuntu 11.10 will be based on Gnome 3, just with Unity again instead of Gnome Shell. From what I've heard, Gnome Shell will nonetheless be available in the repositories. And you can quite easily try Gnome 3 and Gnome Shell now as they're available through this or that PPA. (I'm a nigh-fulltime KDE user, and my experience with Gnome Shell was brief, but I certainly preferred it to Unity... which I found quite bewildering.)
No problem! Try the Plasma Netbook interface!
I had an A1200, but there were plenty RGB video monitors that worked fine for the traditional PAL and NTSC screenmodes, and the Acorn multisync/mutliscan monitor I had worked fine for those as well as for some of the higher-resolution AGA chipset modes. (Standard PC-type monitors worked fine for some screenmodes, with a scandoubler/flickerfixer between the RGB port and the monitor's VGA plug, but not necessarily for old schooly games.) I don't imagine the A600 had a different monitor port even if it didn't have all of the A1200's graphics modes.
Hm, I see a lot of complaints about sound not working in this or that (say Skype or Flash) on forums. I've had hardware mixing for most of my Linux life, even with my onboard sound, so I'm not sure how tricky it gets when you *have* to rely on dmix or a sound server like Pulse. I do recall fiddling with dmix slaves (successfully, but I would rather not repeat it). I sometimes run JACK for some audio production apps and I suppose it's best with a hardware channel unto itself.
Would you mind telling me what brand/model your laptop is? I've still got a desktop soundcard with 32 channel hardware mixing (so ALSA-only isn't a problem) but I've been worrying about having to use Pulseaudio one day/in a laptop.
There're still many versions of Legend of the Green Dragon on the WWW...
I only hate that I don't have anything appropriate to put on a resume... *g*
Can't you be both an agnostic and an atheist at the same time -- or, for that matter, an agnostic and a theist?
Agnostic atheist: "I don't claim to know whether or not there is a deity -- so I'm an agnostic. However (or: Therefore), I don't see a reason to believe there is -- so I'm an agnostic atheist."
Agnostic theist: "I don't claim to know whether or not there is a deity -- so I'm an agnostic. However, I have reasons to believe there is -- so I'm an agnostic theist."
Makes sense to me, anyway.
From what I've gathered, the "heart" website (I already forgot the name) shows user-generated "platitudes" along with a Facebook "like" feature so people can "like" random bad-assy phrases on their Facebook profiles. It doesn't seem malevolent, though I won't vouch for that.
I second that... I have a Geforce 7950 GT; AFAIK, it's the "beefiest" Nvidia card available for my AGP system. It composits just fine (I'm using an RC of KDE 4.5), and I don't think a glitzy desktop is what I'd get a whole new 'puter for.
They had developed a meditation game for their "Joyboard" game controller (for skiing games & the like, I think) - the goal was simply to sit still. Legend has it they'd play that game when the Amiga OS crashed during development, to calm down.
Wikipedia references this: http://www.bogost.com/games/guru_meditation.shtml
It was great that there were affordable Amigas like the 500, 500+, 600, and 1200, but I suspect they also held the platform back because they weren't as easy to upgrade and most kids didn't have that kind of money anyway. I should've gone with a tower A 4000 for revisiting my Amiga days. Instead I got an A 1200 HD bundled with Photogenics, Personal Paint & other niceties and the Blizzard 030/50 Mhz board with 16 MB additional Fast RAM, now hooked up to that bizarre 1024*1024 px monochrome monitor because my PC VGA monitors don't do the default PAL screenmodes. Yes, a monochrome Amiga =D. It does make for a rather fast-booting text editor. I also got a PCMCIA ethernet card, an external CD-ROM drive, a genlock and other goodies... but haven't got any of that to work so far. Meh.
I never was that big a fan of Intuition/Workbench, to be honest. While WB 3.x finally had proportional fonts and could view icon-less files... you still couldn't push windows off the screen, and I always spent a lot of time digging through a stack of windows to find the right "bring to foreground" widget. (Presumably the "click to front" commodity should've done the trick, and I remember it working on my first (3.0, not 3.1) A 1200... but it doesn't seem to work here.)
Sadly, I never did anything half-way professional with my little Amigas. Made pixel art, composed frankly awful Protracker MODs, some BASIC and Pascal... I enjoyed the demo scene above all. Here're a few videos of The Black Lotus showing off the 68060-expanded Amiga quite artistically.
Rain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi5ijtRlKGI&feature=related
Ocean Machine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns5u3Ac4deM&feature=related
Starstruck: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDrICN4UJoA&feature=related
Still beats "dumb fucks".
...Doesn't it?