The ellipsized names are due to the obscenely small screen size chosen for the review. Pango automagically ellipses words that don't fit into a given area AFAIK so it will probably remain that if you run at 640x480 you will see the dreaded "..."'s. My only hope is that they fix Pango to not add... if the word is something like gedit which can be truncated to ged... - That in itself is stupid IMHO
it looks like GNOME is now copying MacOSX instead of Windows *eye roll*.
I don't see how it's copying Mac or Windows so I'd love to see how you've come to that conclusion.
I don't use a Mac but I'd love to know if...
Mac has an activity button/menu?
Mac has a single pluggable communications stack like Empathy will provide gnome with?
Mac allows you to zoom from your current document to view all open documents on all desktops in a well presented format?
I'm not trying to troll but good ideas come out closed and open source source and your viewpoints do nothing but perpetuate the false myth that nothing good comes out of the F/OSS community.
In my opinion, the only real catchup they have to do is proper integration with an office suite (OO.org uses non-standard widgets, as does FF for that matter), support of proprietary file formats and then I'd be happy.
If you're seeing such wonderful ideas coming from CHI, USENIX and SIGIR then why not churn some stuff out and see if it sticks to the wall? If people like it - great, if not, you can use it and stop ranting on/.
It doesn't do this when you're using them. This happens when you move to the activities view wherein it's the best way to show all of the running apps and their locations. Closing activities moves it back to the arrangement you left them in.
I'm sure you can appreciate the usefulness of that?
Is there a website I can donate my mom and girlfriend to for Linux usability testing?
I'd love to contribute more to the community and aside from the occasional patch this would be a great way to feed back.
I help my nearest and dearest with their computers and have recently moved my neighbour, mum and girlfriend onto the latest ubuntu release and they'd be all too happy to take part in usability testing.
Perhaps Ubuntu should have something similar to Novel's Better Desktop idea? http://www.betterdesktop.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main
If anyone has any ideas or something already exists than let me know! (no mum jokes please, I'm British!)
I assume you tried logging in and going to the main page? Seriously, I can't see the slashers just removing tagging... although you are one of those anonymous cowards:P
I'm shocked that there was no firewall in place what so ever. McKinnon goes on to say that there was a large number of these "hackers" logged onto the network doing equally questionable research into the DoD computer network.
Can't believe he didn't get a snapshot of all those aliens tho:D
The BBC also have a nice profile on Gary at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4715612.stm
It appears he was using some kind of Remote desktop system for the remote control and for the most part he seems to have just pinged and attempted access using a perl script! Not exactly the "ultimate hacker" that the US and the media seem to be inferring.
I sometimes wonder if Linus just makes these kind of statements to mix things up a bit. KDE and GNOME have made some great leaps and bounds towards a useable desktop in the past 5+ years. Does it really matter? It's not as if one app can't run under the other? I personally like how clean GNOME feels, but I also appreciate that KDE is a great desktop environment as well, especially for people coming from a windows environment. Surely this is just sparking debate, ah bring back the ol Vi versus Emacs debates!
One of the noticeable effects would be that every year or so people will have to retune their TVs and stereos. As the magnetic poles shift so too do its effects on radio waves
care to mention this fantastic media player? I for one am still playing about with an Aireo. Even managed to get a graphical windows error up on its monochrome display. Oh how I love embedded systems with mismatched software
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The ellipsized names are due to the obscenely small screen size chosen for the review. Pango automagically ellipses words that don't fit into a given area AFAIK so it will probably remain that if you run at 640x480 you will see the dreaded "..."'s. My only hope is that they fix Pango to not add ... if the word is something like gedit which can be truncated to ged... - That in itself is stupid IMHO
it looks like GNOME is now copying MacOSX instead of Windows *eye roll*.
I don't see how it's copying Mac or Windows so I'd love to see how you've come to that conclusion. I don't use a Mac but I'd love to know if...
I'm not trying to troll but good ideas come out closed and open source source and your viewpoints do nothing but perpetuate the false myth that nothing good comes out of the F/OSS community. In my opinion, the only real catchup they have to do is proper integration with an office suite (OO.org uses non-standard widgets, as does FF for that matter), support of proprietary file formats and then I'd be happy. If you're seeing such wonderful ideas coming from CHI, USENIX and SIGIR then why not churn some stuff out and see if it sticks to the wall? If people like it - great, if not, you can use it and stop ranting on /.
It doesn't do this when you're using them. This happens when you move to the activities view wherein it's the best way to show all of the running apps and their locations. Closing activities moves it back to the arrangement you left them in. I'm sure you can appreciate the usefulness of that?
no way, I've got free will dammiALL GLORY TO THE PLASMACUTTER
Try using the Windows 7 beta, if you can enter the keygen in less than 7 seconds you shouldn't get any audio
foot? oh so it comes with Gnome then? :D
It starts emacs and removes you from the admin group?
Is there a website I can donate my mom and girlfriend to for Linux usability testing? I'd love to contribute more to the community and aside from the occasional patch this would be a great way to feed back. I help my nearest and dearest with their computers and have recently moved my neighbour, mum and girlfriend onto the latest ubuntu release and they'd be all too happy to take part in usability testing. Perhaps Ubuntu should have something similar to Novel's Better Desktop idea? http://www.betterdesktop.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main If anyone has any ideas or something already exists than let me know! (no mum jokes please, I'm British!)
I assume you tried logging in and going to the main page? :P
Seriously, I can't see the slashers just removing tagging... although you are one of those anonymous cowards
I'm shocked that there was no firewall in place what so ever. McKinnon goes on to say that there was a large number of these "hackers" logged onto the network doing equally questionable research into the DoD computer network.
:D
Can't believe he didn't get a snapshot of all those aliens tho
The BBC also have a nice profile on Gary at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4715612.stm It appears he was using some kind of Remote desktop system for the remote control and for the most part he seems to have just pinged and attempted access using a perl script! Not exactly the "ultimate hacker" that the US and the media seem to be inferring.
I sometimes wonder if Linus just makes these kind of statements to mix things up a bit. KDE and GNOME have made some great leaps and bounds towards a useable desktop in the past 5+ years. Does it really matter? It's not as if one app can't run under the other? I personally like how clean GNOME feels, but I also appreciate that KDE is a great desktop environment as well, especially for people coming from a windows environment. Surely this is just sparking debate, ah bring back the ol Vi versus Emacs debates!
One of the noticeable effects would be that every year or so people will have to retune their TVs and stereos. As the magnetic poles shift so too do its effects on radio waves
care to mention this fantastic media player? I for one am still playing about with an Aireo. Even managed to get a graphical windows error up on its monochrome display. Oh how I love embedded systems with mismatched software