Shuttleworth's Take On GNOME 3.0, Coordination with Debian 320
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suka writes "In a fresh interview with derStandard.at, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth talks about GNOME 3.0 — its strengths, but also about what he thinks is missing. He also mentions ongoing talks for a common meta-release-cycle with Debian which could delay the next LTS."
Yay! Fixing 100 Paper Cuts! (Score:4, Informative)
https://launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts [launchpad.net]
Re:Not the KDE4 way, plase (Score:4, Informative)
What went wrong was that distro put in the new version far too early.
I have never really liked gnome... It always seems to consume the ram like a windows desktop...
Re:Not the KDE4 way, plase (Score:3, Informative)
Since 4.2, KDE works just fine. I use it all day long and have no trouble with it.
The early releases were majorly broken though. Why they made it into the distros is beyond me.
Re:Not the KDE4 way, plase (Score:5, Informative)
OSX 10.0 was crap, hell even Microsoft needed 3 years after Vista (with some major architecture changes).
It just takes too much time the achieve feature/stability/usability parity with the old system no matter how needed those major under-the-hood changes were.
So sorry, Gnome will take the same path as everyone else and sites will rush to declare 3.0 "A Major Disappointment". What you can hope for, though, is that distros won't be so braindead to drop Gnome 2 immediately after the 3.0 release.
Honestly, there was a time when distributions were concerned about providing a usable user experience instead of just grabbing all the latest stuff, add their configuration tools and ship that crap. See PulseAudio, great idea, terrible execution on every single fucking distro I've tried.
Re:The only thing I got out of TFA... (Score:3, Informative)
Or you could do what MacOS does to hide the unix filesystem from the user.
Actually, they will. (Score:3, Informative)
Linus did.
Re:"folder" considered harmful (Score:4, Informative)
MS-DOS has DIR command
LOL. Speaking of consistency (or the lack thereof), consider the following Powershell commands and their respective aliases (I'm going by memory here so someone correct me if I'm incomplete):
The default aliases seem to include both DOS and *nix commands, and DOS (or some stench of it), seems to be alive and well despite being officially killed off when Win2000 was released.
So, in the Microsoft world, we've gone from using 'directory' in DOS, to 'folder' in Windows, to 'Items', 'Locations' and '-type Directory' in PowerShell. No wonder everyone's confused. ;-)
Re:The only thing I got out of TFA... (Score:1, Informative)
During my short adventure with Win7 I'm pretty sure I also noticed that subfolders of My Documents are now called "libraries".
Re:The only thing I got out of TFA... (Score:4, Informative)
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeZeitgeist [gnome.org]