GNOME 3.6 Released 230
kthreadd writes "Gnome 3.6 is out. The announcement reads: 'The GNOME Project is proud to present GNOME 3.6, the third update to the 3.x series. This latest version of GNOME 3 includes a number of new features and enhancements, as well as many bug fixes and minor improvements. Together, they represent a significant upgrade to the GNOME 3 user experience.' Andreas Nilsson, President of the GNOME Foundation, said: 'The GNOME Foundation is proud to present this latest GNOME release, and I would like to congratulate the GNOME community on its achievement.' He described the release as 'an important milestone in our mission to bring a free and open computing environment to everyone.' New applications include Clocks and Boxes. Clocks is a world time clock, which allows you to keep an eye on what the local time is around the world. Boxes allows you to connect to other machines, either virtual or remote. For developers there's the new GtkLevelBar widget in GTK+, and GtkEntry can now use Pango attributes."
Don't waste your time with GNOME 3.6 (Score:5, Insightful)
It still sucks. Stick with MATE [mate-desktop.org].
Re:Happily running KDE (Score:5, Insightful)
Same thing when you are forced on OSX. Seriously, KDE has the best window manager bar none. How no one has gone postal on the MS and apple folks responsible for that part of their respective interfaces s a mystery to me.
Re:Amazing! (Score:4, Insightful)
they would not have that problem if they did not release a totally broken chunk of shit in the first place
Re:obligatory comments (Score:4, Insightful)
"Personally, I'm looking forward to checking out the new GNOME."
I seriously have better things to do tonight than install a slightly less broken DM with better accessibility features touted as one of its two bragging points.
Re:After years (Score:3, Insightful)
Oh, sorry. I didn't realise you enjoy wasting time manually configuring such basic system services.
Re:Amazing! (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm pretty sure that Gnome Shell isn't designed to work on a touchscreen. Hot corners are useless on a touchscreen, but Gnome Shell makes use of hot corners, so it's pretty obvious that it was designed first and foremost as a mouse-based UI.
They have done a few things to ensure that touchscreens aren't broken (e.g. the big icons), but the keyboard and mouse are obviously the primary input devices.
The whole "Gnome sucks because it is a desktop environment but was designed for a touchscreen" thing is a complete strawman argument.
Re:After years (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:obligatory comments (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm happy enough with Gnome 3 as implemented in Fedora, and I thought Unity in Ubuntu was pretty decent. Neither is flawless, but I prefer either of them to any other desktop UI I've tried.
I can understand the frustration with a sudden change in the Gnome UI. But I don't understand the depth or breadth of the rage.
Re:I have been using it for awhile (Score:2, Insightful)
The Gnome team broke a bunch of stuff in the name of "progress" while removing useful features. Gee, I wonder why people had an adverse reaction. It's like they actually wanted to use their computer for applications instead of being forced to learn a new interface with less functionality.
... while also creating a very nice, slick, and minimalist workflow. Now almost every feature that was removed is either back in core (albeit adapted to the new desktop), available as an extension or as an option in gnome-tweak-tool. Now I'd understand if people were complaining about still missing feature XYZ or saying how the new workflow is less optimal than the old one for managing windows, but that's not what's happening. Instead there's a whole bunch of people who seem to take any GNOME article as a chance to complain loudly without citing any specifics and mention how they switched to something entirely different without even mentioning what it does better. That's why I characterized the complaints as "someone moved my food dish." No content, just barking.
Re:I have been using it for awhile (Score:2, Insightful)
Heh. So the GNOME haters are going to host an indefinite protest to try and drown out any GNOME-related discussion in verbal noise? Well that sounds super mature. The whole GNOME3 thing is a textbook case of the GPL serving one of its intended purposes: Letting the users fork the code if they don't like the direction the project is going. That happened. The fork is called Mate. There's no need for any more animosity.
Re:Amazing! (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Amazing! (Score:4, Insightful)
The thing is, there's broken by bugs, and then there's broken by design. Gnome3 is so broken by design that I've never even noticed any bugs. And the designers don't appear to have noticed that it's broken by design, so there's no way they'll fix the bugs.
Yes, the same thing happened with the KDE3->KDE4 upgrade, which is why I even *care* about the fate of Gnome. And KDE4 is still broken by design. Not as badly broken as Gnome3, but it "broken by design" bugs don't tend to get fixed, because the implementers can't see the problems. I see no indication that the Gnome crew is any different. They've even promised to remove the capability of making the changes that various people have implemented to make the system usable. ("Tweaks", etc.)
I sometimes suspect that both the KDE and the Gnome designers are in the pay of Microsoft, but I *trust* that's mere paranoia. It's too much like normal human behavior to need that kind of an explanation.