GNOME To Start Using Codenames 46
prisoninmate writes: A discussion between GNOME developers and users during the annual GUADEC conference lead to potential code names for the desktop environment, starting with the upcoming September release, GNOME 3.18, which might be dubbed Gothenburg. They decided to codename the September releases after the city where the GUADEC conference took place, as explained above, and the March releases after the city where the GNOME.Asia Summit will take place.
So we won't know it's Gnome until the release? (Score:2)
So we won't know it's Gnome until the release?
Very, very, sneaky!
I suggest the first code name be "Zurich"; my second choice is "Gringott"... don't tell anyone, we wouldn't want them knowing we were talking about Gnome!
Everything you need to know about GNOME 3 (Score:1)
There are two screenshots that will show you everything you need to know about GNOME 3 and the disaster that it has been.
The first screenshot [wikimedia.org] shows Gedit, a simple graphical text editor for the GNOME environment. This is what it looked like prior to the GNOME 3.
The second screenshot [wikimedia.org] also shows Gedit, but as part of GNOME 3.
Yes, that's right. GNOME 3 somehow managed to completely fuck up the UI of something as basic as a simple graphical text editor. It took a program that was usable, and turned it into a mo
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But why would you hit enter? Since it searches while you type, what other reason is there to hit Enter, unless you are done with it? Edit the line you need and if you need the search box as it was, press ctrl+f again.
There is little use of it just hanging there. If you need to see what contains, it is already highlighted in the text, if you need to type something there, you already have lost the focus and will be forced to click in it or press ctrl+f anyway.
Also, if you don't mind having search dialog up al
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Holy fuck... Does anyone actually use Gnome 3, or is it just a playground for a bunch of people who wish they weren't born after all of the good GUI concepts had been discovered and want to move ahead as if there are still better GUI concepts to be discovered and we all just need to get used to them?
I mean, the original goal was "come up with GUI widgets that are intuitive enough that you don't have to teach people how to use them." However, we've already done that, so they seem to have chosen a different
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What exactly is wrong with a task bar and a start menu? It works. People know how to use it. Why fuck that up, especially to replace it with something that seemingly no one is able to understand the vision behind. Even you haven't told me what is actually better about Gnome 3, other than it being a "blank slate" as if failing to start out with a usable configuration is a good thing. Indeed, I wouldn't even call the Firefox which had to be loaded up with plugins to be a worthwhile web browser a good thi
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Alberich. OK, so that's a dwarf.
A homicidal dwarf who hides the treasure and turns into a dragon.
Sounds about right.
Yay (Score:5, Insightful)
So glad they sorted out all the other issues and devoted time to what really matters.
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When I first got into computers, the startup sequence was hard-coded into the kernel, as was the command shell. The idea of plug-replaceable shells and filesystems came later, along with customizable startup sequences and other buffet-style services.
I'm beginning to feel like we've stopped moving forward and have started moving backwards.
changeling, starring angelina jolie, will continue (Score:5, Insightful)
Switching to codenames seems unnecessary. Version 3 was completely unrecognizable as Gnome already.
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I feel the need to reply "me too" here, just so that perhaps some people not reading score 0 comments (since, by default, they're not shown) will see your post.
Damn Slashdot and its war on Anonymous Cowards.
Could be worse, Fesora 19, Schroding"er's Release (Score:3)
It could have been worse. Fedora 19 was the "Schrödinger's Cat" release, and it broke number of software installation tools . Many old scripts in bash, ruby, or perl would read "/etc/issue.net" or "/etc/fedora-release", and now had to parse the Unicode content with a single quote and two text words embedded in the text. For many old, simply written shell scripts, in particular, it broke them _very_ badly.
For many of us, Fedora 19 was known as the "Bobby Tables" release. ( https://xkcd.com/327/ [xkcd.com] )
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I just read the discussion over su reimplementation in systemd, Funny how people insist that old [UNIX] code is not broken and any evidence of contrary are met with denial.
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Quite true.
Unfortunately a lot of projects pick overly clever code names and get themselves all tangled up with existing popular search terms, to the detriment of both.
Transparent Default Terminal (Score:1)
Because version numbers were simple... (Score:5, Insightful)
...and easy to understand. Obviously they have no place in GNOME.
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No, but I believe there's an extension for it. The problem is that they broke the extension with the Smelly Skunk release.
Featurekill, Nodesktop, Ignoreusers... (Score:4, Funny)
Sabbotaged, Cantshutdown, Removefunctionality, Singlepanefile, Cinnamonh8tr, Activiteslongword, Formoverfunction, Lostourway.
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Mac1984
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WeJustLostOurUserBase, GnomeIsGone, WeDontEvenReadYourFeedbacks, ClickThatShit, YouBetterBeBlind, VivaLaUX, ...
Dibs on "Chrome Falcon" (Score:1)
Codenames (Score:1)
pronunciation (Score:1)
I hope they can pronounce it. It's s.t. like [yotebur], at least that's what I recall from when I was there ten or twelve years ago. If English speaking people pronounce it the way it's spelled, the Vikings may start raiding our coasts.
Ok, just found it in the Wikipedia article, and it's [jtbrj]: that's a front rounded vowel in the first syllable, and a sort of [i] ('ee') on the end. I guess my pronunciation was/is pretty bad. But not as bad as it would be if I tried to use the spelling (and my English