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| GNOME OS detailed: new application framework, SDK, and more |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-08-08 22:29:47 |
| The future of GNOME - an interesting subject. GNOME 3 has been out and about for a while, and it hasn't exactly been a smashing success. One of the efforts to take GNOME to the next level is what the team refers to as GNOME OS - but in reality, it's a set of improvements to GNOME that are just as interesting to GNOME-the-desktop-environment. |
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| RE: They certain are ambitious... |
| By mksoft on 2012-08-09 07:38:27 |
| For size constraints (size on 1st install CD). |
 - Score: 2 |
| RE[4]: Build it, and they will come - to a dead end. |
| By jayrulez on 2012-08-09 09:02:53 |
| Cinnamon is not a fork of GNOME but of Gnome Shell. |
| - Score: 5 |
| RE[3]: Build it, and they will come |
| By jayrulez on 2012-08-09 09:06:14 |
| Your hardware must be very special or your installation is broken. I've been using unity on multiple computers without issue for quite a while. |
| - Score: 1 |
| Average user |
| By Gone fishing on 2012-08-09 09:18:29 |
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Firstly I think that Gnome are trying out some interesting ideas but... I also think they are chasing a myth of the average user and alienating their real users. For example from the proposed changes in nautilus such as removing F3 split view (because the average user might accidentally press 3 and be confused) Gnome seems to think the average user is a dis-coordinated idiot. Gnome needs to realise that the average Linux user is more tech savvy than the average Windows user not less. |
| - Score: 9 |
| RE[2]: no real alternates |
| By Laurence on 2012-08-09 11:10:40 |
| What's wrong with KDE at the moment? Most of the defaults seem alright to me but you weren't clear on which settings specifically you don't like so I might be missing your point |
| - Score: 3 |
| Maniacs ... |
| By WakaJawaka on 2012-08-09 11:49:20 |
| The handful of people who call the shots at Gnome are all Apple fanbois. They love everything 'Apple' and especially the totalitarian who ran the corporation for 15 years. Like Jobs they have utter contempt for their own user base. Like Jobs they delight in the in-transparency and the muddled-up world of corporate decision making. Like Jobs they pursue their aims with a persistence that shows the true maniac. But unlike Jobs they don't have the brain-washing machine of corporate advertising at their disposal, which will ultimately lead to their downfall. Most long-term users of Gnome are still capable to take a step back, look at Gnome 3 and recognize it for the mess that it is. Apple users on the other hand are wallowing in their prisons and are uncritically happy with everything the corporation does to them. A true cult, thanks to devious corporate advertising. Still, nothing will stop team Gnome from pigheadedly pursuing their course. Not even the death of the entire project. They will simply 'move on' and continue their harmful work elsewhere because the corporate world loves authoritarians who suffer from 'visions'. For types like that there's always a place somewhere. |
| - Score: 9 |
| RE: Maniacs ... |
| By Soulbender on 2012-08-09 12:48:52 |
| Bitter much? |
| - Score: 1 |
| RE: Maniacs ... |
| By SaschaW on 2012-08-09 14:13:30 |
| Breath slowly, man! |
| - Score: 1 |
| Heard it all Before |
| By segedunum on 2012-08-09 14:16:42 |
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> These people have a vision They always have a vision. Every year in fact. Nothing ever happens. This GnomeOS has been talked about for years, and in many ways it's already here because Gnome is effectively Linux-only now anyway. You hear stuff like 10x10 (10% of the desktop market by 2010) and various other things (I think they even had a 20x20) and they just don't happen. Self-congratulating echo chamber I believe it was called. |
| - Score: 9 |
| RE: One thing they should change |
| By segedunum on 2012-08-09 14:26:54 |
| Trust me, that's exactly what they're trying to do - while claiming that's not what they're doing. |
| - Score: 5 |
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