Oh gawd... not another KDE3-type thingy :P
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Originally posted by markg85 View Postinteresting development but not so good.
Keeping old code (gtk2) alive when their is a way better gtk3 version is just being plain ignorant. They should fork the latest gnome version, drop the default gui and develop and upgrade the fallback mode. In the end that will also benefit Gnome..
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Originally posted by markg85 View Postinteresting development but not so good.
Keeping old code (gtk2) alive when their is a way better gtk3 version is just being plain ignorant. They should fork the latest gnome version, drop the default gui and develop and upgrade the fallback mode. In the end that will also benefit Gnome. Note that this isn't the first time a "fork" is attempted. A couple years ago their where a bunch of patches that gnome wouldn't accept. Those where all put on a site and where kept up to date for some time. It never came to a full fork and it eventually died.
as for "dash" .. That's both smart and stupid of canonical. Smart, the use of QML since that way they both have software and hardware rendering depending on the used hardware. That's very smart! However, they are using a Gnome environment with Gnome apps but with this they add a huge Qt dependency.. That is not so smart. But hey, they can't rely on cairo for this stuff
Yeah, two interesting developments but both aren't that good in their current form.
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I find it funny how alot of people here are bashing this Gnome fork. Saying you should work on this or work on that, blah blah blah,
When I doubt most or any of you are even Gtk or Qt developers. I spent 8 years writing code for Gnome and the last 4 writing code
for Qt/Kde. And I have been a kde-look, gnome-look, ....... Editor for many years.
The Mate Desktop developers are working on something they feel is worth while. And there doing it for free.
So your not allowed to have an opinion on how you feel would be a better use of there time.Last edited by zester; 31 August 2011, 09:09 AM.
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Originally posted by zester View PostThe Mate Desktop developers are working on something they feel is worth while. And there doing it for free. So your(sic) not allowed to have an opinion on how you feel would be a better use of there time.
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you are funny ^^
Originally posted by _cas_ View PostIf the panel was fixed (mostly get rid of the stupid hard-coded 3 regions and let me put launchers where *I* want them and stopped wasting precious panel space reminding me what my name is), i'd be reasonably happy switching to Gnome 3 Fallback at home. Also, I want my applets. And I want the clock on the far right of the top menu, not in the middle of the screen. and i want the systray on the far right of the bottom panel, right next to my desktop pager.
Originally posted by _cas_ View PostI guess theming is important if you care about that kind of thing. I don't very much. I just want a convenient way of launching common apps and displaying various status applets about my system. I don't care much what it looks like as long as it isn't garish, doesn't have distracting animations, and doesn't get in my way.
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Originally posted by Nevertime View PostIts good to see people still have that angry passion when it comes to gui's. I find gnome 2 and KDE perfectly usable, and gnome 3 is coming along great. What we really need next is port of gnome 1! No reason.... Just completes the set.
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Originally posted by zester View PostI find it funny how alot of people here are bashing this Gnome fork. Saying you should work on this or work on that, blah blah blah,
When I doubt most or any of you are even Gtk or Qt developers. I spent 8 years writing code for Gnome and the last 4 writing code
for Qt/Kde. And I have been a kde-look, gnome-look, ....... Editor for many years.
The Mate Desktop developers are working on something they feel is worth while. And there doing it for free.
So your not allowed to have an opinion on how you feel would be a better use of there time.
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