A Look At The New Features Of GNOME 3.26

[duby229]

So you have habits, too.

But split screen is actually older than any graphical desktop. It's in the name of the technique, which used the entire screen and splits it into half. Graphical desktops then took over the screen and divided it into more than just two halves. To hold on to split screens is retro and anachronistic, but you're certainly free to have your habits of course.

That's probably true, but it's also probably for anybody who's been using a computer since the late 90's or earlier. Lets face it, more people are familiar with explorer and its paradigm, but that's due to its nature as a consumer oriented interface. Anybody needing more advanced capability will opt for a split screen as soon as they actually try one.

[bug77]

The new GNOME Control Center display has rolled out! It's looking pretty nice and makes more effective use of the screen real estate.

Holy crap, how much screen real estate was it wasting before?

[sdack]

That's probably true, but it's also probably for anybody who's been using a computer since the late 90's or earlier. Lets face it, more people are familiar with explorer and its paradigm, but that's due to its nature as a consumer oriented interface. Anybody needing more advanced capability will opt for a split screen as soon as they actually try one.

No. If you've been long enough in the business will you've learned how to avoid coping and moving files around, because it's just inefficient and a waste of time. Anyone needing advanced capabilities for this will simply have a developed a bad habit of being very inefficient with files.

[duby229]

No. If you've been long enough in the business will you've learned how to avoid coping and moving files around, because it's just inefficient and a waste of time. Anyone needing advanced capabilities for this will simply have a developed a bad habit of being very inefficient with files.

That's probably also true to some degree, but if you've got more than a single person working, those 2 people are going to need some file management. And when you've got hundreds or thousands of people working together, then what you just described is basically a pipe dream.

[sdack]

Holy crap, how much screen real estate was it wasting before?

It wasn't wasting any before. It was designed to be used on the small screens of mobile phones. Now smart phones have slight better sizes and so it's grown, too. If you're still stuck with an old smart phone and a tiny display or perhaps need reading glasses then it's not that helpful any more.

[sdack]

That's probably also true to some degree, but if you've got more than a single person working, those 2 people are going to need some file management. And when you've got hundreds or thousands of people working together, then what you just described is basically a pipe dream.

I'm guessing you've never worked in a large team before. You don't copy lots of files around. You use version control and you compartmentalise your file system structure. What you don't want is to have thousands of people who are moving files criss-cross directories in split screens. *lol*

[duby229]

I'm guessing you've never worked in a large team before. You don't copy lots of files around. You use version control and you compartmentalise your file system structure. What you don't want is to have thousands of people who are moving files criss-cross directories in split screens. *lol*

Which requires? You guessed it, file management.

[JPFSanders]

I'm guessing you've never worked in a large team before. You don't copy lots of files around. You use version control and you compartmentalise your file system structure. What you don't want is to have thousands of people who are moving files criss-cross directories in split screens. *lol*

I know you're trolling, I want you to know that what you're doing is boring, please prove you're clever with your efforts, and write something funnier that entertain us, what you write comes up as sad and very, very boring.

As for the desktop, I'm glad that we have many desktops, and we're not forced to use the pile of half-chew vomit that is Gnome 3, it managed something not many graphical environments have ever even gotten close to, it is worse than Finder on MacOS.

[starshipeleven]

That's probably true, but it's also probably for anybody who's been using a computer since the late 90's or earlier. Lets face it, more people are familiar with explorer and its paradigm, but that's due to its nature as a consumer oriented interface. Anybody needing more advanced capability will opt for a split screen as soon as they actually try one.

Wrong, advanced users don't usually drag-and-drop as it has crap accuracy, so double-screen filemanagers don't get much traction.
Advanced users use either keyboard shortcuts (ctrl-c ctrl-v) or for large amounts of files they rightclick to open file transfer programs (this on windows mostly)

[Frogging101]

It wasn't wasting any before.

It's wasting it now. Why is it that one has to scroll to see the entirety of that list of 12 WiFi networks on a 2560x1440 screen? We gave up the task bar and menu bars for this? So we could double the amount of empty space between even fewer elements and stuff the rest into a hamburger menu?

It was designed to be used on the small screens of mobile phones.

Then what is it doing on a desktop? Maybe the user interface on a desktop should be designed to be used on a desktop.