Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
If only people would *think* before writing such articles. Or just ask. Or just learn about free software development processes and what is a commit in a VCS.
Debian has *never* switched to Xfce by default. Ever.
In Debian wheezy, which is the current target of developers' efforts,
tasksel *always* defaulted to GNOME. In Debian unstable, which is the testbed for packages to enter Debian wheezy, tasksel never defaulted to Xfce. Ever.
The *git repository* for tasksel development has a commit by my friend Joey Hess which switches to Xfce. THIS WAS NEVER COMPILED AS A PACKAGE. Is that clear?
The commit that's cited by this article was exactly meant for to keep with GNOME as a default for Debian. We needed to upload a new release of tasksel because the package got a release critical bug that needed to be fixed.
In order to make this upload and still have the package acceptable by Debian release managers, the "Xfce default" commit needed to be temporarily reverted.
Which is what I (Christian Perrier, [email protected], Debian developer since 2002) did :
- revert the Xfce default
- include a patch for a release critical bug
- build tasksel with that release critical fix
And, a few days later, I reintroduced the change that
defaults to Xfce, in tasksel's git. To respect the work of Joey Hess and leave the issue to when it belongs : after the release of Debian wheezy.
As of now, tasksel has *never ever* been built with Xfce as default.
So, please, pretty please, stop publishing misinformation about things you don't understand and, for some people who commented in this thread, please stop commenting about things you don't understand.
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Originally posted by a user View Posti am losing my patience with you. NO ONE EVER SAID THIS!!!
Actually, it seems as if he's not interested in a discussion at all -- obviously. Because he was told that there are extensions which bring back his sacred task bar.
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Originally posted by BO$$ View PostI am simply baffled by the fact that people argue that going to the corner and then to centre again to click on a small version of your window is faster than having a taskbar.
if you are too inapt to read posts then you shouldn't write posts!
How can you say that doing all that is an improvement over the concept of the taskbar?
How can you not see that it's slower? It requires more movement of the mouse. How can doing more for the same thing be an improvement? Why didn't they just leave the taskbar alone.
most of the time it just wastes space! for the moments i need to switch i either press super and then click the program or i driectly use alt tab. i take the extra milisecond for this over a permanent taskbar to get rid of this space wasting and ugly thing!
for me it is one of the BIGGEST improvements ever. FOR ME!
it is your right to not share my opinion on this. but because YOU cannot understand how OTHERS may like it it is at least ignorant to call the WHOLE gnome shell concept shit ONLY BECAUSE OF THIS LITTLE annnoyance for you.
They wanted change for the sake of change. To seem that they are improving the UI by having revolutionary ideas or something. The taskbar is a good concept that doesn't need change. Leave it there!Last edited by a user; 12 November 2012, 02:17 PM.
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Great, just in time with gnome's decision to finally remove "fallback"...
This decision is going to be challenged again soon. Gnome3 has nothing whatsoever to do with gnome2, as desktop environments are concerned; from an usage point of view, it is the same as if the distro suddenly decided to go with KDE, CDE or whatever.
At least Mint tried to mitigate the mess with many forks to restore the "classic" experience on top of gnome3.
Also the graphic requirements of gnome3 are a recipe for disaster, especially for a distro which emphasizes conservative "stable" choices.
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Originally posted by oleid View PostI read the whole thread and all your posts. Yet, I don't see your point. Moving the mouse to the top left corner is fast and clicking a large thumbnail of a window is also fast due to it's size. If you want it really fast, however, use the keyboard. <Alt><Tab> is your friend. I know that you don't have your keyboard with you all the time. But what could you do what needs a fast window switching, but no keyboard input?
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Originally posted by BO$$ View PostYes but if you like your mouse it's a king size pain in the fucking ass. Switching between applications with the mouse is so horrible.
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Gnome3 and SystemD
Hi *!
Gnome works quite fine without SystemD. I use Gnome 3.4 on gentoo and there is no trace of systemd installed at all.
BTW. From my point of view Gnome3 is faster than Gnome2 -- faster startup and faster to work with, as much more is controllable via keyboard. Hell, even application startup only requires a keypress less: <Windows> + the first few letters of the app + return. On gnome2 it was <Alt>+<F2> + first few letters + return after some (short) time period, until the list of apps was generated.
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Originally posted by randomizer View PostThe problem with extensions is that they are hacks which are tightly coupled to a version of GNOME.
2. Same as all the millions of custom GUI's or additions in MMORPG and other games (I find this idea brilliant by GNOME btw.)
3. And other DE have these gadgets or widgets and other stuff they add onto the desktop?
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Originally posted by Sidicas1. When it breaks a system it's much harder to unbreak. On a server that needs 99.9999% uptime, this is a potential nightmare.
2. Doesn't support, and the devs of systemd have said they will likely never support... anything other than the Linux kernel. Attempts were made to get systemd to work on other kernels besides Linux and these patches were REJECTED by upstream. So systemd is almost a form of Linux kernel "lock-in". Debian needs to support the kFreeBSD kernel as well and it's a lot simpler to choose something that works on everything than maintain two different standards for the boot process (by default). If systemd could ever work with kernels other than Linux, then it's far more likely to be the default in Debian.
3. The performance gains of systemd quickly evaporate if the system is booted from an SSD.
2. Yes this is effectly a lockin on Linux. But what is wrong with that? Sure it hits a snag when debian is trying be distroing everything but the kitchensink.
3. Systemds fast boot is more than a gimmick. It will cause less down time in unforseen events and during upgrades. Thats fine but nothing special. Having fast boot is the prime feature for infotainment systems in eg. cars. When you start the car, you expect feedback within 3 seconds. That is easy on systemd. Go look at the documentation and tools. It is a pleasure.
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Originally posted by freedam View Post2) There is the "dash to dock extension" that solves entirely your problem (i say this for others, i know you'll answer with the "i don't want to use an extension blah blah" refrain, in fact i assume you are using compiz alone or KDE with no panels, plasmoids etc.)
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