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The chief penguin on Gnome 3

Posted: 09 Jul 2012, 00:23
by viking60
Linus Torvalds has some views on Gnome3 and the unofficial extensions - And boy do I agree.
https://plus.google.com/102150693225130 ... koAaLDpF4i
I have to say, I used to think that the "extensions.gnome.org" approach to fixing the deficiencies in gnome3 was really cool. It made me go "Ahh, now I can fix the problems I had".

But it turns out to be a major pain, when it basically ends up as a really magical way to customize your desktop, which breaks randomly and has no sane way to do across machines. And the extensions seem to randomly break when you update the system, so they don't work as well as they would if they just came with the base system.

Jupp aint that the truth :s

Who do I need to word my grandmother dislikes to get standard font size and panel options, instead of having to wade through this kind of "unsupported and random extensions that look ugly as hell and break randomly" crap? Maybe if I told people I was going blind, and claimed the font size was an "accessibility" feature, people would care? Never mind that I want to make the fonts smaller.

:B
(As you can see his words do not pass our bad words filter - but since it is the chief penguin I'll translate : he is saying Who do i need to f u c k.....)
Gnome3 could be good if they made many of the extensions official and supported them. It is something about the attitude that does not compute....

Re: The chief penguin on Gnome 3

Posted: 09 Jul 2012, 18:26
by dedanna1029
viking60 wrote:
Who do I need to f u c k to get standard font size and panel options, instead of having to wade through this kind of "unsupported and random extensions that look ugly as hell and break randomly" crap? Maybe if I told people I was going blind, and claimed the font size was an "accessibility" feature, people would care? Never mind that I want to make the fonts smaller.

Yep. FINALLY, someone agrees with me, and is calling it for the piece of SH!T it is.

viking60 wrote:Gnome3 could be good if they made many of the extensions official and supported them. It is something about the attitude that does not compute....

Oh, you mean the attitude that says "here, we'll do it for you the way we want, not what you want, because you're stupid and can't"?