SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
joekiser writes:
"Antoine Jacoutot has given a status update for GNOME users of OpenBSD, including a short video. The GNOME release has been updated to 3.10.2, and auto-mounting of devices is now supported through a new helper program, toad. Now is a great time for desktop users to test the upcoming OpenBSD release. The ports tree was recently locked for stability testing ahead of the 5.5 release, meaning that recent -CURRENT builds are very close to what will be released in May. Antoine also addresses the upcoming issues non-Linux systems face with GNOME, such as the upcoming hard dependency on systemd."
[ED Note: I ran an OpenBSD router box years ago when tinkering about with an old PII with four NICs seemed worthwhile. The OS lived up to it's rep, but it never occurred to me to use it for a desktop system. Are any Soylentils using OpenBSD for a GNOME-based workstation?]
(Score: 5, Interesting) by joekiser on Friday February 21 2014, @11:23AM
I have bashed Gnome 3 in the past, but it took about two days of actually giving it a fair shot before it became the preferred desktop on my 12" Thinkpad. Like KDE, it needs tweaking initially to get working to my tastes. I use Tweak Tool to configure things that aren't available in the default settings, like the size of the titlebar, fonts, and font DPI. I add on things like Weather, Caffeine, and the drop down Terminal emulator (accessible by pressing the key above the Tab key), as well as an add on to remove the stupid animations. Switching applications is great, and using a taskbar seems antiquated.
I can see where people using large monitors would hate it. Gnome 3 out of the box is geared towards small screens like laptops and touch-screen devices. It almost certainly requires the Windows key to be productive, which my Model M at the desktop does not have. Still, the Gnome 3 approach focused on stability and speed first, and incrementally adding new features with each release; this is in contrast to the KDE 4.0 fiasco which is still prone to crashing after all these years if you resize a panel the wrong way.
Debt is the currency of slaves.
(Score: 1) by kbahey on Sunday February 23 2014, @03:34AM
I have never used Gnome as my desktop. Always used KDE, and was happy with 3.5. After KDE 4.0 was released, Kubuntu's initial KDE releases (the non-LTS ones) were a complete disaster. I almost considered moving away from KDE, be it Gnome (shudder!) or XFCE. However, the next release fixed the issues, and I have been on KDE ever since.
If KDE screws up again, I am moving to XFCE or LXDE or something lightweight.
Yakuake on KDE pops up a terminal when you hit a certain hot key.
2bits.com, Inc: Drupal, WordPress, and LAMP performance tuning [2bits.com].