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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: 3, Interesting) by everdred on Friday February 21 2014, @04:47PM
>Why is everyone so down on GNOME? Do the people bashing it actually use it or just dislike it on principle?
I used Gnome 3 as my primary desktop for a couple of months last summer before switching back to XFCE in abject frustration. The main problem is that Gnome 3 lacks basic functionality, requiring third-party extensions to recreate basic desktop functionality.
I'm not talking about KDE-style 'every-feature-ever' completeness. I really really liked Gnome 2, which should signal that I'm not an old-school Gnome hater. I watch the progress of the MATE project with hopeful optimism.
I spent countless hours wrangling these problematic extensions as they conflicted with one another, very often crashing and causing Gnome to disable all of them at once, leaving me to try to figure out which ones I had enabled right before the crash. (Here's my extension list from when I last used Gnome 3: http://imgur.com/a/U44Hb [imgur.com]. If you're wondering why it's split into two screenshots, Gnome does not let the user resize that particular window.)
A secondary problem with the extension system reminds me of one of the most annoying things about Firefox: updating the program causes incompatibilities with extensions. Hobbyist extension developers are always a step behind the development of the main environment, and because of the 'core should be small; everything should be a extension' philosophy, functionality can go missing for days or weeks after a major update.
The final straw for me was a day I needed to shut my laptop lid while on battery power and not have the system suspend. Of course there's an extension. Of course it doesn't work anymore. Of course there's a bug open. Of course the Gnome developers removed the functionality that used to allow this to work.
The word we're looking for here is "clusterfuck."