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GNOME 3.8 - Jon McCann talks of future in GNOME

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The GNOME Project is proud to announce the imminent release of GNOME 3.8 in less than two weeks. As with every release, there are many new features and technical improvements. We asked William Jon McCann, a GNOME designer, about the direction of the project and what he is anticipating for GNOME in the future.

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Comments (9)

kikinovak ·
The GNOME desktop has a bright future behind it.
djohnston ·
Quoting:The future of GNOME is pretty clear. The world's premier and, in fact, only truly free software operating system.


Say what? I must have missed the boat. Not only is Gnome an operating system, it is the only one that is "truly free". Hmmm. And some say these guys live in their own world.
gus3 ·
And some would speak rightly.
tuxchick ·
When I read articles like this, I always think of the ending of "The Wrath of Aguirre." Aguirre the wannabe-despot and conqueror, floating downriver on a disintegrating raft carrying the corpses of his companions, making boastful speeches to monkeys how he is going to found a dynasty and rule the new world.
djohnston ·
Quoting:The Wrath of Aguirre


I had never heard of this one. Had to look it up. Looks like an outstanding movie.
notbob ·
I think the problem is epitomized by this statement:

"For me, one of the things that I'm quite happy about is to see a lot of focus on improving the experience for application developers"

IOW, screw the user, let's make developers happy. I've always said ever increasing bloat and long term degradation is the result of pointless development for development's sake. "Lookee me! I made a new thingie! Lookee me!". Now they're literally bragging on how much easier it is to "develop". Develop what? Improved development capability? See a pattern? A bad pattern?

nb
Steven_Rosenber ·
I'm hoping that the new "classic mode" (or whatever they're calling it) delivered via GNOME Shell Extensions brings back an environment that pleases GNOME 2 users.

While I'm using GNOME Shell, I acknowledge that there's a lot of life left in the traditional menu, persistent application and file/folder icons, and user configurability.
tuxchick ·
djohnston, it is a fabulous movie. Klaus Kinski is perfect as the demented, treacherous Aguirre.
JaseP ·
Quoting: The GNOME desktop has a bright future behind it.


It's called a back-light,...and all LCD monitors have them,...

Oh,... and bright future BEHIND it,... very good, I almost missed that...

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