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Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”

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Re: Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”

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Post by BoorishBears »

arjie wrote: post #14
BoorishBears wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The reduced-resolution thing has been a trick for ages, I just refused to use the 4k screen I paid a premium for at half res with horrid (seriously, horrid complete with artifacts and fuzz, I even patched xrandr to disable bi-cubic filtering trying to make it ok and still couldn't stand it) looking text aliasing. I'm impressed you'd call that "pretty much perfect and comparable (if not better) to macOS with a recent…

He hasn't scaled the 4k screen. You can tell because it's eDP or Embedded Display Port . That's something they use on laptops for the internal screen.

I mentioned in another reply, that's just the flip side of the fixes I mentioned (and it's one of the things I tried before digging into xrandr's source to figure out why it was filtering).

It also has the same problems with aliasing, blurriness, and artifacts (the blurriness and bad hinting become more pronounced and the artifacts take a back seat)

Re: Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”

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Post by Karunamon »

soperj wrote: post #30
Karunamon wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except for the fact that it monopolizes the whole screen? Windows 8's start screen was panned for the same reason; there's no reason to send the user's state to the background for something that objectively does not require it. An example of doing the same thing, the Right Way, would be Quicksilver or Spotlight on MacOS. What's the use case for the launcher (activities menu) on G3? If you've invoked it, either by thr…

What's the advantage of just using a little bar on the screen to search for what you want to launch, or close, or switch to? Because when I'm on windows 7 and looking for what I want to switch to on the start bar, i'm definitely not using the rest of the screen for anything. I'm looking for the right little icon to click. Tell me why it's the "Right Way".

For one, you can look between the start menu and and an open window. More than once I've need to run some obscure command or some program I didn't even know was installed, and I can just glance over to my documentation to make sure I've got it right.

My eyes have muscles that allow me to move them where required. Most people do. They don't need the entire desktop blanked out for a single UI element that might take up ~10% of the space.

Again, we're right back to mobile-first use cases- everything is fullscreen. Except that nobody is using G3 on mobile devices, so why design in that fashion? What's the user benefit?

Re: Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”

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Post by najati83 »

If you are reading this: I installed Fedora recently because I wanted to try it and I found the partitioning process to be absurdly complicated, compared to that of Debian or Ubuntu (ubiquity). I have several partitions of several operating systems in this disk and I was hesitant to continue because it wasn't very clear what the partitioner was about to do with my disk. Unfortunately that was months ago so I can't really describe what the problems were.

Re: Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”

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Post by broodbucket »

If anyone's interested in trying Fedora I'd suggest checking out Korora, it bundles the Fedora base with nice themes and some essential packages/repositories that Fedora refuses to bundle based on their free software guidelines (like VLC) and some more sensible defaults (like Firefox as default browser instead of Epiphany).

https://kororaproject.org/

Re: Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”

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Post by cat199 »

najati83 wrote: post #34

If you are reading this: I installed Fedora recently because I wanted to try it and I found the partitioning process to be absurdly complicated, compared to that of Debian or Ubuntu (ubiquity). I have several partitions of several operating systems in this disk and I was hesitant to continue because it wasn't very clear what the partitioner was about to do with my disk. Unfortunately that was months ago so I can't re…

a few releases back they 'improved' the partitioning wizard..

(compare to RHEL6/CentOS, which was essentially the old code)

this is the result.

yay progress!

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