Gnome3 devs never asked for feedback. Gnome3 devs never cared. But they sure do like to write blog posts about hip stuff.
I never liked Gnome3, I don't know why, it might be because it uses way too much chrome space at the top, lot of wasted space.
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”
#52The biggest grouse I have with most linux desktops I have is the font rendering. I understand that it is to do with the patents on cleartype etc, but its been so many years with this problem
So install freetype-freeworld and enjoy the nicer fonts.
Re: Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”
#53Forum feedback, like HN feedback, is too extreme, and unless your product is exclusively marketed at the HN crowd, such feedback will be close to useless. You might have a big problem, for example, non-hackers can not write e-mails in Ubuntu, while HN-crowd are worried about battery life. So instead of taking one hour to fix the e-mail problem for thousands of users, you spend thousands of man-hours to marginally improve battery life to please a handful of users.
Re: Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”
#54The biggest grouse I have with most linux desktops I have is the font rendering. I understand that it is to do with the patents on cleartype etc, but its been so many years with this problem
With the latest freetype (https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/subpixel-hinting.htm...), and hinting off, there's not a lot to complain about.
Re: Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”
#55My advice: Instead of supporting a bunch of hardware poorly make one laptop like the macbook pro with:
* 2 ram slots
* 2 M.2 SSD slots
* a decent kb
* a decent touchpad
* a decent screen
* discrete graphics
* good battery management (you can do this because it's only one)
* thunderbolt 3
* at least 3 usb ports
* no dvd
* ONE TRRS audio port
* ethernet
* HDMI for legacy reasons
forget about
* thinnest
* lightest
* or any other 'best' quality - it just has to be good
* touchscreen - no one uses this after day 2 or wants fingerprints on their screen
You will sell a lot of these.
Re: Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”
#56If 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/
Nice. I see it has Cinnamon, Mate, XFCE, Gnome and KDE flavours just like *ubuntu.
Fedora has those, too: https://spins.fedoraproject.org/
Re: Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”
#57My advice: Instead of supporting a bunch of hardware poorly make one laptop like the macbook pro with: * 2 ram slots * 2 M.2 SSD slots * a decent kb * a decent touchpad * a decent screen * discrete graphics * good battery management (you can do this because it's only one) * thunderbolt 3 * at least 3 usb ports * no dvd * ONE TRRS audio port * ethernet * HDMI for legacy reasons forget about * thinnest * lightest * or…
https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-x220/
Upd: this is a 12" laptop. However, they offered Libreboot X400 before, which is 14". You can still get one via https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-installation-service/
Re: Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”
#58I'm using Fedora again as my desktop after some years on OS X. Things that I'd like to see:
* A better email app. Currently none can be said to work very well. I'm actually considering mutt at this point
* A better Gnome Calendar. I think this is coming in the next release.
* A PDF viewer that supports highlighting.
Re: Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”
#59My advice: Instead of supporting a bunch of hardware poorly make one laptop like the macbook pro with: * 2 ram slots * 2 M.2 SSD slots * a decent kb * a decent touchpad * a decent screen * discrete graphics * good battery management (you can do this because it's only one) * thunderbolt 3 * at least 3 usb ports * no dvd * ONE TRRS audio port * ethernet * HDMI for legacy reasons forget about * thinnest * lightest * or…
> touchscreen - no one uses this after day 2 or wants fingerprints on their screen
As a counterpoint: I've turned off the touchpad on my Surface pro 4 - and constantly touch non-touch screens when I'm helping others...
I rarely use a pointing device though - for example I use vimperator/vimium for web browsing and vi for editing (or vi keybindingings in vs code).
But I guess I agree that I don't want a touch screen without a great pen with at least some pressure sensitivity - drawing really is so much more fun and easy - both diagrams, notes and doodles.
Re: Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”
#60My advice: Instead of supporting a bunch of hardware poorly make one laptop like the macbook pro with: * 2 ram slots * 2 M.2 SSD slots * a decent kb * a decent touchpad * a decent screen * discrete graphics * good battery management (you can do this because it's only one) * thunderbolt 3 * at least 3 usb ports * no dvd * ONE TRRS audio port * ethernet * HDMI for legacy reasons forget about * thinnest * lightest * or…
Where did you get these specs from? A survey?