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I agree, that's why I use the Impatience extension [1]! I don't use anything GTK2 based any more as the lack of smooth scrolling support is really jarring for me, despite the fact that I still like Gnome2's basic design. [1]: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/277/impatience/
I'm not sure what you were referring to with GTK2, but MATE uses GTK3 and preserves the Gnome 2 look.
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What's wrong with Snaps? I'd say it's a good approach in many cases.
Upstream GNOME is working on Flatpak, so is Ubuntu going to ship GNOME or GNOME-with-Flatpak-stripped-out?
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GNOME has been doing some really cool stuff as of late ( http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/03/top-features-in-gnome-3-2... ). Do you really think that? To me, this is just a collection of really old stuff and features that should be a matter of course. Case in point: " the headline feature" (adjusting the color temperature of your display depending on the time of day) is something that has been around for years one way…
Yeah, and redshift has been available on Linux for a long time. Now it's built in the OS. Windows 10 doesn't have that. What's your point?
Unity has often been criticized because it was a Canonical thing and didn't leverage Wayland, but it's another world compared to Gnome shell. I couldn't like gnome shell no matter what. I was using Gnome shell on a old eeepc. The interface is dumbed down and you have to install a bunch of extensions to make it as functional as Unity. What was worse is that the launcher automatically triggered the search function, and…
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> If you had the Play Store on Ubuntu Phone you would probably also go there a lot more often. Actually, I would probably not, though I can't deny I would be intrigued to have it as an option. I am able to set up most of the things that I would want via something like apt, or shell scripts or similar
How would you hack a navigation app with shell scripts?
I also think that convergence is the future, but I don't think the market is ready for it. Phones run on ARM, desktops run on x86. The non-Pro Microsoft Surface is good, but many people still have a few x86-only legacy applications or devices that need a "real computer". USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 adoption is just barely in its infancy, and it'll be a couple of years before we start seeing it on affordable mass-market phones, laptops, printers, monitors, and so forth.
I think we've got another decade or so to go, but the pieces are slowly moving into place. Unity was a bit too far ahead of its time.
I get that they're moving away from convergence, but what does this ultimately mean for Ubuntu as a mobile OS? In the grand scheme of things, what does this mean for users who want a completely FOSS stack for their phone (let's ignore the baseband for now)? As far as I can tell, this just means that your only options are Android or iOS. It's not easy to get a Jolla/SailfishOS phone that will work on most Canadian or…
- Replicant (http://www.replicant.us)
- Plasma Mobile (https://plasma-mobile.org)
- Tizen (https://www.tizen.org)
Unfortunately, I guess Ubuntu Desktop won't last much, too. Can Canonical make money from that? Nope. They even made their product less appealing when they helped Microsoft run it inside their OS. I always thought Canonical wouldn't be around much longer, and these news seems to confirm that. I'd, as a long time Ubuntu user, miss them.
> They even made their product less appealing when they helped Microsoft run it inside their OS Why does it make it less appealing? Ubuntu userspace running inside WSL is still Ubuntu. If you need support for it, you'd still go to them, same as if you would if you were running it in a VM or on dedicated hardware.
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Gnome has a global menu bar by default now, I think I had to use the tweak tool to turn it off.
Can you give reference about global menu in gnome shell? I can only find old reference to some attemp to implement it[0]. I have tried gnome shell in the past, but I still prever unity because of the global menu. [0] https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-globalmenu
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Building something lasting takes resources. Canonical simply had no chance. Even Microsoft, despite their aquisition of Nokia, their marketing budget, their massive dev resources, is failing on mobile. They even have their own convergence feature and it's not enough to attrack customers.
If, "Canonical simply had no chance", then does that mean we're stuck with iOS and Android period? And no other mobile OS has a shot? If you believe that, then you're certainly entitled to your opinion, but I feel like that's not the type of hacker mindset that moves the world forward. I'm optimistic because I've never seen one of these 3rd option OSes take the approach mentioned in the Crossing the Chasm book linked…