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Quotes of the weekQuotes of the weekPosted Dec 15, 2011 3:13 UTC (Thu) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)Parent article: Quotes of the week
He, he... Turns out Ingo actually hardly uses "desktop":
> I'm a pretty boring desktop user in general: I spend 99% of my time in front of a full screen gnome-terminal reading code or email that shows exact zero UI elements - not even a scrollbar. So in theory it should be totally trivial and easy to make me happy: yet the last 10 years of the Linux desktop has been a non-stop series of usability annoyances to me ;-)
Of course Gnome 3.2 is then the best choice. It does single full screen apps with nothing else on really, really well. Hang on, isn't that what a text terminal is good at as well? :-)
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Quotes of the week Posted Dec 15, 2011 6:12 UTC (Thu) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]
Well one thing you can say about gnome, even if you don't like it, is that it is stable and well implemented
Quotes of the week Posted Dec 15, 2011 9:23 UTC (Thu) by hmh (subscriber, #3838) [Link]
That's not something to be proud of, that's something you are supposed to do in the first place, i.e. it is a reason to be ashamed of if you don't do it.
Stable and well implemented? We already had it in WindowMaker 10 years ago, and in fvwm for even longer.
Heck, you could abend wmaker and it would restart without any major loss of state (and no data loss)... so even if you did manage to make it segfault, it would not cause you trouble.
Quotes of the week Posted Dec 15, 2011 11:18 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]
Until they started implementing half of it in JavaScript!
Quotes of the week Posted Dec 15, 2011 14:21 UTC (Thu) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452) [Link]
That's a great decision. The code is beautiful (compare to glib code in C) and javascript interprets are blazingly fast these days.
Quotes of the week Posted Dec 15, 2011 14:45 UTC (Thu) by Seegras (subscriber, #20463) [Link]
JavaScript, as explained on http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-an...
"1995 - Brendan Eich reads up on every mistake ever made in designing a programming language, invents a few more, and creates LiveScript. Later, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of Java the language is renamed JavaScript. Later still, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of skin diseases the language is renamed ECMAScript."
Quotes of the week Posted Dec 15, 2011 17:38 UTC (Thu) by alexl (subscriber, #19068) [Link]
Yeah, because clearly that page implies that gnome should keep using C:
1972 - Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix.
Quotes of the week Posted Dec 15, 2011 15:19 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
If JavaScript is better than your other code, then you have a serious problem.
Quotes of the week Posted Dec 18, 2011 14:17 UTC (Sun) by ssam (subscriber, #46587) [Link]
actually gnome 3.2 has been quite unstable for me in fedora. especially if you add any extensions. I guess that will get better with time though. Luckily the MATE guys are maintaining gnome2 until gnome3 is ready.
Quotes of the week Posted Dec 20, 2011 17:05 UTC (Tue) by robbe (guest, #16131) [Link]
I also use terminal programs a lot. Interestingly, gnome-term gets into *my* way a lot, occupying a lot of keyboard shortcuts that I would prefer to pass to the program running inside it. After landing in its menu a few times, I give up and install another terminal...
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