Application Suggestions for Gnome 3.0 (OS News)

Posted Apr 26, 2004 19:02 UTC (Mon) by haraldt (guest, #961) [Link]

As a journalist, he's free to wish whatever he wants.

Agree with you for developers, or wannabe-developers, but the effect of what you say is that everyone should be a coder.
Which does not do.

We also need journalists, and testers, and human interface people (, and your normal "stupid" user), who can comment on what is being done.
No demands without money or work, nor any power to decide. But as long as others are free to ignore you, you can wish as much as you want.

Posted Apr 26, 2004 20:21 UTC (Mon) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

I wonder if you read the article at all. The links to the code are provided for every item. Of course, more work would be needed for GNOME integration. Disclaimer: this is not Slashdot, and I'm not new here.

Posted Apr 26, 2004 22:04 UTC (Mon) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]

Should not post when I havent had my coffee and have been up all night with a toddler with a cold. My apologies...

Posted Apr 27, 2004 7:55 UTC (Tue) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link]

I'm a KDE (and broadband) user, but I too have wondered where the modem
dialer is.

While we are at it, and still in the "basics" department, where's the
widget color chooser applet (the parallel to kcmshell colors)? In another
thread, someone asked why I'm worried about color when the apps aren't all
there. It's simple. I look at the color all day every day, in every
(environment inclusive) app I use, so it's not like it's just one piece of
one app I can tolerate not fitting my taste. Even MS has an APPEARANCE
editor, where one can choose colors for the GUI interface as they see fit.
Open source is supposed to be MORE customizable, not LESS, and come on!
editing (poorly documented) text config files by hand to change the color
of the GUI has GOT to be a joke! The only folks I can imagine being
comfortable with that are going to be using the command line most of the
time anyway, not a GUI. Neither does a theme swapper do the job, as I've
yet to find a theme that gets every aspect "right" for me, and a single
bad color choice ruins the whole theme, from my perspective.

Unless and until Gnome gets serious about things and provides even a
simple thing like a GUI color configurator, I simply cannot take it
seriously as an operating environment. I REALLY wish it would, because we
all know that competition is good for all parties, and while KDE is doing
well, a little bit of a push from serious competition could only make it
do better. Unfortunately, something that won't even let me adjust the
colors I have to stare at all day simply isn't serious competition, IMO.

Oh, well. It does seem Gnome is more appealing to the corporate types
favoring desktop lockdown anyway, and a simple thing like a color chooser
would only be one more thing they had to deactivate to achieve their goal.
That probably explains the lack of a modem dialer as well, if it's big
corporate interests with a deployed network calling the shots. Still, one
would THINK such corporate interests might have road-warriors with laptops
that sometimes lodge in hotels without wireless internet access. <shrug>

They have all these fancy apps, but where are the basics? I'd consider
both a modem dialer and a color customizer applet essential basics, here,
even if I DON'T tend to use dialup modems personally. A desktop
environment well into its second generation and now debating its third,
shouldn't still be lacking such basics, IMO. If it is, has to be regarded
as less than a serious contender, which is, as I said, unfortunate..

Duncan

Posted Apr 29, 2004 16:09 UTC (Thu) by jeremiah (subscriber, #1221) [Link]

modem lights on Fedora is what I use.

There is a preference to set the ifup and down commands

Should be a little more integrated with the network config stuff, but it works

Posted Apr 30, 2004 5:39 UTC (Fri) by oconnorcjo (guest, #2605) [Link]

Actually for a journalist, I could imagine IM being a valuable asset to thier work environment.