Gnome 3.14 has been released

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story imageGnome 3.14 has been released, six months after the last version. Sporting "new features and bug fixes, and 28859 changes by approximately 871 contributors," install this new version to enjoy:
  1. a new weather panel
  2. support for captive portal (wifi hot spot authentication)
  3. multi-touch features
  4. household network connection sharing
  5. support for online picture-sharing sites
  6. improvements to the evince PDF reader
... and more.

[Ed. note.] I've never seen release notes that look they were put together by a website designer and marketing agency. What happened to a bunch of bullet points in ASCII posted to Usenet? These release notes are "gorgeous."
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Arrogant pricks (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-25 10:38 (#2SX0)

So the arrogant pricks have produced some more steaming crap. A new weather panel. Wow-whee. Just what we were all waiting for.

Knowing Gnome you'll not be allowed to set your own location, won't be able to turn it off and will be forced to run it full screen.

I really wish the gnome project would die already.

Re: Arrogant pricks (Score: 2, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-25 10:56 (#2SX1)

Wow... alrighty then... you can spit venom at a bunch of people creating software according to their own tastes or you could just you know not use it.

Re: Arrogant pricks (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-25 12:22 (#2SX9)

Do the GNOME developers actually use the crap they put out? I knew a GNOME dev back in college. He worked on GNOME but actually used KDE most of the time. He only contributed to GNOME because they'd accept his crappy code, while KDE wouldn't!

Re: Arrogant pricks (Score: 1, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-25 17:16 (#2SXN)

Mod this up! It's a good question!

Re: Arrogant pricks (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-25 17:22 (#2SXP)

There was a question there? What, pray tell, was it?

Re: Arrogant pricks (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-25 22:40 (#2SY5)

Read the first sentence in that comment:
Do the GNOME developers actually use the crap they put out?
Maybe you aren't aware of this, but we call that a "question". And a question should be answered.

Re: Arrogant pricks (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-26 00:10 (#2SY8)

Very funny, Dr. Jones. Unfortunately, I see no such comment as the one you quoted. The oldest comment I see in this thread is punctuation-challenged and begins "Wow... alrighty then".

Re: Arrogant pricks (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-26 00:13 (#2SY9)

Holy damn, son. Are you browsing at 0? Somebody screwed up and modded down a reply to the one you're talking about. It's at -1. Try adjusting your filters and try again, son.

Re: Arrogant pricks (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-25 12:40 (#2SXC)

Or, he could write his own DE.

Gorgeous (Score: 3, Insightful)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-09-25 11:09 (#2SX3)

I'll just go out there and say that the press release to me is indicative of the project: way too much time and effort going into polish and presentation and not enough into things that matter. Maybe that's a personal preference, but when I see a pig with too much makeup on I start to wonder if it's really just a pig.

That said, it feels mean to criticize them for spit and polish when so many people agree that Linux software needs more spit, polish, and attention to detail. Guess my complaint is that Gnome now consists of too many people working methodically on the color of the bikeshed and not enough people worrying about if the bike rides at all.

I have avoided Gnome3 like the plague. But I'm not hugely enamored of KDE4 this week either - it keeps crapping out on me. I find refuge in Windowmaker, the only environment that seems to be dependable and non-annoying.

Re: Gorgeous (Score: 1)

by nightsky30@pipedot.org on 2014-09-25 12:43 (#2SXD)

I've largely started using xfce instead of Gnome or KDE(Plasma or whatever they just renamed it). I think XFCE has what I want, and I've not had any issues with it yet.