Future of the Linux desktop?

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01 Apr 2012, 8:52 pm

Came across this article I think my fellow Linux users will enjoy...

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01 Apr 2012, 9:43 pm

nat4200 wrote:

Hopefully, having no configurability/customisation options means that it should be better received by Canonical for integration into Ubuntu than Gnome 3 was, as Unity was their way of removing configurability/customisation options.

According to various sources, Mark Shuttleworth and the GNOME devs could not agree as to whether the screen should be purple or blue.

As a result, Ubuntu will be releasing their own updated interface, which is expected to look something like this:

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01 Apr 2012, 9:53 pm

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02 Apr 2012, 10:02 am

F*** GNOME3, Cinnemon, and Unity with a stick. Use a WM like Openbox, Fluxbox, or BlackBox instead. --If you really want a DE, go with LXDE. All of the above are super fast, and lightweight.

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02 Apr 2012, 10:29 am

Is this a joke?

I don't like it at all. I'm sticking with MATE, thank you.

EDIT: Oh good lord. That was an April Fools joke. I'm embarrassed.

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02 Apr 2012, 4:10 pm

My god that was funny, I was one of the first few to read it on Sunday. If GNOME 4 was really going to be like that, it wouldn't be much of a change from GNOME 3.

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02 Apr 2012, 9:18 pm

AstroGeek wrote:

Oh good lord. That was an April Fools joke. I'm embarrassed.

Don't be. I didn't realize it until halfway through the article. Just goes to show how little we trust and expect of GNOME right now.

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I'm sticking with MATE, thank you.

Me too... At least for now. Cinnamon has been making excellent progress, though.

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02 Apr 2012, 10:48 pm

This made me laugh pretty hard, but the ubu image you linked was a riot

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03 Apr 2012, 11:19 pm

Who needs a GUI anyway? Long before I was a boy the cave-people used command line, and liked it.

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04 Apr 2012, 2:05 am

largosan wrote:

Who needs a GUI anyway? Long before I was a boy the cave-people used command line, and liked it.

GNOME 2... So easy, a caveman can do it

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04 Apr 2012, 3:51 am

Pretty funny, guys. Though I'd have to say, I do like Cinnamon. MATE is still a bit unusable, but it does have potential. I'm currently running Linux Mint 11 for the *truly* classic Gnome2 interface. It is much more stable than MATE for one thing, and my favorite GTK+ themes (Orta and Atolm, for example) are more compatible with GTK+2. If I try to use them on a GTK+3 interface I get a boxxy, 1998-style theme while using apps as root (Synaptic, for example). But anyway, I have faith in the potential of MATE to be a truly special desktop environment, perhaps even as special as Gnome2. Gnome shell is arguably the worst thing that ever happened to the Linux desktop.

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04 Apr 2012, 5:28 am

Abstract_Logic wrote:

Through sufficient frigging I've managed to get MATE to be stable on my machine.

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