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Gnome: Rethinking Window Management (blogs.gnome.org)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.world
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[–] 2 points 3 years ago

The year of the KDE desktop is finally upon us

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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    every time gnome tries to do things, it gets further away from the gnome i loved...

    whilst there is a lot of interesting thinking here, it's fundamentally trying to solve a problem I don't want solved. I don't want the pile of papers on my desk to never overlap, it's already overlapping and hiding each other based on where my brain knows they are. It's a mess, but it's a mess my brain knows. it's a structural mess.

    leave my windows alone!

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child)

    It may not be of interest to you personally, but the growing popularity of tiling window managers means there's a lot of demand for this type of feature.

    As long as they give the user the ability to opt out/in, what's the harm in introducing it?

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  • [+] -22 points 3 years ago

    Not going against Gnome here, but against your last sentence.

    As long as they give the user the ability to opt out/in, what's the harm in introducing it?

    Pretty sure systemd did this with a lot of things and started removing things they just didn't like. Can't find the website I wanted to link, but it included a lot of reasons why systemd isn't good (for example, binary logging. Why ?) "You can always opt out" doesn't work in the real world ; people don't care enough to switch. Why do you think google is the biggest search engine ? Mainly because it's the default everywhere.

    In this context I guess it doesn't matter (and I couldn't see myself using gnome, even if it has some good polish), it's just that "you can always opt out" leaves a bad taste on my tongue.

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    • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    Very excited to see where this will go. I don’t use gnome, but if it manages to become the perfect mix of TWM and the traditional floating layout, then this could be huge

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