Natanox to [email protected]English • 14 days agoWho needs stable, feature-rich desktops anywaydiscuss.tchncs.deimagemessage-square250fedilinkarrow-up1753
arrow-up1753imageWho needs stable, feature-rich desktops anywaydiscuss.tchncs.deNatanox to [email protected]English • 14 days agomessage-square250fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink10•edit-213 days ago They’re an old spec from 2002 They’re useful, “old” is no excuse. Mobile OS have something similiar. No, don’t create a new spec, you’re bad at that kind of thing. They’re too small to click for people with increased accessibility needs Make them bigger? I can do that on XFCE. They serve the needs of app publishers (making their app visible at all times), not those of the user There are too many of them Again, they are useful to the user. Just give the user a way to control which to display or not. They look bad Your design team sucks And that’s why i don’t like Gnome (and Gtk for that matter); they prioritize their skewed visions over everything else, including usability.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•13 days ago They’re useful, “old” is no excuse. the above tl;dr forgot something massive: all current protocols are unsafe (e.g. need exporting the entirety of org.kde.* in dbus) and/or only work on X11
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•13 days agoInsecure? It is run by the user, communicates only with things run by the user.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•13 days agoSo things like sandboxing or even not running everything as root should exist.
They’re useful, “old” is no excuse. Mobile OS have something similiar. No, don’t create a new spec, you’re bad at that kind of thing.
Make them bigger? I can do that on XFCE.
Again, they are useful to the user. Just give the user a way to control which to display or not.
Your design team sucks
And that’s why i don’t like Gnome (and Gtk for that matter); they prioritize their skewed visions over everything else, including usability.
the above tl;dr forgot something massive: all current protocols are unsafe (e.g. need exporting the entirety of org.kde.* in dbus) and/or only work on X11
Insecure? It is run by the user, communicates only with things run by the user.
So things like sandboxing or even not running everything as root should exist.