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GNOME has been doing some really cool stuff as of late (http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/03/top-features-in-gnome-3-2... http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/03/top-f

by kleiba 10y ago

GNOME has been doing some really cool stuff as of late (http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/03/top-features-in-gnome-3-2... http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/03/top-features-in-gnome-3-2...). Do you really think that? To me, this is just a collection of really old stuff and features that should be a matter of course. Case in point: "the headline feature" (adjusting the color temperature of your display depending on the time of day) is something that has been around for years one way or the other on all operating systems. Or take: "Bookmarking webpages in Web now takes a single click." Hasn't that been the case since, like, always? Even if I'm wrong, I would hardly file such a feature under "really cool stuff".

AdmiralAsshat 10y ago
Case in point: "the headline feature" (adjusting the color temperature of your display depending on the time of day) is something that has been around for years one way or the other on all operating systems. But not in Wayland. I'm happily using Redshift in Cinnamon (one of the other things keeping me on Cinnamon), but the fact remains that having it built into the distro makes it more readily accessible to everyone.
unethical_ban 10y ago
Yeah, and redshift has been available on Linux for a long time. Now it's built in the OS. Windows 10 doesn't have that. What's your point?
- int_19h 10y ago
  Win10 doesn't have it out of the box, but third-party software that implements it (like f.lux) has been available for a very long time. (Also, FWIW, Win10 insider builds do have it out of the box.)
  - lvillani 10y ago
    Third party software has been available on Linux distributions for a long time all the same. Shipping this feature out of the box with an OS install started happening only recently (e.g. Night Shift came to iOS only 1 year ago, Windows 10 is getting it just now, AOSP has a "secret" knob to turn it on and it's enabled in 3rd party ROMs, etc).
- jbicha 10y ago
  Windows 10 will have it next week in the Creators Update. Android has it in 7 "Nougat" but most Android users don't have that version yet. It seems to me like GNOME was right on time.

by kleiba 10y ago

AdmiralAsshat 10y ago

Case in point: "the headline feature" (adjusting the color temperature of your display depending on the time of day) is something that has been around for years one way or the other on all operating systems. But not in Wayland. I'm happily using Redshift in Cinnamon (one of the other things keeping me on Cinnamon), but the fact remains that having it built into the distro makes it more readily accessible to everyone.

unethical_ban 10y ago

Yeah, and redshift has been available on Linux for a long time. Now it's built in the OS. Windows 10 doesn't have that. What's your point?

int_19h 10y ago
Win10 doesn't have it out of the box, but third-party software that implements it (like f.lux) has been available for a very long time. (Also, FWIW, Win10 insider builds do have it out of the box.)
- lvillani 10y ago
  Third party software has been available on Linux distributions for a long time all the same. Shipping this feature out of the box with an OS install started happening only recently (e.g. Night Shift came to iOS only 1 year ago, Windows 10 is getting it just now, AOSP has a "secret" knob to turn it on and it's enabled in 3rd party ROMs, etc).
jbicha 10y ago
Windows 10 will have it next week in the Creators Update. Android has it in 7 "Nougat" but most Android users don't have that version yet. It seems to me like GNOME was right on time.