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Honestly, they had jumped the shark back in GNOME 2 era, when the giant rewrite started being used as excuse to not bring back functionality from 1.x series. M

by p_l 4y ago

Honestly, they had jumped the shark back in GNOME 2 era, when the giant rewrite started being used as excuse to not bring back functionality from 1.x series. My Canary in the coal mine was, IIRC, discussion about presenting certain printer options to end user around 2.2 to 2.4 switch, and some options getting discarded from GUI and into regedit-style tinkering, because GNOME team considered them superfluous. From what I recall, the options were ones that I would occasionally use on Windows (and not just I, but also people who wouldn't be considered techies).

cbarrick 4y ago
My canary was similar: the removal of the screensaver settings.
- efaref 4y ago
  For me it was the flashing terminal cursor.
- CoolCold 4y ago
  Not using GNOME myself - so now cannot tune Screensaver there or?
deafpolygon 4y ago
In hindsight, it was impulsive of me - but I left Linux as a whole because of what GNOME did. They broke everything, and disrupted my way of doing things. I /could/ have switched DE or WM, but out of frustration, I switched to macOS (Mac OSX at the time) and didn't look back for over a decade. I've only recently returned a few months ago and found KDE to be sufficient and stable enough for my uses (despite the few bugs I keep running into, but nothing breaking my usability too much).