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byrtkluttz ( 244325 ) writes:
They are worrying about inadvertent middle click when you have browsers that try to force you into using the address bar for other things. The address bar should be the address bar and nothing else. And that address should always display the FQDN that you are connecting to, not just the domain. Also, they need to stop text fields from being able to capture the cursor automatically. How many times have people clicked on a link and while waiting for the site to load went and did something else only to have th
bythefrog ( 8075 ) writes:
If only you were a customer, maybe they would address these issues that you have raised. Clearly, they are listening to their customers and not their end users.
bycfalcon ( 779563 ) writes:
I don't even know what GNOME wants, except that they view it as a victory whenever they make something shitty for real users. Like that's their actual goal as near as I can tell. And once they get rid of this standard, they'll bury the option to turn it back on it some weird place that can't be accessed except by a special Power-user type extension, which you have to grab separately and gives you shit about how you're gonna break stuff if you use it.
GNOME is a fucking disgrace. Every time I have to use i
byserviscope_minor ( 664417 ) writes:
To make it stupider, other desktop environments use their GTK3 file selection thing, which is less functional than a windows dialogue box from 1993, generally unable to change to a given manually entered directory completely. Everything they touch gets so bad. I wish they would go the fuck away and never write any more code.
And what's with the complete allergy now to commandline users?
I work from the terminal.when I start a gui program, I'm in some project subdirectory. Why in seven hells is the current working directory not in the file dialog box?
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bycfalcon ( 779563 ) writes:
Who fucking cares about your trivial use case? A competent program solves yours effortlessly, starting a filepick in the working directory is a sensible default and not what is being discussed.
The problem is for anyone who starts it from an icon, or who works from multiple subdirectories (for instance, when I edit with LibreOffice I'm in three subdirectories often, or if I'm building an iso in a CD burning program. Obviously filepickers should not be written assuming that you have one working directory an
byserviscope_minor ( 664417 ) writes:
Who fucking cares about your trivial use case?
Well, me for one.
A competent program solves yours effortlessly, starting a filepick in the working directory
uh... you just said that's a trivial usecase?
is a sensible default and not what is being discussed.
Well, the topic is general whinging about gnome. General whinging is on topic, if you don't like that then I invite you to to somewhere else on the internet.
Obviously filepickers should not be written assuming that you have one working directory and you star
bykarmawarrior ( 311177 ) writes:
> Who fucking cares about your trivial use case?
Ah the Wayland developers slogan.
And the reason Wayland is so fucking awful.
bycfalcon ( 779563 ) writes:
Wait are you saying it DOESN'T start in the working directory either? I thought you were saying that everyone should run from commandline and never need a second thing. Not that it fails to support that either. It didn't even occur to me at all that they wouldn't support that. Outrageous.
byserviscope_minor ( 664417 ) writes:
Wait are you saying it DOESN'T start in the working directory either? I thought you were saying that everyone should run from commandline and never need a second thing. Not that it fails to support that either. It didn't even occur to me at all that they wouldn't support that. Outrageous.
Oh just got to this sorry. No, it doesn't start in the CWD when you start from the commandline, it doesn't even put the CWD in the sidebar (though some programmers put it there).
byaRTeeNLCH ( 6256058 ) writes:
I just read your exchange and figure it's probably Gnome's fault that discussing its shortcomings gets people so confused and upset they get into a disagreeing mode out of contagious contraryanism.
To be entirely fair, I think the good thing of having Gnome is to have a place for all condescending, Windows loving and Apple worshipping devs to congregate and not infect other places where they'd do more harm. And I stay away from Gnome to keep my sanity. And my computer. It's mine, and I decide how it behave
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