<div class="gmail_quote">On 2 May 2012 17:13, <a href="mailto:david@gbenet.com">david@gbenet.com</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@gbenet.com" target="_blank">david@gbenet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I have been a Linux user for over 15 years and what I have seen is the hard coding and the<br>
lack of real choice in what end users of Linux can do. Gnome-3 may be pretty but tell me how<br>
do you place important txt documents on your desktop? Or how can you add programmes to the<br>
menu? How can you edit the menu? Not all programmes you install get added to the menu - why<br>
is that?<br></blockquote><div><br>Have you actually tried using a search engine to find the answers to any of these questions? As I've stated before they are indeed all possible.<br><br>It seems you've made up your mind about things, but for the sake of completeness:<br>
<br>"how do you place important txt documents on your desktop?" - use gnome-tweak-tool and in the Desktop section toggle "Have file manager handle the desktop" to On<br><br>"how can you add programmes to the menu?" - By menu I assume you mean the dock-like widget to the left, in which - <a href="http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/shell-apps-favorites.html.en">http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/shell-apps-favorites.html.en</a><br>
Otherwise, see below.<br><br>"How can you edit the menu?" and "Not all programmes you install get added to the menu - why is that?" - I'm still not 100% certain what you mean by menu here. Programs in the "Applications" view[2] are anything for which a .desktop file exists in one of the standard places for such things. I recently added Eclipse to the Applications view by creating a eclipse.desktop in ~/.local//share/applications.<br>
How to create .desktop files is well documented[3].<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I can appreciate that Ubuntu has taken many many steps backwards for the sake of wooing<br>
people from Microsoft - and giving those Microsoft users a "look and feel" of Windows with a<br>
very pretty gnome-3 - but Ubuntu is still bollocks and Gnome-3 is still bollocks unless of<br>
course you have been using Windows then Ubuntu must seem like a breath of fresh air.<br></blockquote><div><br>The Ubuntu user interface is Unity, all this time you've been flaming Gnome3 did you really mean Unity? <br>
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Microsoft is a "hard-coded branded product" which offers no freedom of choice. I could say<br>
the same for Ubuntu and SUSE. Fedora et al. We are fast moving to closed hard-coded Linux<br>
not open source. But for Mr and Mrs Average - what do they care?<br></blockquote></div><br>What I understand the definition of hard-coded to be clearly disagrees with yours. My understanding of the definition of Open Source most definitely does. <br>
<br>I take hard coded to mean that one cannot change a certain behaviour without editing and recompiling the source, the things you have mentioned above do not fit this meaning.<br><br>I subscribe to the standard OSI definition[1] of Open Source by which Gnome3 and Unity are most certainly open source.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Joshua<br><br>1. <a href="http://www.opensource.org/osd.html">http://www.opensource.org/osd.html</a><br>2. <a href="http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/shell-apps-open.html.en">http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/shell-apps-open.html.en</a><br>
3. <a href="http://developer.gnome.org/integration-guide/stable/desktop-files.html.en">http://developer.gnome.org/integration-guide/stable/desktop-files.html.en</a><br>-- <br>Joshua Lock<br>