The cost of progress
You should probably ignore this post. I’m just venting. I’ll be better after a nice cup of tea.
Things that are causing me to fume about the fact Gnome Shell just hit Debian/Testing:
- Spacefun came back. Even on GDM3. Just fucking die already.
- I had to reboot to get bluetooth working again.
/desktop/gnome/shell/windows/workspaces_only_on_primary
set by default? SRSLY?- It failed to carry over my previous monitor settings.
- I’m pretty sure I don’t have a latent desire for a machine running OS X, whatever the GNOME devs might think.
- How many mouse clicks to get to the list of applications?
- Er, why have you changed my default apps? (Why is clicking a link in a terminal opening Epiphany rather than a new tab in Iceweasel?)
I update my testing boxes (work + home laptops) almost every day. It rarely breaks, and certainly when it does I accept that’s what I get for doing rolling upgrades. I can’t remember the last time I did an upgrade that actually made me angry.
Also I suspect this thing is going to have a complete fit on my binary nVidia/hacked up DisplayLink configuration at work (the DisplayLink side refuses to do 3D for starters). Perhaps better not to upgrade there until I have a sufficient block of free time.
Maybe it’s time to go back to evilwm. I only stopped because I wanted a dock for wifi/bluetooth etc applets on my laptop that didn’t get hidden when I fullscreened things. Implementing _NET_WM_STRUT
might make that doable…
(I’m sure some of this is just dealing with the change but it’s a bit bloody difficult to deal with a complete change in user interface that hasn’t even managed to carry across settings from the old one.)