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Re:Gnome 3.12 Released by webkike on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @04:36PM (#7476432)
Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but I love Gnome, and it just keeps improving. It's got some annoying issues, such as when the designers decide to willy-nilly drop important features inbetween releases (like the Ethernet connection indicator, and the backtracking in gparted), but it's been great otherwise. A genuinely good desktop manager for linux.
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Re:Gnome 3.12 Released by broodbucket on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @05:04PM (#7476645)
No change they made ever had consequences as dire as when they removed transparency from GNOME Terminal.

Never forget.

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Re:Gnome 3.12 Released by krakensden on Thursday March 27, 2014 @02:21AM (#7478912)
It's sad, but I've switched to xterm
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Re:Gnome 3.12 Released by sramkrishna on Thursday March 27, 2014 @02:02PM (#7482062)
a strange switch, xterm doesn't have transparency eitiher and as far as correctness goes, gnome-terminal is very correct compared to others. So I have no idea why you would switch to xterm.
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Re:Gnome 3.12 Released by middleclick on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @05:49PM (#7476905)
When GNOME 3 came out, I was upset and hated it. Then I moved on to running i3 without a DE and I don't think I am using a DE again. It's surprising how little features of a DE I need. Right now, I have nothing that requires a DE.
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Re:Gnome 3.12 Released by massysett on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @10:58PM (#7478298)
The only thing I miss is power management and buttons. I get tired of futzing around to get my brightness buttons to work, and then a newer kernel changes the interfaces again.
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Re:Gnome 3.12 Released by middleclick on Thursday March 27, 2014 @12:34AM (#7478626)
I must admit I am not doing power management of any sorts. For brightness, I use xbacklight and it works pretty well.
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