LWDW 140: Kiss Of A GNOME

KDE celebrates its 22nd anniversary, GNOME bids application menus farewell and PLEX goes Snap.

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KISS of a GNOME

Not even remotely shocked.
Application menus go back to where they should have never left from.
I agree with mikeg in shatrealm, “Some apps used it, many did not. Keeps me from searching needlessly.”
The global menu on OSX is annoying but at least I can kinda see how it makes sense.
This, this never made any sense.
Can we get rid of the hamburger menu?
Those are designed for mobile (touch) and simply do not belong on the desktop.

22 years ago the KDE, or Kool Desktop Environment was born!
Matthias Ettrich KDE’s creator was not quite happy with the look and feel of CDE, or the Common Desktop Environment, KDE is a pun on CDE.
In December 2014 the now popular educational software GCompris joined the KDE Incubator project.
I first enjoyed KDE as the default desktop of the Knoppix Live CD.
My favorite KDE apps: Kdenlive, Krita, K3b, QtParted . . . and, yes I have always liked the file manager and web browser Konqueror, and thought it brought a fresh and unique approach to file management and web browsing. And WebKit to boot!
It’s hard to believe KDE was designed as a better CDE.
I remember downloading KDE @ Uni back in 98 and going through the elaborate process of getting permission to use the CD burner.
Qt not being completely free was a weekly dabte on Slashdot back in the day.

If the point is simplicity, why not take the Cinnamon approach and just have a muted, darkened version of the wallpaper with the clock on it?
Xscreensaver support is all well and good but current LCDs can take a bit more punishment and if you’re not actively using them, let them time out.
Looking forward to using Xscreensaver with proper integration with Xfce4, Xfce libraries and Xfconf configuration backend.
Completely agree with Pedro, the Cinnamon implementation of a screen saver is really one of the most elegant of any window manager.
Neat, but ultimately useless.
Modern screens (those made in the last decade) do not suffer from burn-in.
Set your screens to power off instead of using a screensaver.
Both The ActivityPub protocol and

Because apt install plex was to hard?
Not quite sure I would want to use a Snap to run a server application.
“In adopting the universal Linux app packaging format”
- Technically true is the best kind of true.
Free 30 day trial of Plex Pass: PLEXPASS-SNAP
On a side jag, PLEX you lot are borderline shady with getting people to create accounts.
The skip button that was roughly 0.5 a shade different vs the background, in mice type and hidden in a corner is GONE.
Now it’s behind a link that reads “What’s this?”
Then I get another sales pitch informing me my life will be negatively impacted and WILL NOT BE SECURE #boogabooga if I do not create an account.
Then I get the option to Skip and accept “limited functionality” which is what 99% of users actually need and you know that… or you would not have spent time and energy hiding it.

With all the discussions recently of a decentralized Internet being the future, it seems this open source technology should be increasing, or maybe it will make a come back at a future time?
To be fair, with stuff like the Facebook leak and G+ shutting down, a lot of the services for which it would make sense are either dying or not a safe option.
OpenID is great but it needs those extra services.
OpenID never really gained mass adoption so it’s really no surprise it’s in little use.
There are alternatives to OpenID but like most of you at home I’m not one to use social logins in the first place.

Thank you to Martin Wimpress for this awesome script for Ubuntu to configure the monitor and touch screen rotation on the GPD Pocket 2.

In August Ubports released Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 with Ubuntu 16.04, but it had to be manually updated, now many bugs have been fixed and the OTA-5 release with Ubuntu 16.04 is available with an automatic update!
This is the start of a regularly bi-monthly release cycle of updates.
Now includes the new Morph Browser based on QtWebEngine and a more recent Chromium engine base.
- Uses Qt Automatic Scaling which allows the browser to adjust to any screen size and scales webpages properly.
- And is a lot less buggy and faster than the older web browser. That was one of my biggest complaints about Ubuntu Touch.

I know this is nothing new but I’m learning about digital mixing.
This is a gang of is available exclusively for LINUX-based operating systems and runs as a stand-alone effect rack connectable through Jack sound server or as plug-ins in every audio host that is able to fire up LV2 compliant devices,
e.g. the highly recommended Ardour Audio Workstation
Reverb, compressors, gates, synths and the like.
Wicked easy to build from source.
Also, typo on your webzone, compliant.

Tutanota, the first encrypted email service with an app on F-Droid, is open source and an alternative to Gmail.
An easy to use encrypted email client without having to install OpenPGP, PGP, or GPG or paying for an expensive encryption email service.
ProtonMail and CounterMail are nice encrypted email alternatives also, but are not available on F-Droid.

Wow, I first used IRC on BBSes before the Web. We used it to communicate and share the warez . . .
And then I found a little podcast called LinuxGameCast and started using it again!
I still don’t know how IRC works.

Slice of Pi

Pocket Pih

Libre Computer’s $10 La Frite board offers a cheap alternative and better specs to the Raspberry Pi A+ and is available now to purchase on Kickstarter!
The La Frite is running on an S805X system on a chip that features a quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 at 1.2GHz and Arm Mali-450 GPU Cores.
The $10 option features 512MB of RAM and the $15 option features 1GB of RAM.
No Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support.

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