May 23, 2025
Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, the "read it later" service it acquired in 2017 and integrated into the Firefox web browser. Pocket shuts d
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Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, the "read it later" service it acquired in 2017 and integrated into the Firefox web browser. Pocket shuts d
No need to disable it then
A new version of the Vivaldi web browser is available to download, carrying changes said to make our collective "everyday browsing smoother,
I think it's supposed to say the Flatpak version is *not* officially supported by Vivaldi
Open-source video player Celluloid premiered a new release this weekend with user-interface improvements, support for Lua models and more. C
Celluloid is actually pretty good. It's a minimalistic front-end for mpv. Personally I tend to just use mpv from the command line but if you want a GUI Celluloid is decent. Another good option is SMPlayer but it is definitely not minimalistic.
OMG Ubuntu Comments System Sucks - Also My thoughts on The Current State of Desktop Environments
This article was going to be a post about my thoughts on the state of Desktop Environments based on the comments I have posted over on OMG Ubuntu.
The thing is they deleted my comment. If you follow that link you will see it has been removed. Yet it was one of the most liked Comments there. Luckily I kept a backup so you can see what I posted.
Gnome Shell and Unity should just be taken outside and shot in the face. It is an unwanted mess of a DE that is having an identity crisis. Its not sure if its a desktop or a phone/tablet. Why they are going after the tablet market I have no clue. Unless you are iOS or Android you are pretty much doomed going after that market. It doesn't even make sense anymore to use this interface on Netbooks as most people just use them as small laptops as they have more then enough power now. New ones are more powerful then mid rage laptops from a few years ago. Linux was taken some real steps forward in the Computer industry. Now they have just thrown that all out of the window. There isn't really a usable DE anymore. XFCE is OK but laking. KDE is just a joke. It looks pretty but once you get past that it has some really odd behaver. E17 is still stuck in the 90's. And all the other desktops where designed to run on low spec systems/thin clients so are missing a few things that you would see in a more modern DE. I am hoping for a Gnome 3 fork. Not a gnome 2 one. Gnome 3 maybe a mess but GTK3 is the right way to go. Or even a XFCE port that uses GTK3 and the gnome-panel. Not the gnome panel from 3 because I have no clue what was going though the devs head that made some of the decisions when designing the panel for the gnome 3 fallback. Or lets just go all out and start a new one but use Qt.
Patrick Scott
I'll never understand why people still like Gnome 2.3. The panels were awful, the applets/indicators/systray icons or whatever you want to call them were awful and the Application menus were soo 1995. I'm glad the Gnome team dumped it.. And yeah, I agree with you that Ubuntu don't have a chance in the tablet market with Android and iOS. However, the move to a touch friendly UI was going to have to happen eventually. For example, my next PC build will feature a 23" Touchscreen monitor (Acer t231h). With the extremely touch orientated Windows 8 around the corner, there are going to be touchscreen desktops, laptops, and netbooks all over the place in a couple of years and some of them will have owners that will want Ubuntu support. It's good that the Ubuntu devs have spotted the trend before it caught on and is getting a headstart on this...
My reply.
Why are you going to get a 23" Touchscreen monitor? Never understood why people would want one. Touch makes sense on tablets and phones where it isn't possible to use a mouse. It is a perfect way to interact with hand held devices. Touch is for devices you carry around with you and presentation boards. Touchscreen monitors really haven't got any use on a Desktop system. Why would anyone want to sit down in front of a Desktop PC and stretch their arms out and wave it in front of a monitor? Your arms will get very tied very quickly. Try it now. If you are on a Desktop System hold your finger against the screen and see how long it takes before your arm gets tired. A mouse is much better then touch on a Desktop PC. Also I hate it when I see smudges on the screen so can only imagine what it would be like on a Touchscreen monitor. Also with Multi-Touch mouses coming out there isn't going to be anything a Touchscreen can do better then a mouse. If you are going to say drawing we have had Graphic Tablets that are much better then any Touchscreen for a good while now. So I really can't see a need for touchscreen desktops. I think its a fad that isn't going to catch on. The hardware vender's have seen that touch phones and tablets are doing really well so they are just chucking touch onto everything. Because of this software developers are getting involved to make sure their systems work on it. I don't have a problem with that. What I do have a problem with is basing your whole DE on a touch interface. Adding it as an added feature and completely re-designing the whole DE around it is two completely different things. All anyone needs to do is spend more than 2 minutes thinking about it and they will probably relies its one of the dumbest things that the tech industry have come out with since the Sinclair C5. Touch on hand held devices. Ingenious. Putting touch on anything and everything just because you can. Not so much.
Satyajit Sahoo reply to first comment
Why do we need a port? You should look at this article - http://funsurf-blog.blogspot.com/2011/08/do-we-really-need-gnome-2-forks.html
My reply.
For one I am asking for a Gnome 3 port. Not Gnome 2. Also in that article you barely explain anything. Just that you can kinda make Gnome 3 look like Gnome 2. I can do a better job then what you have to make Gnome 3 look more like Gnome 2. But I am using an older version of gnome-panel. The one that works.
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But Gnome 3 fallback does not work or act like Gnome 2. You don't cover the issues with the desktop. For an example there are problems with Compiz. The Close/Maximize/Minimize buttons disappear when running Compiz on gnome3. Also you don't bring up about the system menu being missing. Also that many of the know and trusted system apps in Gnome 2 are nothing like they are in Gnome 3. Right clicking on the desktop to change the background only does that now. You need to go hunting around to be able to change the theme. Also most of the applets that worked fine in gnome 2 don't work in Gnome 3. The fallback mode is a joke. The Gnome Team clearly don't care for it and it shows. They are interested in Gnome Shell and thats it. What is needed is a better Gnome 3 Fallback mode. Gnome 2 is still a fine desktop but the core of it needs updating. GTK3 ect. Idealy I would like the XFCE Team to pick this up and run with it. I think they have the skills to be able to make a really good Gnome 3 fallback mode that works and acts "exactly" the same as Gnome 2.3 and isn't some half a**ed attempt just to try and keep the public happy. I want to see an updated Gnome 2.3 that is using GTK3. Thats all. Nothing more nothing less. A true fallback mode that mimics Gnome 2.3 exactly but has all the latest advantages of Gnome Shell. This way any app made for Gnome Shell will work with the Gnome 2.3 clone. Basically someone needs to port Gnome 2.3 to Gnome Shell so when we use fallback mode you can't tell the difference between Gnome 3 fallback and Gnome 2.3
So they are the few comments I posted that I was going to base this article on. Really not sure why the first comment was deleted. I know OMG Ubuntu really don't like Pinguy OS but I doubt they would of removed it because of that, would they? In the past I did contact them to see if they would do a review on Pinguy OS. They wouldn't. I even asked people to contact them if they wanted OMG Ubuntu to take a look at the Distro.
They had so many requests that they even tweeted about it. But they still wouldn't review it. I know some of you are probably thinking its a blog about Ubuntu so they wouldn't do reviews on remixes. This isn't really true. They have done reviews on Bodhi, Xtreamer plus a few others. They are also all over the Elementary project. Anytime Elementary do anything they are the first to post about it. So they do cover other Distros.
I wanted to do this post about my thoughts on Desktop Environments but now I am just copying my comments here just in case they all get removed. This isn't really the post I first set out to do but it does cover everything I was going to cover as it was going to be based off of these comments anyway. I was just a bit upset to see that OMG Ubuntu deleted my first comment so am venting my frustration here.
#Edit
The comment is back now, read this to find out more info and the reason it was removed. I am still finding it pretty hard to believe that was the reason it was removed, but at least my comment has been put back. They have asked me to change the name of the title from "OMG Ubuntu Delete Comments That They Don't Agree With" to what is now. As they did put the comment back I think its only fair.
The blog post is basically about a girl who buys a Dell laptop running Ubuntu rather than Windows for college. She basically couldn't figure out how to use the OS and decided that she'd take her idiocy to a news network.
There are two videos on there, the initial story and then a follow up after the news network received copious amounts of feedback from the linux community.
Personally I'm a little enraged by the reporting here. It's one thing for a consumer who doesn't really know what they're doing to order the wrong product, but to have the story reported in such a way that makes a Linux OS out to be unusable and inferior is, to be quite frank, bull shit.
As mentioned earlier the news network and in fact the girl herself received responses form the linux community, and rightly so (in the case of the non-abusive feedback anyways). My personal favourite was something along the lines of the girl 'is not worthy of a college degree'.
I know this isn't a recent story, the girls running Ubuntu 7.10, so it's probably around 3-4 years old. However, It's just featured on OMG Ubuntu, and I'd not heard of it previously so figured it deserved a post on my tumblr.
Sounds like it will be very interesting...
a note on the picture u see next to the title on this tab:
this is the symbol of the elementary project of which i am a huge fan http://elementaryos.org/
i got the image from a commentator on OMG!Ubuntu's profile his name is kevin mcdole i don't know him
just wanted to point out http://elementaryos.org/ mainly and give credit for where i got the image
btw its a linux distribution (elementary os) they also make GOOD software (and its free)
a good but slightly out of date article on the elementary project from wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_(computing)