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by mcny 2937 days ago
I've recently started playing with i3. It is very nice. I don't know how to do a lot of things. I have to Google how to connect to a new WiFi connection every time on my phone. However, I like it a lot. Worst case scenario, I have to reboot and log in with gnome.

Personally, I am all for standardization and homogeneity. We need standards and homogeneity. I would gladly steamroll over all the people who oppose "monoculture" for the sake of opposing something.

You can't please everyone but I think gnome is the right answer for most people. Don't like something? Come join the discussion at https://gitlab.gnome.org (I hope I got that right)

Better link https://gitlab.gnome.org/groups/GNOME/-/issues
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groovy2shoes 2937 days ago
I haven't used i3 in a long time, but if it's got support for systray icons, you can run the NetworkManager applet and manage your network settings there as you would in any ol' desktop environment.

I do this with awesome, and it works well. It's a one-liner in rc.lua:

    awful.spawn.with_shell "nm-applet"
Also good for volume control applets :)
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_emacsomancer_ 2936 days ago
> You can't please everyone but I think gnome is the right answer for most people. Don't like something? Come join the discussion at https://gitlab.gnome.org (I hope I got that right)

The problem is I think the deep issues I have with Gnome are not things which are easily fixed, e.g. "stop leaking memory", "don't be a single-threaded Javascript process", "allow me to control workspaces independently on each monitor/screen", &c. &c.

I would love to see Gnome improve though, even if I never end up using it, but I am not currently seeing any obvious signs that this will occur.

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mcny 2936 days ago
I have seen these problems as well and yes the community seems dismissive of the issues with various *-factories https://askubuntu.com/questions/480753/remove-evolution-cale...

I mean I still can't get over the asinine comment covered here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4757077

Very poor choice of words which will hurt us for a long time.

Archived at https://archive.fo/NbzkY

This is the opposite of the standardization and cooperation across desktop environments and window managers that I want!

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