A detailed examination of the GNOME UI in later versions

dbdemon

dbdemon

I recently came across this blog article about the GNOME UI which I found to be enlightening. Often, the criticism I see against GNOME is more general and/or seems to be based on subjective ideas for what a desktop environment and window manager should be like (design paradigms). This article, however, is much more specific and practical in its examination, and as a longtime GNOME user I found myself nodding along in agreement.

 
"… No matter how hard you try, you can't please everyone. …"

When I was abandoning Mac OS X: I liked the GNOME Web approach to what Apple had wrecked in Safari.

It pleased Apple, at the time, to bullshit people at WWDC. Developers in the audience applauded Apple's blatant lie about the on-screen presence of something that was clearly not on screen.

Eventually, Web lost its comparable niceness.
 
1726350924319.pngHmm, no point discussing GNOME in a GNOME-specific area …
 

Meld – GNOME visual diff and merge tool​


The hamburger menu has a Help option that opens a non-GNOME Help Center, where documentation is not found. Bug reported.

1726398160150.pngFor file comparison, the big 'add file' button remains greyed out after the first file has been added.

Meld help for Comparing Files explains:

… You can start a new file comparison using the new comparison button on the toolbar.

Once you've selected your files, …
Click to expand...

– without explaining how to select more than one file.

I do like at least two things when I perform a comparison. Call me old-fashioned.

A folder-specific menu appears beneath the 'add folder' button, not beneath the 'add file' button.

To add the second file: click the folder menu beneath the 'add folder' button.

Don't confuse the small 'add folder' button in the toolbar with the big 'add folder' button. The two have entirely different purposes.

I do love Meld, when it does perform a comparison, however the counterintuitive pre-comparison GUI has confused me, thoroughly, more than once in the past.
 
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