Playing some Counter-Strike 2 and then a GNOME donation notification pops up 😅
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I’m not sure why people enable any notifications on their desktop in the first place.
Whenever I start a game on my KDE desktop, the notifications get muted automatically. I have no idea why, because I really don’t remember setting it up. Maybe it’s a standard feature that was added at some point. It’s honestly pretty great though.
I think it’s a default. It also tells me how many notifications I missed after closing the game.
I see you stopped playing because your game crashed. You got 76 notifications in the 20 hours you were playing. Take a shower, drink some water, and get some sleep you slacker.
KDE turns on do not disturb mode when a program is in full screen mode by default.
You can test this by binding DnD to a button (preferable Meta key + unused letter like F), opening a program in full screen mode and toggling DnD.
This feature can be disabled in settings.
Is meta the official term for that key? I always called it the super key. Just curious
Only KDE calls it “meta”. Everywhere else it’s either “super” or “mod4”. The left Alt is sometimes called “meta” or “mod1”.
It’s not just kde, for example the backronym for Emacs is “esc meta alt ctrl shift”
the discussion you entered was not about whether “meta” exists as a key, but rather, which key is “meta”.
No, I was specifically responding to “only KDE calls it meta.”
To be notified of things that they want to know about.
And even notifications they don’t want to know about for free!
GNOME lets you block notifications on a per application basis.
Nevermind the donation pop-up, how can people use gnome? It’s unusable, it interface is literally the worse UI I’ve ever had the displeasure of using only second to macOS.
I believe that gnome is actually what is keeping many people away from gnu/linux, since it’s default on many distros, people install “linux” and they get gnome and gnome sucks so they hate on linux instead of hating gnome.
I use it and like it. No strong opinion here, it just works well for me.
I was into it back when Gnome 3 came out… the problem is that I had to fill too many “holes” (for me, maybe not for everyone) in the functionality with extensions and those were quirky as fuck. You never knew what was going to stop working (or work differently) any day but without them, I could not function properly
And just to give you an idea of how tolerant I am with risk… my daily driver now is Garuda Linux with Hyprland instead of a desktop that I configured from scratch… my browser of choice is FireDragon which is a fork of Floorp which is a fork of Firefox
I am certain it is better now than it was back then… but once you are comfortable with an environment, it is a pretty tall order to switch around.
What’s wrong with the MacOS UI? It works pretty well, and is pretty easy to pick up. Some of the biggest complaining I heard back in the day is that the close/min/max buttons were on the other side and someone who can’t handle that doesn’t have an opinion worth entertaining. Most of it was just a extreme refusal to learn out of spite which is more embarrassing for them than an argument.
I don’t hate macOS, and I don’t even know if I consider it worse than Windows, but here are a few things I dislike.
- Overuse of icons with no clear way to turn on labels combined with a weirdly high time for tooltips to appear makes things confusing.
- Finder doesn’t have a way to just go up a directory or easily type/get the path of the current folder. The home folder is not in the shortcut area by default.
- “Alt tabbing” between windows behaves very differently, though it’s not necessarily worse, just different. Command tab switches programs. Command back tick switches windows of that program. So if you want to switch between windows of a browser it is a different shortcut. This one is entirely opinion based. But still, there’s no way to change the behavior.
- Notifications go away after a very short time period or stay forever. There isn’t an easy way to get them to stick around longer without making them stay until you dismiss them. It’d be nice to have a middle ground between a few seconds and forever.
- Closing a window doesn’t necessarily close a program. Like the “alt tabbing” thing this is opinion based too, because these approaches both technically predate the other approach. Sometimes you close a window and it has a dot on the task bar meaning it’s still running. It’s very odd.
it’s particularly baffling since KDE plasma is at this point kiiiiiinda just the best desktop, including windows and mac.
By default it just works as 90% of people would expect it to, and if you want to you can customize it into something unrecognizable and it’ll outright help you to do so.It’s so fucking good that i switched to it just because my mom has it on her laptop and it looked fucking sweet
I believe the notifications for donation on my KDE laptop (running Bazzite) are yearly so… hopefully you won’t be seeing it often
Recent versions of KDE also automatically enable Do Not Disturb mode whenever you launch a full-screen window so you won’t get interrupted by a notification anyway! Honestly surprised GNOME doesn’t do that as well.
They do.
It’s easy to test with
notify-send test, and yeah GNOME does block notifications while fullscreen applications are open. I wonder how that notification went through, maybe gamescope isn’t properly registering the fullscreen application or it’s x11 wine being the problem.My guess is they are using this:
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1610/fullscreen-notifications/
I was also puzzling over this for a bit… I use Bazzite GNOME on a Deck, and I can’t recall ever getting a GNOME notification while in fullscreen anything, video or videogame, launched in desktop mode, and certainly never in the ‘game mode’ (I believe that is when gamescope is active, right? at least with the Deck variant of Bazzite?).
But yeah anyway, this is my guess, the user manually installed this extension and is apparently annoyed that it is doing its intended function.
… Either that, or… maybe they’re using a … somewhat to moderately out of date version of GNOME?
Well, good work looking into it!
But uh… oh neat, there’s a critical override behavior… for… effectively an advertisement… great.
Rather concerning to watch what appear to be a bunch of GNOME devs rationalize opening up a very likely exploitable spear phishing vector because ‘donating to a non profit is good.’
Welp, if/when that gets rolled out, I am guessing somebody is going to make some kind of extension or script that turns that shit off.
Let’s put things into perspective, it’s a biyearly notification that sustains the entire gnome ecosystem, I’ll remind you that the GNOME foundation pays for the hosting costs, the paperwork and sometimes even development for the GNOME project that includes dozens of apps, libraries and GTK.
This is just the first implementation that will get ironed out in the next few years, like making sure it doesn’t pop up in full screen windows and if you read through the issue there will also be an opt out in the settings.
GNOME alone is like 60% of the reason why stock Ubuntu and all of its derivatives suck. It’s like a mashup of ChromeOS and MacOS, two of the most god awful UX designs this past decade.
Compiz by itself kicks GNOME out of the water, despite it being a now legacy compositor from 2007.
Most annoyingly, even RPM distros like Fedora offer it as default, despite having a fully supported KDE option right there, along with any other DE that you might want like XFCE, LXQt, Cinnamon, MATE, etc.
I don’t completely hate MacOS, it’s pretty nice IMO.
GNOME instantly gets replaced by KDE Plasma though. With Cosmic also installed for some fun alpha testing.
Just use Linux Mint.
