this.

oh, if I had mod points.

kudos, dude.

sorry to disappoint, that wasn't me. the GP is correct, though, in identifying most of the negative feedback for Gnome 3 as the result of hypocritical hipsters - so it's understandable that you might be confused.

you don't know me, son, so let me explain this to you once: If I ever bitchslap you, you'll be using an AC post. I'll be using my account. and I'll still bitchslap you so hard, your mom will feel it (just like she did last night).

the burden of proof befalls on you, my dear; and you have no proof that the name was chosen intentionally. but obviously this is the internet, where random muppets like you can make up stuff and ask others to prove it false. guess what, I can also say that your mom was pleasuring me the other night.

don't be so sure about that: the argument cuts both ways - and if your first thought was a slap on the cheek then I'm pretty sure I'd find you seething and looking at my feet while whimpering about my harsh words. now get lost, nerd.

it actually turns out that the KDE system settings shell is *always* shown (regardless if your using Gnome, XFCE, LXDE or whatever), and the maintainer did not accept the "OnlyShowIn" tag fix: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102038/ - the Gnome system setting shell correctly sets the "OnlyShowIn" tag, so that it is only shown under Gnome (or Unity). and yet Gnome gets bashed because the gnome-control-center maintainer decided to give a more descriptive name for something that, unlike in Gnome 2.x, will appear as a launcher. the power of the FLOSS community: eating their children since 1991.

a) I didn't sign the code of conduct; b) the code of conduct applies to gnome resources and conversations with humans, as opposed to muppets like yourself; c) Olav is a gnome sysadmin; d) I can probably find a big enough bucket full of cocks for you to choke on as well, my dear AC.

it was not intentional. turns out that there are not many ways to give a generic and yet descriptive name for the user-facing shell for settings that involve the system. the binary name, and everything else, has a different name. it's just the user-facing name that it's the same - and it only collides if you install and use both KDE and Gnome at the same time. so, if I provide you a ditch big enough, will you be so kind and go die in it? thanks.

the commit was made in December last year; it's in EoG 3.0. I doubt it was backported to the 2.x series, and I'm pretty sure it won't be backported to version 2.23.0, which was the first release in the 2.23 development cycle - which happened 2 and a half years ago.

the code contributed is still present in the current version of EoG, major version bump notwithstanding.

tl;dr. whining never gets you anywhere.

nobody pays anybody to work full time on the whole of GNOME; it's a volunteer effort, through and through. this is also true of a lot of other open source projects.

if no developer is working on your pet bug you have two choices: a) learn the ropes and fix it yourself or b) convince a developer (with money, if necessary) that your pet bug is important and that he or she should work on it for you.

otherwise you have misunderstood how open source works, and you don't get to complain.

and I'd feel more amenable about closing "simple" bugs if you provided patches for them instead of moaning and bitching about them on /. if you provided a patch and didn't stick around to actually have it committed then you're not doing open source development right either, by the way.

Clutter is an open source project that has been around since 2005, and "marketing morons" have nothing to do with its name. and since it's an API to create applications, toolkits and desktop environment, then you won't have Clutter on your desktop, but your desktop will use Clutter internally.

oooh, it was a pun on the name! now, I get it.

actually, the fork of the Metacity window manager using Clutter to handle the scenegraph is called Mutter

a video? like, I don't know, this one? :-)

the Moblin 2.0 UI for netbooks is probably the best showcase of what Clutter can do.