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GoblinX Project » GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 244 (04/04/2010) — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 13:17:53 +0000

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By: James

James — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:07:53 +0000

Oh yes, because anything dependent on Gnome or KDE has a distinctive quality of suck. *eye roll*

Shotwell is as close as you’ll get to that right now. Gnome, but otherwise fairly lightweight and doesn’t have Mono dependencies.

By: James

James — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:01:03 +0000

Goggles is about as close as you’ll get right now. Some like Quod Libet (I can’t stand it). DeaDBeeF (http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net) looks promising. Maybe something using XMMS2?

The problem is that any Foobar2000 replacement needs to be absurdly fast and very extensible. Right now? Pick one!

By: Xyzzy

Xyzzy — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:03:53 +0000

I think that for the USA, the primary change is actually just that people with destructive, self-centered, inaccurate viewpoints now often have them reinforced by others that share them, to the point that they feel comfortable voicing & acting on them. In the past, most people kept certain (not always wrong/harmful!) viewpoints to themselves to avoid being shunned; the ones that spoke up were “corrected” by the more-respected members of the community and gossip warned others to keep quiet.

On the other hand, literature from past eras shows that the universal-experience assumption & lack of empathy isn’t itself new — the easiest places to notice it are where ideas are stated/assumed about kinds of people that we know are horribly wrong. (Edith Wharton wrote some very disturbing novels based on how women that didn’t conform to men’s ideas of how they were “supposed” to be were treated, for example.)

By: R.

R. — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:44:46 +0000

There is great photo management software for Linux. What I miss is a photo management program that is not stuck to Wine or either KDE or GNOME libs.

When will we see a suckless photo management tool?

By: mulenmar

mulenmar — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:23:16 +0000

To use a chemistry analogy, the Internet wasn’t one of the reactants (stuff put in) in the change, it was a catalyst for what was already there — human nature, specifically the need to feel important. To be important, is to have others listen to what you think.

Facebook, Myspace, Twitter — these services dissimenate ideas to a much broader audience in a short period of time, without the filter of the source necessarily being known and recognized for intelligent ideas. This, I think, causes an illusion that people are becoming stupider overall because of the Internet, when everyone was no less stupid before — they just didn’t have a voice.

I am of course aware of the irony of my presenting my opinions on this subject. I’m quite possibly a bit inaccurate, it’s been a long day.

By: Links 31/3/2010: KDE Software Compilation 4.4.2, New GNOME Journal | Techrights

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:52:07 +0000

[...] What Linux needs Because what Linux needs is people who want to use Linux. I said a long time ago that if Linux was Windows, nobody would need Linux. By corollary, if what you need is Windows, don’t tell me Linux has shortcomings. Linux doesn’t need application X, it needs someone who is so prepossessed with the idea of creating application X that they spearhead an independent movement to duplicate it, gather a few like-minded and talented peers, and as a group they roll up their sleeves and get to work making application X. [...]

By: Todd Partridge

Todd Partridge — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:45:19 +0000

Well, Ubuntu does pander to Windows users. One of my first treks in Linux was for just as such: a photo management application. Should I be using Windows. I hope not. I like my Linux very much, thank ya kindly. I still have, and use, Windows. It’s just one of those little treks into the unknown, liking the view and then discover you don’t have any water at the moment revalations. Kinda unlike you K, get a new computer… already looking for a speeding ticket .

By: ICE-M

ICE-M — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:25:55 +0000

i was looking for a foobar replacement in terms of looks and fell and i found goggles music manager. i don’t know for what u use foobar2000, but have a look at it: http://code.google.com/p/gogglesmm/

By: CorkyAgain

CorkyAgain — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:30:10 +0000

It happens everywhere, not just on Linux.

On FreeBSD, “Why doesn’t installing packages work the way it does on Linux?”

In Seattle, “Why aren’t there any deli’s like the ones I used to go to in New York City?”

… and everywhere the answer is the same, “If you don’t like the way we do things here, go back to where you came from.”