{"id":1093,"date":"2017-04-30T15:10:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T04:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2017-04-30T15:10:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T04:10:01","slug":"well-done-gnome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=1093","title":{"rendered":"Well done GNOME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now volumes have been written about why Canonical will <a href=\"https:\/\/insights.ubuntu.com\/2017\/04\/05\/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence\/\">replace its own Unity<\/a> desktop with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnome.org\/\">GNOME<\/a> so I won&#8217;t bother to express any further opinion on the matter. The only thing I will say is well done GNOME!<\/p>\n<p>I use KDE, but GNOME is awesome too. No doubt Canonical will hack the shit out of it, but nonetheless a real open source project will get a hell of amount of publicity from the move.<\/p>\n<p>Forking Linux distributions is hard, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.martin-graesslin.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/mir-in-kubuntu\/\">developing display servers<\/a> is hard and developing desktop environments is even harder so often it&#8217;s just best to use what&#8217;s already being actively developed.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, enjoy some exciting developments in Plasma land&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q-Oof_CRNG4\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now volumes have been written about why Canonical will replace its own Unity desktop with GNOME so I won&#8217;t bother to express any&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20,21,27,1],"tags":[146,202,141,140,97,203],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kde","category-kubuntu","category-linux","category-open-source","category-uncategorized","tag-canonical","tag-gnome","tag-kde-2","tag-plasma","tag-ubuntu","tag-unity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1095,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}