Are there any problems with 20.10?

[Bret Busby]

On 23/11/2020, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Am Montag, den 23.11.2020, 10:41 +0000 schrieb Bret Busby:
>>
>>
>> I do not know whether this obstructing access to applications
>> packages, by concealing the names of the packages, is a "feature" of
>> UbuntuMATE 20.10, or, the new look of Ubuntu, itself.
>>
> it is a "feature" of the GNOME design team trying to simplfy GNOME in a
> way that users do not need to know application names but onl their
> functions by the desktop entry, you will find it in all official GNOME
> apps (Totem -> "Videos", gedit -> "Editor", Epiphany -> "Web", etc).
>
> has nothing to do with Ubuntu, this just gets inherited from upstream.
>
> ciao
> 	oli
>

Thank you for that clarification.

The gnomes of gnome appear to have gone increasingly wonky and
increased their disregard for users, since they replaced the
user-friendly gnome-2 with gnome-3, so as to discourage use of the
gnome interface.


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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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