My Journey to Becoming a Linux End User on Linux Mint

scottalanmiller

The Linux one is far more compact and useful, way easier to organize and track what is going on. Both are fine, not a big deal. But one is clearly more designed around use and the other around screenshots. Lots of graphics and open space rather than focusing on actually doing what is needed.

Dashrender

Awww.. you aren't disconnecting them. Yeah I won't use Skype like that either. I break it into the two windows, one for the list of users, and another for hte chat windows.

scottalanmiller

@johnhooks said:

No this is all in Linux. I was saying I tried it with two different icon packs and it was still the same.

Oh, I see. Well if you are switching icon packs you'd not be using the ones that the package, right? What distro is that? On Linux Mint it certainly has only the right icon. That fur seal thing does not show up ever.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

Awww.. you aren't disconnecting them. Yeah I won't use Skype like that either. I break it into the two windows, one for the list of users, and another for hte chat windows.

How do you do that? I see how to make it one window per conversation but not two total.

stacksofplates

@scottalanmiller said:

@johnhooks said:

No this is all in Linux. I was saying I tried it with two different icon packs and it was still the same.

Oh, I see. Well if you are switching icon packs you'd not be using the ones that the package, right? What distro is that? On Linux Mint it certainly has only the right icon. That fur seal thing does not show up ever.

it's Fedora 22. The what shows up when you have an open connection? That's the default connection icon.

scottalanmiller

If that's the default icon, what is the X2Go icon for?

stacksofplates

@scottalanmiller said:

If that's the default icon, what is the X2Go icon for?

The x2go manager app.

scottalanmiller

@johnhooks said:

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Oh, wait, ONLY for an existing, open connection?

stacksofplates

@scottalanmiller said:

@johnhooks said:

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Oh, wait, ONLY for an existing, open connection?

Yes. Did imgur break again?

scottalanmiller

No, but you had an extra [ in your filename right in the middle.

stacksofplates

@scottalanmiller said:

No, but you had an extra [ in your filename right in the middle.

I uploaded it and it didn't work so I backspaced everything, but must have missed that one.

scottalanmiller

I see, it is a SESSION icon, not a desktop icon. What's the complaint then? It is an icon meant to help you identify individual sessions and not X2Go. That's a singular case of something different than we would normally be talking about with icon sets since it is a different thing and the purpose of it is for you to have unique identification for each session to help you find what you need quickly. They make it super apparent that you are supposed to change it to something that you can identify.

I think that that is a far stretch from "open source projects have weird icons." This is a unique case and it is what it is for an important reason and it isn't a desktop icon but a running app icon for the toolbar.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

Awww.. you aren't disconnecting them. Yeah I won't use Skype like that either. I break it into the two windows, one for the list of users, and another for hte chat windows.

How do you do that? I see how to make it one window per conversation but not two total.

yeah, I guess it's one window for the user list. .and one additional per conversation.. which is my prefernce.

stacksofplates

@scottalanmiller said:

I see, it is a SESSION icon, not a desktop icon. What's the complaint then? It is an icon meant to help you identify individual sessions and not X2Go. That's a singular case of something different than we would normally be talking about with icon sets since it is a different thing and the purpose of it is for you to have unique identification for each session to help you find what you need quickly. They make it super apparent that you are supposed to change it to something that you can identify.

I think that that is a far stretch from "open source projects have weird icons." This is a unique case and it is what it is for an important reason and it isn't a desktop icon but a running app icon for the toolbar.

I didn't realize that's what it was when I said that before. That's why I said this above

Ah ic, that's the default icon for the agent.

stacksofplates

However, like I said, IMO even their normal icon has a little to be desired. I think it would be a lot better though if they included an svg icon instead of an undersized png.

Eh it might even be an svg, it just looks really dated to me.

scottalanmiller

@johnhooks said:

However, like I said, IMO even their normal icon has a little to be desired. I think it would be a lot better though if they included an svg icon instead of an undersized png.

Sure, they could spiffy it up. But it at least is a sensible icon.

s.hackleman

I know exactly where you are coming from. I am currently using OSX with VM Fusion running a Windows 7 domain connected box, and a Linux Mint system all as full screen side by side desktops. OSX and Windows have shared user file space, so the Desktop and Documents has the same files, and I can just change OS with a 3 finger swipe. I haven't found a perfect 1 size fits all OS. Somethings I prefer doing in Mac, Some things work better in Windows, and occasionally I need something in Linux. Having the option to "change" OS's instantly with a swipe works best for me.

scottalanmiller

Well, after some testing I am making the full leap now. My laptop is installing Linux Mint 17.2 as we speak. @ataylor14 is getting my "old" laptop, which is actually the newer one, in a week so I need to be ready to make the transition now.

scottalanmiller

I am now on Linux Mint native. So far it is working really well. Only thing that I have not figured out that is important is two finger scroll gestures that I am used to elsewhere by default these days. Although I need a mouse for this setup anyway so once I have that it won't matter so much regardless.

stacksofplates

@scottalanmiller said:

I am now on Linux Mint native. So far it is working really well. Only thing that I have not figured out that is important is two finger scroll gestures that I am used to elsewhere by default these days. Although I need a mouse for this setup anyway so once I have that it won't matter so much regardless.

I just installed it on a laptop last night. It had the option under the touchpad settings. You could also turn natural scrolling on.