![]() ![]() I was willing to put up w/ many things from the heavily disfunctional v3 kernel dumping use of metacity - but, when I discovered that the Audacious program had lost its ability to make the graphics large enough to interact with, I abandoned thoughts of upgrading to any of the v3 kernel environments. (Interesting note: I read an interview w/ Linus Torvaldis, where he said that he intended to switch to xfce/Xubuntu, just to get away from Unity/Gnome3.) One evening w/ Unity, and I came to the conclusion it was the very worst DUI I'd ever seen in 30 years of personal computing. ![]() Color management controls became primitive & unwieldy in every desktop I tried. Debian released Wheezy, Ubuntu released v12.04 LTS. ![]() Once the Linux v3 kernel was released, suddenly every programmer on the net, and all their cousins made a leap to immediately press it into use. ![]() But the graphic mapping of functions & lettering on my high-res display was WAY too small to use - until I discovered the "scale" function. It had the nicely functional WinAmp-style skin as it interface, managed a large playlist without problems, etc. They were only in the way, and they continually nagged to update or exchange data with online repositories of data. Most were far too involved with heavy database activities which I found to be useless. When I started using Linux, I found that most of the audio players sucked. I, also, joined this forum for exactly one reason: To urge reinstatement of the scaling capability. ![]()
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