I couldn't stop laughing whilst reading the entire article.

The one that really got me was the Electron-based “launcher”. I had to take a break for ten minutes.

OP here. Sadly a true story with a "shall not be named" software for optical media management. I just want a Win32 binary that does it's job. Instead, I had to wait 45 seconds every launch until the server "spins up" from working in the background.

CLIs just need better tutorials and wrappers out there. If you've got a bunch of wrappers/helper methods for doing mundane tasks for your OS it should curb most of the frustration and inefficiency.

Computers have always sucked it doesn't matter what OS you're using they're full of undefined behaviour. No one is employed to design the whole and make sure the development environment is integrated to the point where it's as easy as the writer wants it to be.

Alternatively what you'll get too remedy this is some commercial tool that works in a very specific context and with a specific set of services and most likely won't interoperate with other stuff.

That sounds fantastic to see that sort of thing being used out in the open. Aside from using the Ember-electron POS app can customers access other parts of the UI or elementary OS applications? What made you choose elementary OS in particular? I'd imagine the advantage of using it over ubuntu gnome would be fairly minimised if the user would be locked to just a single application.

Customers don't interact with the POS but our staff do. I tried several distributions a couple years ago and found that Elementary had the least amount of clutter in the UI. Our staff are young and most are not technically savvy. For many, an iPhone is their most familiar computing device. This was the environment that seemed most comfortable. The dock bar at the bottom also made it easy to present the limited number of apps they would need.

Yes! You know Dashboard was a completely separate layer. I could watch a video in full screen and take notes with semi transparent stickes. Try doing that in full screen with the stickes app... You can't!

The dashboard feature is totally underrated. What would be even better would be if you could actually put any window in there.

Or if any window could be made semi transparent and float on top. And have that entire layer be toggleable with transitions....

It's total shame that they've removed it entirely.

They seem to be taking more from Apple's take a look at the continuous mission control animations and list view context actions.

I honestly don't think these are the best of Apple's stuff. When I think about these features I can't really see why they decided they were important enough to implement. Perhaps they're trying to generate some excitement about the desktop environment I don't know.

I second this. Minimising windows in mac os is a nuisance because they can auto restore unexpectedly when switching back to the application or clicking on the dock icon.

Gnome is actually quite good I find myself at odds with some of their defaults for workspaces but they're in the right ball park when it comes to aesthetics and organising the UI. I would very much like to have a guake like terminal for mac os. That and a workspace persistent file explorer. But I think that kind of desktop enhancement that is bug free and feature full is hard to come by.

Also since you're on Linux I'm looking for a linux alternative for this tool. https://github.com/chipsenkbeil/choose It's a gui chooser I don't know if such a thing exists for linux. I suspect it might be quite easy to implement one with electron. By the way what I'm not looking for is something like alfred for linux. That would be an overkill.