It would be nice to have a tag dedicated to unixy desktop environments and GUIs: GNOME, KDE, XFCE, etc. It could also be used for related projects such as GTK, Qt, X11, Wayland, Arcan and so on.
Currently the most similar tag is “graphics”, but my personal understanding is that that tag is for stories that discuss things like 3D engines, dithering algorithms, or animations.
I don’t know what the best tag name could be: desktop-environments? de? gui?
Examples of such past stories on Lobsters:
- https://lobste.rs/s/mc5kkx/how_right_click
- https://lobste.rs/s/drulip/desktop_for_all
- https://lobste.rs/s/zesiyv/20_years_linux_on_desktop_part_1
- https://lobste.rs/s/0sst1q/why_i_use_kde
- https://lobste.rs/s/7fcwig/accessible_arcan_out_sight
- https://lobste.rs/s/sbj2ov/introducing_gnome_47_denver
- https://lobste.rs/s/4aupcw/gnome_files_detailed_ui_examination
- https://lobste.rs/s/n5yzbw/linux_we_need_tiling_desktop
- https://lobste.rs/s/ex2uk5/thoughts_on_desktop_operating_systems
- https://lobste.rs/s/akbosx/update_on_newton_wayland_native
- https://lobste.rs/s/nykxf6/libadwaita_splitting_gtk_design
- https://lobste.rs/s/y1oyxc/automatic_dark_mode_with_openbsd_dwm
- https://lobste.rs/s/6rxu6i/netos_run_freebsd_based_server_desktop
Possible additional candidates:
Yes, absolutely supporting this. I would not concentrate on UNIX desktop environments alone, though. I’d go with
guiand even add something like this:Just
uimaybe?To include TUIs and other non-graphical UIs? That sounds pretty broad. I do like
guithough.What about UI (desktop GUI, TUI, CLI…) excluding web (that has its own tag)?
However, two separate categories (GUI × text UIs) would be also fine.
This would still exclude parts of the user interface outside id the screen though (buttons, speakers, sensors &c.), which is why I thought
uiwould be a better less restrictive tag.I am OK with the
uitag and I even like topics you mentioned (buttons, speakers, sensors etc.). I just wanted to avoid mixing it with the web stuff (e.g. „Hey everybody, I just discovered another way how to style HTML button!!!“). And when something is web-related and also interesting from general UI perspective (applicable e.g. also to desktop environments) it simply deserves both tags,uiandweb.Another thing is that somebody might be interested in text user interfaces, or TUI or CLI or REPL in particular… and do not want to be bothered with web or GUI. It leads to hierarchical tags or categories and to more powerful query language / tool. Maybe we need
taxonomyorsemanticsorontologytags :-)It is also question whether we are looking for the simplest way that brings some improvement (with the risk of getting stuck in a local maximum) or a major shift in quality (with the risk of lot of work).
Um, why only “Unixy” GUIs? That seems way too specific and leaves those of us working on niche systems — Mac, Windows, iOS Android — out in the cold.
Otherwise yes, a
guitag would be great.