I'm confused
Will GNOME’s new Status Icons ad-on support all of the same tray icon that Ubuntu’s kStatus/AppIndicator extension does?
I haven’t been able to test it to find out for sure, but it doesn’t appear to support App Indicators, which is the most commonly-used tray icon spec on Linux…
So ... If this new extension doesn't add tray icons/menus for apps like Zoom, what's the point of it? What features does it add over stock Gnome?
When I was on in Reddit I used to do it all the time, but writing everything out, organizing it and including citations etc. can be rather time-intensive.
These days, I'll leave a quick comment on a post if I have enough time, but nothing major.
I used to be a fan of it, but in the past couple of years I've seen MBFC rate sources as "highly credible" that are anything but, particularly on issues involving geopolitics. That, plus the inherent unreliability of attempting to fix an entire news outlet to a single point on a simple Left <-> Right spectrum, has rendered it pretty useless, in my opinion.
There days I'm much more of the opinion that it's best to read a variety of sources, both mainstream and independent, and consider factors like
And so on. It's much better this way than outsourcing your critical thinking to a third party who may be using a flawed methodology.
I appreciate where you're coming from -- it would be a huge emotional relief to us all to see the killing in Gaza and the West Bank stop.
I just think there is a need to be realistic about the possibility of a meaningful shift when it comes to Palestine under a Harris presidency.
Even so, it would take a significant amount of will and political capital to stand up to Israel, the Israel lobby in the US, the Pro-Israel members of the Democratic Party, and billionaire donors who have been funding her campaign. Kamala just doesn't strike me as the type to take the risk.
I'll be blunt -- and I'm sorry to rain on anyone's parade -- but these reasons are all fluff:
President Kamala Harris has been telling colleagues in the administration that she wants the White House to show more concern publicly for the humanitarian damage in Gaza
As I said, being more sympathetic in public is meaningless if you don't back it up with holding Israel accountable for its actions. This is virtually no different from how Biden handled things.
Harris has argued that it is time to start making “day after” plans for how to handle the wreckage of the war once the fighting ends
"Once the fighting ends"? When Israel feels it has destroyed enough of Gaza and decides to stop, you mean?
she has called for being “more forceful at seeking a long-term peace and two-state solution,” this person said.
Netanyahu and his government of genocidal maniacs want neither peace nor a two-state solution. Netanyahu has explicitly stated this publicly. There is also broad support from the Israeli population in favor of the "war" in Gaza. Even if Netanyahu were removed from power tomorrow, there would still be a huge amount of resistance towards a two-state solution with the Palestinians.
Claiming to be aiming for two-state solution with Israel as it currently stands, without a concrete possibility of sanctions or an arms embargo, is a pipedream that is being used to enable the US to carry on supplying Israel with weapons. Until that supply of weapons is threatened, Israel will carry on doing exactly what it wants and any talk of peace and a ceasefire is little more than hot air.
30 is way too many. Ideally, you want about 4-5 parties in order to maintain a healthy democracy without getting bogged down.
Either way, the two party corporate duopoly of the US ain't it.
Certainly from a mainstream political standpoint he appears to be fairly liberal with some progressive policies. However, the writer is using the term 'leftists' to mean socialists or left-wing "radicals" (whatever that means).
His stance of Israel is really what will be the clincher for leftists, as is the case with Harris. On the plus side, they are both taking a softer line in terms of how they discuss the genocide in public, but of course neither of them would ever utter the phrase with relation to the Palestinians -- that would be too radical.
Therefore, there's a lot of doubt as to whether either of them will break from Biden's policy of continuing to send bombs and military hardware to Israel, as both are apparently very much in the "Israel has the right to defend itself" camp.
The upside for Minnesotans is that this could lead to Peggy Flanagan becoming the new governor, and she sounds reassuringly progressive.
You can bet they have their polling data that says otherwise. Shapiro was a deeply controversial pick who could have killed a lot of the enthusiasm, and he only helps in one individual swing state. ~~Waltz~~ Walz has broad demographic appeal, so they presumably weighed up both and decided that he was the better bet.
Thanks, I'm aware, but that wasn't my question.
This new extension doesn't seem to add support for app indicators.. so what is it for?