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Here's what's new in 0.4.5:
- On-screen keyboard can be now used with DS4 gamepad
- Improved editing profile using controller
- Allowed SVG custom menu icons
- Allowed displaying multiple OSD messages, with different font size and display time
- Bug fixes
In the release notes, the developer Kozec said this:
This is last SC-Controller release for a while. With all that mess happening around Linux this week, I've decided to move away as far as possible. I plan to finish all "enhancements" eventually, just not right now.
They went into further detail in a Patreon post, here's the gist of it:
As you probably already heard, earlier this week, Linux became part of political movement. It's movement that I strongly disagree with and wish to not be associated with in any way. Because of that, I don't feel welcomed in Linux community anymore.
Or, to write it like human being, with all this mess, coding is not fun at all.
So I'm throwing hands up and walking through the middle.
For those who don't really understand, it's likely as a result of the new Code of Conduct for the Linux Kernel. Something that has become a hot sticky mess in the wider community. Regardless of my own feelings about the CoC, I just hope people can find a way to get along and treat everyone with respect, regardless of who they are and where they come from.
I'm pretty sad about this, I use SC Controller practically every day for taming the Steam Controller outside of Steam and for those Steam games that don't detect it normally.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Happy for people to discuss such stuff, but please do remember GOL is a sanctuary for everyone to be involved. I don't want to see any hateful speech directed at any groups here please, no stupid snide remarks either about gender or anything.
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Arehandoro Sep 23, 2018
All these years thinking the Linux community was highly composed by a bunch of tech-o-hippiepunks only to realise in the last weeks I was wrong...
Let me tell you something, I landed on Linux because it was political all along. And I like it this way.
Let me tell you something, I landed on Linux because it was political all along. And I like it this way.
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Quoting: silmethAnd what’s IMO is worth pointing out – the kernel maintainers remain the same kernel maintainers. There are no personal changes into some hidden “SJW infiltrators”, whoever that would be.
Oh, really? You sure about that?
https://twitter.com/_sagesharp_/status/1042769399596437504
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Quoting: scainea) there's no corporate oversight here. It's the kernel, business as usual. Proxies? Please, give the conspiracy theories a rest. No-one is "shoving" anything down anyone's throats.
b) many, many other projects have a CoC. It was long overdue for the kernel.
c) being the underdog doesn't mean you get to shit on people because of a lack of CoC. Having respect should be an absolute minimum for any project, open-source or otherwise.
d) yes, it will do good in the long term, once the dust settles. This is like Ubuntu's CoC all over again.
Oh yes, and the FreeBSD COC has done wonders for that project, hasn't it? Oh, wait, no. Contributions are down and they're getting half of what they were receiving in donations last year.
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Quoting: ArehandoroLet me tell you something, I landed on Linux because it was political all along. And I like it this way.
"Linux" was never political even about software freedom, that was the FSF's shtick.
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Quoting: GustyGhostQuoting: scainelike every CoC out there, to ensure that you get plenty of opportunity to change your ways. To encourage you to be respectful.
At the risk of sounding contrarian, I would rather be in a place where people can be disrespectful yet honest with each other and with themselves than in a place which polices what they can say. Even if it is uncomfortable. Although I understand why such an atmosphere wouldn't be for everyone.
Happily, I think you're in a minority. And oddly, given your position, your reply to me was incredibly respectful: "at the risk of sounding contrarian <I respectfully disagree>".
A CoC won't prevent you saying things that are uncomfortable. They'll stop you saying things that are abusive, harmful, personal attacks. And as I keep saying, the people who want this are the same people who, in the past, could make such attacks on a whim, with no repercussion.
Anyone here use Gnome? Do you hate their CoC? How about Ubuntu? Anyone still running X.org? You more of a Wayland fan? KDE float your boat?
Honestly, I'm sick of talking about this. The scaremongering and political agenda behind the "anti-SJW" movement is too depressing for words.
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Arehandoro Sep 23, 2018
Quoting: liamdaweHappy for people to discuss such stuff, but please do remember GOL is a sanctuary for everyone to be involved. I don't want to see any hateful speech directed at any groups here please, no stupid snide remarks either about gender or anything.
That comment sounds like a CoC to me :P
P.S: I agree with your comment, just trying to lower down the tension.
Quoting: GustyGhostQuoting: scainelike every CoC out there, to ensure that you get plenty of opportunity to change your ways. To encourage you to be respectful.
At the risk of sounding contrarian, I would rather be in a place where people can be disrespectful yet honest with each other and with themselves than in a place which polices what they can say. Even if it is uncomfortable. Although I understand why such an atmosphere wouldn't be for everyone.
I wonder what kind of disrespect does someone need to express to a kernel patcher/maintainer/whatever aside of their coding capabilities?
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Quoting: scaineQuoting: GustyGhostQuoting: scainelike every CoC out there, to ensure that you get plenty of opportunity to change your ways. To encourage you to be respectful.
At the risk of sounding contrarian, I would rather be in a place where people can be disrespectful yet honest with each other and with themselves than in a place which polices what they can say. Even if it is uncomfortable. Although I understand why such an atmosphere wouldn't be for everyone.
Happily, I think you're in a minority. And oddly, given your position, your reply to me was incredibly respectful: "at the risk of sounding contrarian <I respectfully disagree>".
A CoC won't prevent you saying things that are uncomfortable. They'll stop you saying things that are abusive, harmful, personal attacks. And as I keep saying, the people who want this are the same people who, in the past, could make such attacks on a whim, with no repercussion.
Anyone here use Gnome? Do you hate their CoC? How about Ubuntu? Anyone still running X.org? You more of a Wayland fan? KDE float your boat?
Honestly, I'm sick of talking about this. The scaremongering and political agenda behind the "anti-SJW" movement is too depressing for words.
Address this: https://twitter.com/_sagesharp_/status/1042769399596437504
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Quoting: ArehandoroThe COC goes for what you say outside of the project too, apparently. Check the link I just posted. The witch hunts have begun.Quoting: liamdaweHappy for people to discuss such stuff, but please do remember GOL is a sanctuary for everyone to be involved. I don't want to see any hateful speech directed at any groups here please, no stupid snide remarks either about gender or anything.
That comment sounds like a CoC to me :P
P.S: I agree with your comment, just trying to lower down the tension.
Quoting: GustyGhostQuoting: scainelike every CoC out there, to ensure that you get plenty of opportunity to change your ways. To encourage you to be respectful.
At the risk of sounding contrarian, I would rather be in a place where people can be disrespectful yet honest with each other and with themselves than in a place which polices what they can say. Even if it is uncomfortable. Although I understand why such an atmosphere wouldn't be for everyone.
I wonder what kind of disrespect does someone need to express to a kernel patcher/maintainer/whatever aside of their coding capabilities?
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Arehandoro Sep 23, 2018
Quoting: DolusQuoting: ArehandoroLet me tell you something, I landed on Linux because it was political all along. And I like it this way.
"Linux" was never political even about software freedom, that was the FSF's shtick.
And well done.
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