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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.
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And 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.
It’s just the same people who’ve been already maintaining the Linux kernel for some time, finally openly committing to be mindful of other people’s feelings when dealing with them, to not shit on other people when they dislike them or their work. That’s it. This should have happened earlier.
Why did they go with the CoC authored by Coraline Ada Ehmke? Perhaps because it is a sensible one, very widely known and adopted by many other projects, and using an open license. Why wouldn’t they use it?
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It’s just the same people who’ve been already maintaining the Linux kernel for some time, finally openly committing to be mindful of other people’s feelings when dealing with them, to not shit on other people when they dislike them or their work. That’s it. This should have happened earlier.
Why did they go with the CoC authored by Coraline Ada Ehmke? Perhaps because it is a sensible one, very widely known and adopted by many other projects, and using an open license. Why wouldn’t they use it?
Last edited by silmeth on 23 September 2018 at 5:18 pm UTC
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qptain Nemo Sep 23, 2018
Quoting: scaineEVERYTHING is political.I'm sorry but that is an insidious falsehood. It's entirely possible to live and do things, be kind to others in particular, without political thought.
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Quoting: qptain NemoQuoting: scaineEVERYTHING is political.I'm sorry but that is an insidious falsehood. It's entirely possible to live and do things, be kind to others in particular, without political thought.
Perhaps. Her point was that some people will make anything political, I think. And I suppose that's largely true. I like smarties, but someone will probably point out the evil of nestle to make my eating smarties political. Shop at Amazon or Starbucks? They don't pay their taxes - boycott them! And so on.
This should be simple. It shouldn't be political. But like when anarchists infiltrate a peaceful protest and start rioting, the same approach can be taken with something like a CoC. Some people will make anything a political movement.
What bugs me about this is the motivation. I just don't get it.
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I haven't really been paying much attention to all the political nonsense lately, I stopped years ago when I realized it was stressing me out and effecting my health. I suppose there could be some kinda political agenda hidden in that Code of Conduct, but I certainly didn't notice it.
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Quoting: WYWQuoting: GuestQuoting: TuxeeThis is the most retarded "excuse" I've ever heard for abandoning a project. Being an open source contributor myself it has never occurred to me that some CoC for the Linux kernel has anything in the farthest to do with my work. This dude is working on a GUI tool written in Python - is he aware that the Python project has had a CoC for ages?You broke the hypocrisy meter on the second page. Good job!
https://www.r-word.org/
Yah folk, the r word is offensive and ableist. Ableism is discrimination and social prejudice against people with disabilities.
I believe this to be hateful conduct and you will soon be informed of the projects you have been terminated from. /s
See the issue yet?
There is no issue. GOLs code of conduct asks to keep swearing to a minimum, and if you step over that line too much, perhaps Liam will ban you, and if so, you probably had it coming long before the ban hammer fell.
Personally, I detest the word "retarded" as much as you're making out, but having a CoC doesn't mean you get insta-banned for using it. It means you get a warning, then probably a moderation ban, then perhaps a user ban. It's a process, designed, like every CoC out there, to ensure that you get plenty of opportunity to change your ways. To encourage you to be respectful.
People who can't do such a simple thing? We're better off without them.
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Expect more and more of this. Just when GNU/Kernel was FINALLY getting to the point of being a viable platform for gaming, in come the corporate proxies shoving this COC and their politics down our collective throats. We DID not NEED this. We're already the underdog. And to the people supporting the COC, still think it's doing more good than harm?
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Quoting: qptain NemoWrong. Even by not being political, you support a status quo, which is a political act in itself, by intention or not (intention is irrelevant, only action counts).Quoting: scaineEVERYTHING is political.I'm sorry but that is an insidious falsehood. It's entirely possible to live and do things, be kind to others in particular, without political thought.
Quoting: scaine"SJW people are like cancer". You think that people who want inclusiveness and respect... are like cancer. I can't respond to that.If only that really was what SJW were actually about, most people wouldn't mind. As many political movements, it may have started out "pure" and with good intentions, and a few good-hearted souls might still believe in that.
But by now it has turned into this blindly frothing lynch mob trying to get everyone fired/doxxed/banned for disagreeing with their views.
And don't get me started on sexism/homophobic/transphobic/racism/etc. cards which can be played at will and always call the crusade right to someone's door, no matter how far fetched.
Just look at the whole absurd Jessica Price thing or the "debate" about not including black/queer/etc. people in a historical depiction of 13th century rural Czech Republic... that is what SJWs are to me, overzealous.
Last edited by TheSHEEEP on 23 September 2018 at 5:56 pm UTC
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GustyGhost Sep 23, 2018
Quoting: 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.
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Quoting: DolusExpect more and more of this. Just when GNU/Kernel was FINALLY getting to the point of being a viable platform for gaming, in come the corporate proxies shoving this COC and their politics down our collective throats. We DID not NEED this. We're already the underdog. And to the people supporting the COC, still think it's doing more good than harm?
a) 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.
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Did you miss the part where the author of the COC out right said that it was a POLITICAL document?
Quoting: TuxeeI also find it highly amusing that the only ones kicking up a fuss and making it political...are the ones saying it shouldn't be political.
Did you miss the part where the author of the COC out right said that it was a POLITICAL document?
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