Gnome 3

[Avenue]

Gnome 3 visual tour

am I the only one why thinks that this is a bad idea....

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

I played with it last month and seems to be an attempt to get some Eye-Kandy KDE users to switch to GNOME.

I will rather switch the LXDE than use this crap.

 

[grayston]

I played with it last month and seems to be an attempt to get some Eye-Kandy KDE users to switch to GNOME.

I will rather switch the LXDE than use this crap.

Why is it crap?

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

I thought it was quite nifty actually.

 

[Avenue]

I get the impression that they are creating change for the sake of change- and have actually made things a little more gimmicky, instead of functional.

It seems to require more clicks to do the same tasks, and still does not address some of the functionality that people have been asking for. Eg allowing each desktop to have their own backgrounds and icons etc.

These are my initial thoughts, but Im going to wait for the final product before I judge it, but I must say, by reading the response on the internet, I think they are going to loose a large number of users

 

[grayston]

I get the impression that they are creating change for the sake of change- and have actually made things a little more gimmicky, instead of functional.

It seems to require more clicks to do the same tasks, and still does not address some of the functionality that people have been asking for. Eg allowing each desktop to have their own backgrounds and icons etc.

These are my initial thoughts, but Im going to wait for the final product before I judge it, but I must say, by reading the response on the internet, I think they are going to loose a large number of users

Ok.

 

[Eonblack]

Ergonomics are very important to me, I like to do everything in one go, It also annoys me a lot when Desktop environments try to look flashy at the expense of system resources. Even on a Athlon II X2 with 4gb of ram I'd still rather pounce around in XFCE than Win7, and If I want to be flashy I'll use Compiz and emerald, so stupid.

 

[hawker]

I've been reading up on GNOME 3. I reckon its totally unusable. If they decide to launch 10.10 with it, I will be jumping ship too XFCE .

Its just too counter-intuitive for me, too many clicks to get simple things done. I think they just coding something for the sake of coding it.

 

[Zombrainy]

The only problems I have;
I can't move the main panel to the bottom.
Because the panel only focuses on your current program, you have to alt-tab to access anything that's minimised (Keeping all programs grouped on the panel works, why change it?).
It doesn't work well with compiz (although apparently you will be able to use add-ons similar to compiz when it's completed, so this is not necessarily a problem)

 

[pkid]

I tried Gnome Shell a few months ago. It looks flashy but I just couldn't get used to it.

 

[Tassidar]

In fairness to gnome3, functionality is still pretty limited. I'll be interested to see how it develops.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Why is it crap?

Reason, as per Eonblack:

Ergonomics are very important to me, I like to do everything in one go, It also annoys me a lot when Desktop environments try to look flashy at the expense of system resources. Even on a Athlon II X2 with 4gb of ram I'd still rather pounce around in XFCE than Win7, and If I want to be flashy I'll use Compiz and emerald, so stupid.

Agree 100% here and my dev machine has same specs!

 

[milomak]

seems like a KDE4 clone

 

[Smiley_lauf]

Give them a chance--they are getting heavy crits from power users alike. What like about it is different, so getting used to it will be learning curve. They must just morph the OS X concept of global menus and dock and move on, instead of gradually mimicking OS X style and then denying it.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

If I wanted OS-X style I would get OS-X!

But this is the beauty of the Linux world, choice!