Bill Davidsen writes:
Retraining users to use GNOME3 and finding new tools to do old tasks is asproductive as a decision to change from left hand to right hand drive cars while learning a from an instruction manual written in a language they have to learnfirst. Learning new things is good, having to learn a new way to do the old things, not so much.
The analogy is not quite right. What's the new way for sticking a bunch of applets off to the side of the screen, so they can flash their icons at you whenever something important happens? If this is supposed to be all about productivity, I think it's very much productive to be able to constantly monitor the status of half a dozen apps in realtime, with a minimum of real- estate and without having a bunch of annoying windows constantly popping up.
Even Gnome3 recognizes the value of this concept, because it still does that with NetworkManager, the battery monitor, and a few other things. So, what's so special about those, that doesn't apply to the weather applet, the sensors applet, and all the other applets? I reject the argument that applets are passÃ.
Or, perhaps, I misread the list archives and there's nothing wrong with having applets around, except that most of them haven't been converted to gnome3 yet. Ok then, but perhaps it would've made more sense until most applets have been converted to gnome3, before removing gnome2 entirely.
The new way also allows you to have multiple app windows open on a desktop, so what's the new way equivalent of switching to the application merely by moving the pointer into a window, and have it gain focus and raise to the top of the window stack, automatically, without requiring an extra click? This is a very good way to flip back and forth between multiple windows, without extra pounding on your wrist. So, what's the new way of doing that?
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