On 06/21/2011 12:53 AM, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 10:44 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: >> There is a paradigm shift going from Gnome2 to Gnome3 which I have not >> seen discussed on this list. >> >> Gnome2 is totally mouse oriented. Everything you want to do you do by >> moving the mouse and clicking. Obviously I am rerring to Gnome2 itself >> not applications. >> >> However, in Gnome3 a large fraction of actions have been moved to the >> keyboard. > Found another can of worms to open? ;-) > > It just seems another oddity. Using the mouse, or other pointing > device, was seen as making things easier for the non-computer literate, > who distinctly hated typing for the command line interface. Yet, now, > we're going to make them use the keyboard, albeit for a command line > interface in a GUI... > > Linux has recently been pushed as "must get it onto ordinary desktops," > but who for? (With RHEL and its ilk for corporate, Fedora (and its ilk) > for home.) > > Is a corporation going to want to spend $100 per graphics card per PC, > so that the default Gnome 3 actually works, or are they going to > continue to only want to put in the $20 graphics card? (That just won't > work with the new all-singing, all-dancing, Gnome 3.) So there's the > next RHEL with Gnome shot down in flames. > > Likewise, the *average* home user faces the same quandary, and most > people buy underpowered computers. So that's Fedora out of the > question. > > It's really only the die-hard computer nuts who have the expensive > graphics cards, and those tend to the gamers hooked on Windows games > like World of Warcraft, or whatever the current fad is. So that's > virtually any type of Linux ignored. > > If you do want to run flashy 3D environments on Fedora, are there any > other realistic choices than ATI or Nvidia, and the proprietary drivers, > to get it working? That, also, doesn't look good for Fedora. > > The phrase, "shooting oneself in the foot," springs to mind. > The only machine I have tried Fedora 15 on so far is an Atom powered netbook, with the usual clunky Intel graphics. I was pleased how smoothly all the elaborate screen shuffling works. I'm not sure I'm ever going to like Gnome 3, but graphics performance seems no reason to complain about it. Steve -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
