Hi There, This discussion will be an endless one - as there will always be people who don't like it; and people who do. Change always hurts, because you need to learn computing anew. And it's difficult for many to be humble enough to say you don't know how to do it - if you already know how to do it somewhere else. > One thing is sure: Your new user-base will not be your current (old) > user-base. Well, there will be overlap. I liked Gnome2, I adore Gnome3. It is where computing is going, like it or not. What we now know as desktops will in the not so very distant future be used only for servers and other large storage devices. Computing will be entirely mobile, and envision a little device on your collar (possibly in combination with glasses, but preferably without) that reads and responds to your arm movements, and projects your computing environment in front/around you. A keyboard will no longer be a physical thing, it'll be projected on the surface in front of you... Gnome3 is - although far from there - going in that direction. It is - like stated elsewhere - very suitable for PADs (I call them tablets, but whatever). On Desktops it's very possible to multitask btw, as long as you have a rather wide display... Then you don't need everything full screen. :) The movements needed for use of Gnome3 are very much Grab and Drag. I can see myself doing this sitting in the garden with a matchbox strapped to my collar... Meanwhile, many things do indeed need to change, or at least be improved in Gnome3 (Fedora 15 is my only reference). Indeed, Power Off (Shut Down, whatever you wish to call it) needs to be there standard - and not through a plugin (btw, yes, there's the Are you Sure option, where you can also decide to reboot). I'm looking for a better notification/taskbar equivalent. Right now, only the program on top is shown. More space needs to be made for more open programs. For example, I use XChat while gaming. There is no notification what so ever when there's activity on the chat channel - because there's no space for anything to blink. And there are more things, but they've been repeated ad nausea (is that the spelling) so I won't do it here. > I'd expect people, who are attracted by the kind of GUI, Gnome 3 tries > to implement, to choose the original, i.e. Apple, Microsoft or Google's > products over Gnome 3 (which means them not ot use Linux). There certainly will be some going that way. I am not, and I know a few people who are with me. P.S. Sorry, this mail took overnight to compose; a crying kid can be awfully distracting. :) -- Greetz, Roelof Kusters aka Ben The internet isn't a highway, it's a swamp: the more you surf, the more it draws you in. Make 1000 euros in minutes! Sell my house: http://www.bentrein.com/house -- 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
