On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> * Gnome 3 is going the I-know-better-then-you-what's-good-for-you >>> way. >> >> Sure by giving you an extension system that allows you to do whatever >> you want with the desktop .... >> > > Is anyone doing that? https://extensions.gnome.org/ ... seems so ;) >> >>> * We think Gnome 3 is doing similar type of mistake as Windows 8. >> >> GNOME3 has nothing to do with windows 8 other than both work better on >> touch devices then previous releases .... supporting new hardware >> isn't really a bad thing imo. > > And neither much contemplated that the interface that's appropriate > for a mobile phone is not appropriate for a desktop. GNOME 3 is not a mobile phone interface. Repeating that multiple times does not make it true. > I still use Gnome > 3, despite the many helpful suggestions to change. I don't find it > quite as annoying as Windows 8 (where it's sometimes hard even to know > how to close down an app), but I do find that: > 1. I no longer use workspaces to manage different tasks unless there > are lots of windows and then I sometimes overflow onto 2. This is > because they're less useful as you now can't switch without going to > the activities view and they aren't segregated well. You have a keyboard Crtl-Alt-<up/down> works fine (Odd on a "mobile phone interface" but you can do a lot of things with the keyboard). And now I think this thread is going nowhere lets stop here. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
