On 9 February 2013 12:25, drago01 <drago01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 ;) Is not very useful. 19 pages of unorganised apps. It's not even immediately obvious how to install one (it is not intuitive to me that a slider on a web page should make a change to my desktop). > >>> >>>> * 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 didn't. I implied it would be more suitable as a mobile phone interface. >> 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). > Not my point. My point is that everything is made a little harder, pushed a little further away, in ways that make more efficient working patterns harder. > And now I think this thread is going nowhere lets stop here. In the end, more than any usability quibbles, the best reason to give up on a project is when it refuses to listen to its end users. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
