On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Gnome 3 is designed for a touch interface. The majority of touch > interfaces are mobile phones. Touch interfaces on computers are a > minority. Gnome 3 is a poor mobile phone interface, but that doesn't > mean it's a good laptop or desktop one. Touch screen is not the > reality for the majority of office workers for example, and I do > wonder how useful it would be at all to them. I flew to Atlanta recently and saw a number of people using iPads in the Bluetooth-keyboard-mounted configuration. It was ghastly to watch - they'd type a bit, then poke the screen, type some more, poke some more, ... I really can't imagine doing serious knowledge work without a mouse or at least a trackpad. And I despise trackpads. I use GNOME 3 with a mouse and keyboard. I like it. I can't imagine using it on a phone or a tablet. I *think* what the GNOME 3 designers (and the Unity bastardization of GNOME 3) were going for was an interface that *could* be used either on a touch screen or a "conventional" KVM setup. I've also tried both Cinnamon and MATE on both Fedora and Linux Mint. Really, with a few mouse clicks, you can customize *any* Linux desktop *except* GNOME 3 to be Mac-like (menu in the upper left) or Windows-like (menu in the lower left) and can add panels, taskbars, etc. > > -- > imalone > http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/znmeb; Computational Journalism on a Stick http://j.mp/CompJournoStick/ The National Coal Institute reminds you, "There's no fuel like an old fuel." -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
