On 08/10/2011 07:30 PM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: >> I'm using Gnome3 and it actually works quite good. > > A disconcerting aspect of Gnome 3 is that it appears to NOT have been > designed for persons who have already been using Linux for a while. > > For instance -- to launch a not-yet-in-use program the user needs to > click on an 'Applications' button located on the LEFT side. This (for > somebody with lots of programs installed) brings up a screen cluttered > with icons. Gnome 3 provides a menu-list to filter those icons down to > a more manageable number. But that menu-list is on the RIGHT side. > > A tablet user might want such an arrangement -- he could use his left > thumb to touch the 'Applications' button and immediately use his right > thumb to select within the list of filters. But a Linux user with a > substantial-sized screen is forced to TRAVERSE that screen from the one > side to the other. Why not support the applications filter-list to be > configurable to the SAME side as the applications display button ? > > mikus A Linux user such as myself has been using GNOME-DO since the early days (of GNOME-DO) and just types the application name or description. GNOME 3 will then give you a list of apps that match those letters. In no time without moving your mouse you have your application ready to be launched. So efficient and I didn't event need to install a 3rd party library and an extra app. The glass is always half empty or half full, it's really a matter of perspective. Now I do agree that there is a lot of 'traversing' the screen in general, looking for the 'right' workspace is also one of those cases (especially since they self destruct when empty). So I think what's everybody is forgetting and GNOME 3.0 is that it is a DOT ZERO release, some stuff were not finished and 'we' knew it (theming, file history, etc), and some stuff needed to be used by a wider audience. Now now one was forced to run the .0 . Fedora users can still be running F14 which is supported until a few more months, others the same. 3.2 will come with a lot of improvement and maybe people who don't like change or the latest and the greatest might like it better? I for one, see a FOSS project innovating and trying new things and overall with great success. Sure there is some fine tuning needed, but it's coming. Fred _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
