Jan has my sympathy. I joined this list shortly before the change and
was truly appalled when Gnome 3 was imposed on me. I thought I was
upgrading Fedora and was faced with a new and incomprehensible desktop,
which felt like everything I was trying to get away from on Windows and
MACs. I think Fedora was at fault here. Gnome 3 was a step-change, not
an upgrade. Perhaps it is still possible to get Gnome3 to behave more
like Gnome 2 but in order to do this I have to learn how to use the new
Gnome 3 before I can get back to the old ways.
I think we are at a fork in the desktop user interface. There will be
users who mostly use tablets, and when they come to a PC will wish to
use a similar interface. Others like myself prefer the keyboard and
mouse and clunky, old, easily-comprehensible ways of working. We have
come a long way in the last 40 years and I would not want to go back to
punch cards and paper tape, but I cannot see that stuff like Gnome 3 is
going to make me more productive in my remaining years.
Barry
Jan Mussche wrote:
Hello,
I have joined this mailing list since I feel I have to get in close
contact to the people who have taken away all the fun in computing.
After having used Linux with great joy for several years, I am now
very disappointed. The new Gnome 3, sorry for my language, stinks.
How can somebody come up with the idea to turn a computer into a
smartphone or tablet? What were you thinking?
Gnome 2.32 was flexible, 3.x is not flexible at all. Are you sponsored
by Microsoft because it sure looks like it, since Microsoft also tells
us how to use a computer.
We are stuck with a top panel nobody wants, because it is useless.
We are stuck with a way of using the computer nobody wants since it is
simply madness.
Also you must have seen the many comments of different forums where
people complain about the new Gnome and who are starting to use KDE,
LXDE and/or XFCE. Is that what you want? Was that the plan, scaring
away people? If so then why bother making a new Gnome, you could have
better just stopped completely.
Now Linux distributions are trying their best to make the interface
look as much as possible to what it used to be but they are hindered
by your way of presenting things, without any flexibility at all.
If you want people to keep using Gnome you simply have to change back
to what Gnome was. If not you will see a large decrease of people
hanging on to it and I can not say it in a different way: this is what
you deserve.
One very unhappy Linux user.
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