Think of all the time wasted by the (hundreds of thousands of?) users all over the world trying to relearn how to use their major, everyday tool! Steve Jobs reportedly reminded his developers early on something like this: If it takes 10 extra seconds to boot Mac, multiply that by the millions or users all over the world once or twice a day. Specifically re Gnome 3 failure: Whereas I used to be able to open documents that I use everyday or so by just clicking on the desktop icon, I now have to 1. Find the app icon in my Dash--on my 10" relatively hi-res screen, that can take time, since the icons are very small. 2. Click on the app in the dash and wait while it opens. 3. Take time to go to "File," click "Open", find my document and click on it to open it. This is not progress. Another: I used to be able to move to a different app/document by clicking on the document in the bottom panel Now I have to 1. Alt-tab to get the screen that has the different apps 2. Continue to alt-tab till I've selected the right app. 3. If I'm lucky, the new app/document now can be worked on. 4. But what if I have more than one document open in that app? Then alt-tab fails me. I have to either move my cursor to the right doc while continuing to hold down alt-tab, which is well nigh impossible if I'm not using a mouse, or give up and waste more time going to the Activities screen and try to find the right document there, which is also a problem, since the icons all tend to look alike and most of the labels are seriously truncated. So I'm supposed to waste even more time installing and experimenting with alien desktops, gradually learning whether or not they have the features I need? Come on. _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
