On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 10:27 -0400, joncr wrote: > On 05/21/2013 07:38 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > There is a factor here that if someone doesn't want to adapt their > > practices - then any new interface is going to be clumsy... > Even then, there are plenty of extensions designed to bring back the old > panel and menus approach for those who want to stay with that. There is even a suite of extensions ["Legacy"] for exactly that purpose. > The best way to use Gnome Shell is to spend a little bit of time using > it as the designers intend. Find out what you like and what you don't > like, then see if you can fix the "don't like" part with extensions. Yep. <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com/2011/05/fortnight-with-gnome3.html> <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com/2012/09/recommended-gnome3-extensions.html> > I'm not a heavy keyboard user, so I install the DashToDock extension > (turns the Dash into a real configurable dock independent of the > Overview), kill the hot corner and window animations and I'm good to go. I am a heavy keyboarder, and I use DaskToDock as well. Great extension. > It's surprising to me that more than two years on Gnome Shell is still > subject to so much vitriol. Liking Gnome 2 and > regretting its demise is fine. But, all things end. Failing to accept > that, venting bile and attacking people who happen to like Gnome Shell, > all apparently based on the presumption that the developers broke some > kind of sacred obligation, is inappropriate behavior. Yep. What irks me is the *accusing* developers of not listening to users, insisting that things be discussed 'in the open', etc... when all that was true - the poster(s) just either wasn't around then [and it is now a then, not a now] and/or chose not to participate. Someone not choosing to participate means they don't get heard. And sometimes someone is heard - and it still doesn't go that way [has happened to be no small number of times]. If there is *specifically* something someone doesn't like then we can discuss that and possible ways to improve it; but the conspiratorial tone of much of the vitriol simply has no merit in fact. And a large portion is very 'recycled' and complaints that have been answered over and over again [like the gnome-shell-is-for-touch-screens or gnome-shell-is-for-tablets thing]. _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
