Hi! Some background. I am GNOME desktop user since version 2.xx (since 2008). I used gnome applications almost for the whole period except brief time when used KDE environment. I am linux programmer and contributed into several projects. Question: approximately since gnome 3.0 (2011 or 2012 - don't remember) I am witnessing usability degredation which makes using GNOME environment inconvenient. In particular, I am complaining on removing ability to set various options. I witnessed this happening with various applications, so I suspect some programming paradigm shift since GNOME 3.0 (gnome shell appearance is irrelevant to my question). So, why does GNOME limits ability to configure applications or lacks basic features (see below? Lacking ability to set options has been slowly progressing for several years. Usually I solved these issues by adapting to them, but recently I decided to reconsider the approach. Today I removed applications which I usually use instead of gnome ones and installed full GNOME stack and tried to rely only on them. So, here are complains. 1. Gnome browser does not have 'Edit Preferences' panel. It would be good, for example, to make it *not* to open last visited page. 2. Gedit also does not have such panel. For example, it could be used to make gedit by default *not* to use 8 bytes tab. I remember there was such option in the past. 3. Gnome Music lacks 'Open File' menu. Currently it can only open those files, which are tracked by tracker. This design choice makes the app to fully depend on functioning the tracker (better to call it 'Tracker player'). 4. Tracker itself does not track mp3 files which do not contain audio tag information. The reasoning behind this constraint is unclear. Currrent design forces doing following steps to play audio-tags-less file in default music application: install f.e. easytag -> add audio tags to file -> track the file with tracker -> open file in gnome-music. 4a. It seems that even after adding audio tags still not all files are displayed. 5. Gedit lacks ability to display line numbers in the left. It would be usefull for programmers. I remember there was such option in the past. 6. Gnome shell lacks 'Run-as' button. Currently can be overcomed with alt-F2. AFAIK, in gnome 2 this option was in the main menu. 7. Nautilus lacks backspace button behavior. Google recommends to set <Actions>/ShellActions/Up option ot to use Alt+Backspace, but both of them don't work. Backspace was definetely working in previous versions. I consider all these issues to be not random, but a consistent policy for several years. So, what the reason behind it? P. S. I am not a list subscriber. _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
