Re: gnome 3 feedback

[Juanjo Marín <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>]

> I have been using gnome 3 on opensuse for weeks now. Overall it is a good step forward. Much better than 
> gnome 2. I like the new way things are run. 

Great !

> What i don't like: waking up from suspending doesn't work getting passed the log in screen (a bug though so 
> not really relevant here)


You should open a bug report to your distro, eventual they will communicate to the people who can fix it.


> I like the theme, but (i know you're working on better theming for gnome 3.2 and all ) should be more easily 
> available. more transparent theme options too. Take a cue from kde and instead of having to put themes into 
> hidden .icon and .theme folders let us just use a gui in control panel that will do it all for us. 


The project Sweet Tooth will improve the management of extensions/themes. 

 http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/SweetTooth 


> Also, make it more customizable. I understand that you want to keep things simple, so maybe have an advanced 
> view setting in control panel that, when unlocked, allows us to customize things easily again. Like panel 
> size, random colors, etc. Some things still need ui updated, like default icons. Try to keep things cool and 
> modern.


Small changes will come in GNOME 3.2, like changing the font size from the gnome-shell UI


> Also, in control panel, make it easy to clear recent documents and even turn off feature of storing recent 
> documents. Maybe have sometype of better social network integration into the desktop. I think there is the 
> chat thing but maybe expand it further? unless there is already some program that does that?


There is work under the way:

- Integration with Zeitgeist, including options for turning off the logs 

http://seilo.geekyogre.com/2011/04/zeitgeist-work-towards-gnome-3-2/

http://seilo.geekyogre.com/2011/04/gnome-shell-experiments/

http://seilo.geekyogre.com/2011/04/the-crazy-zeitgeist-week/


- Integration with social networks,

http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2011/06/13/announcing-gnome-contacts/

http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/IMContactsSocial2011


> But great work overall, you created a brand new interface and it is a much nicer way to use computer. I'm 
> happy that you did not just copy stuff and the result is, in my opinion, the best ui i've used.  keep up 
> good work, I hope i emailed the proper email address to give my feedback


It seems GNOME is already working on the direction you suggest :-)

Cheers,

  -- Juanjo Marin