Re: Very disappointed in Gnome 3

[Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 02:20:23PM -0400, Mike Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 09:49:49PM -0600, Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> > > I agree.  Too many things are missing.  And why require accelerated
> > > graphics?  GNOME 3 seems to suffer from the attitude that tablets are
> > > the future and desktops and laptops are passe.  I've used GNOME since
> > > the 90's but I'm trying alternatives to find which I like best.
> >
> > The designers stated btw that tablets are not the focus, bad input
> > devices is.
> >
> 
> What do you mean? Bad input devices are the focus?  What about a mouse and a
> large screen because that is a problematic configuration with gnome3 due to
> having to move all the way from one side to the other.?

I did not mean what you said. I meant that a lot of touchpads on laptops
are very bad to use (inaccurate and so on). GNOME 3 was meant to make it
easier to work with them.

Suggest if you focus on doing things quickly to use the keyboard. You
can more quickly start applications and so on than before.
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Regards,
Olav