RE: Gnome 3 usability - one user's comments

[Richard Evans <richard evans datanomic com>]

Me too, agree completely.  Other mails seem to indicate that the aim is to attract Windows users, but surely they will have problems also?  Where is the Start menu, for example?  Where is the task bar?

I was planning to upgrade from Fedora 12 to 15 but certainly won't bother now.

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: gnome-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:gnome-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Brian J. Murrell
Sent: 15 June 2011 11:52
To: gnome-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Gnome 3 usability - one user's comments

On 11-06-15 05:55 AM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> Been using Linux for years.  Started using Gnome 3 when Fedora 15 was 
> released.  I've concluded that I'm NOT in the audience for which the 
> Gnome 3 concepts were targeted. [In contrast, Gnome 2 served me well.]

I have to agree on pretty much, if not all of the points made here.

Gnome seems to be taking the road of dumbing down and targeting "single tasking" users, leaving multitasking power users with having to move and click the mouse way too much.

I am sure many "power users" will argue that power users should not have been using gnome in the first place, but it served me well as a nice compromise between the minimalist-no-desktop-paradigm-at-all-and-start-everything-from-a-command-line
and having decent integration between the user and the hardware so that I didn't have to go to a command line for every interaction I had with my computer.

b.