Re: Gnome 3 usability - one user's comments

[Sergio de Almeida Lenzi <lenzi sergio gmail com>]

> So yes it is some work, but innovating in free software and on the 
> desktop is as well. While we (free software developers) tend to be 
> labeled as copycats for once there is a project that dares to try new 
> ways of doing things. I think it is very good for free software (my 
> personal opinion) and the GNOME project.
>
> Now we need users feedback to fine tune all those little remaining glitches.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Fred
Thank you for your kindly answer... 
In my case (the 200 users), I shut down the Linux server and 
setup a FreeBSD 8.2 with ZFS and gnome 2.32 that make all the users happy...
by the way, they liked the gdm 2.28 too that have the nice "gdmsetup"  utility to change colors, backgrounds....
and works with the console-kit...

Now my problem is with the notebook users only (about 40-50) that runs on archlinux, 
it is becoming "old" and I cannot upgrade them... 
I ask to archlinux list, but they too does not understand that the users cannot live without
the icons in the background, the panel, the switch applet, and the various applets that
exists in the "old panel" ... 

The users came all from windows, and windows have the panel, the background icons, the drop down/up menus...
and so on..  For us (me) windows gui is bad, is madness, is ugly, those applets are foolish things,
and some of them love the "fish"  or the "eye" applet,  but it is what they (end users want)... 
imagine that some of them have about 30 to 50 icons in the background..  a kind of thing they 
cannot live without..

Gnome3 is a major advance, I know, it is faster, reliable, can do many more things, but what is missing
is the interface end users used to work with, that includes: desktop icons, panel, and applets. if gnome3 
provides this 3 things, than problem is solved... 

by the way, I use archlinux in the notebooks because the hibernate, the camera, the network manager, the automount of volumes... and so on.

Now I am thinking in installing FreeBSD 8.3 or 9.0 in their notebook, at least in 2 HP and 2 samsung it is working. 

I have others notebooks (acer 3050, 5050) running NetBSD, that is lightning fast..

It is really a pity, archlinux worked very well for more than 2 years now... 

Sergio