Re: Gnome support? we don´t need no stinking support!

[Andrew Wood <a j w me com>]

Personally though I think Gnome 3 is going to be much easier for Windows 
converts to grasp, I think they had an tendency to find all the applets 
and the workspace switcher in 2, too confusing.

I also think that the new way of switching between windows is far better 
if you have lots of windows open - in which case the switcher bar in 
Gnome 2 just became a hideous mess of far too many tiny buttons, which 
you couldnt distinguish between without hovering your mouse over each 
one and reading the tooltip to see which one was for what window.

If youve only got a handful of windows open you can just move one to the 
side and click the other without having to goto 'Activities', and even 
when you do need to, a single press of the Windows key saves you having 
to move the mouse to it.

Maybe its just my zen minimalist ideal but Im glad the applets have gone 
-- too much 'junk' which had the potential to confuse newbies. Like 
Dashboard in Mac OS X - out of all the Mac users I know, and I know a 
lot, no one uses it, and many are confused by its presence.

I guess it depends what you want - a power Unix user style workstation 
or something which has the potential to attract average Windows 
consumers who still throw a fit if you put a PC in front of them which 
isnt running something made by Microsoft.

Personally Im happy to see Gnome going after the latter, others will 
have different ideals of course, but mine is a world where Linux is a 
true desktop contender for the average Joe.