Re: Gnome 3

[Ka Hay <gattanegra data bg>]

Hello,

I know that I can not kick too much as Linux and Gnome are all free...
but..

I really really really do not like Gnome 3.
I had to change my distro  to get Gnome2 back.
I am sorry, that's it.

Cheers

Ka.

On 03/30/2012 03:29 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 09:41 -0400, Andrew Nielsen wrote:
> > If gnome 3 is so great, then why are so many people having such
> > problems with it.....
> If you have lots of users, you will have users who have problems or
> don't like something.  That is just built-in.
>
> > for one, you can't make any changes to panels (i.e.
> > panel height, opacity, adding apps to panels, etc.) can't change fonts
> > or font sizes.
> Is this really true?  I don't think so.  There are lots of things I can
> adjust with GNOME Tweak Tool.  And most of that is driven by themes;  so
> changing your theme lets you change lots of things.  In the a11y menu I
> can adjust for high contrast, large font size, etc...
>
> > There are certain programs that don't work with gnome 3,
> > but you guys won't know that because you don't necessarily check to find
> > out what works with it and what doesn't...for instance, xiphos bible
> > software doesn't work with gnome 3...it only works up to kernel 3.0.0-1,
> If it is a "kernel" issue it isn't a GNOME problem.  An app being broken
> by a kernel version is certainly odd, and probably a problem with the
> application.   And I've run Xiphos under GNOME3 on openSUSE 11.4 - it
> worked then at least.
>
> > after that, nothing, it'll start briefly, then die.
> If you run it from gnome-terminal do you see an error message /
> back-trace when it fails.
>
> > so do us all a favor, do a little more
> > research in what works with new kernels before assuming that they'll be
> > ok with everyone...
> That isn't a GNOME problem.
>
> > .because what I'm seeing in my local forum is nothing
> > short of horrible, people (users) having all kinds of problems, but no
> > one to take responsibility or willingness to fix it......cheers
> The Internet has a *powerful* negative bias;  so be careful how much you
> read into it.   Happy people don't post,  unhappy people do (because
> they have a motivation to do so).   Just as people don't BLOG as much
> about stuff that just-works, but about problems them have or fix.  If
> you perceive the world solely through the Internet you doom yourself to
> pessimism and negativity.
>
> There are many many happy GNOME3 users.  They are just busy using their
> apps in GNOME3 and not posting about how happy they are.
>
> <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com/2011/05/fortnight-with-gnome3.html>
> <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com/2011/11/gnome-tweak-tool.html>
> <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com/2011/11/gaj-zeitgeist-opensuse-121.html>
>
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