Re: What do you think about this? Don't you think the way of gnome-shell is wrong?

[Денис Черемисов <denis cheremisov net>]

Omg, overlay appearance swiches the context, not the way overlay is called. This overlay flashy appearance disturbes me and many other people very much. The overlay for gnome-shell resembles me cube and wobbly-windows for compiz: it's exciting, it's inconvenient -- it can be done without such a massive redrawing.

Here is my list:

1) Expo effect is quite useless. Compiz has its expo called "scale". I've bound it on convenient key combination: Super+Arrow Up. But I'm still using Alt+Tab or taskbar, but not expo, because it turned to be not quite easy to find out windows I need.

2) Dynamic workspace configuration is a pure evil. I have 4 workspaces in 2x2 matrix. I have opened chromium-browser and emacs at #1, two terminals splited vertically in #2, mail client in #4, and #3 is used for little things. -- It's on my job, I've only 2 workspaces at home and rarely use #2. So, I always now what are the current workspace is and how to switch to one I need. Your approach can't provide such a simple way to treat them.

So, you see: I'm using GNU/Linux and gnome at my job, so I need the environment must be comfortable to work with. Metacity doesn't have all the things I need: grid, previews, so I switched to compiz, but speedup animation effects in two times, because the default is too slow. But I'm still use metacity at home, because I don't need grids and animation seems to be a pain in a little while.

First I've tried gnome-shell at home and it seemed to be convenient (because I usually use only browser and sometimes gnome-terminal, which I launch with shortcut). But at work It proved to be amateurish stuff without any hope. Guys, admit you wouldn't do animation speed settings, because it's not gnome-way? Today the animations are painfully slow. Gnome needs many improvements: gnome-panel is outdated (for example, places menu doesn't have unmount buttons, there is no spacer, etc), nautilus -- it's too slow and lack of features, etc. In my opinion, the gnome-shell is pointless.

2009/10/17 iain <iain openedhand com>

On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 00:17 +0100, Bob CFC wrote:
>  I can flick my mouse, type CAL+enter quicker
> and easier than three precise menu clicks the old way.

And for what its worth, the windows key does the same as clicking the
activities button, so you can do it without taking your hands off your
keyboard.

iain

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