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So in summary it's "GNOME devs, you're never allowed to change anything. Throw the shell out, pack it up and go home"? Am I understanding correctly? > To: gnome-shell-list gnome org > From: jb 1234abcd gmail com > Subject: Re: GNOME 3 from Fedora user's perpective - request for changes > Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 14:24:50 +0000 > > G. Michael Carter <mikey@...> writes: > > > ... > > My first look at Gnome-Shell was I thought it was a piece of crap. Good for > those who have never used a computer or have a touch screen but utterly useless > to a tech like me who spends most of his time in several terminal windows. > (The sometimes 5-10 second delay to bring up the overview page, after the > systems been running for a few hours, didn't help... ) > > > > I described the switching between active windows and finding hidden menus > underneath them as an act of a circus clown juggling the balls :-) > > > But then I realized Gnome 3.0 is more like Gnome-Shell 1.0. All the cool > > 3rd party stuff we've been using for Gnome 2.x just hasn't caught up yet. I > > dare say soon after (or maybe before) F15 release we're going to see a pile > > of extensions. > > I hope that the GNOME 3 devs do something about the menu system, without > waiting for users to come to their own rescue by writing extensions. > > > With my user community I've got a split from the non-techical users. My > > mother told me, to tell you guys to stop mucking with what works and change it > > back. > > Your mother deserves a lot of respect. She knows, probably intuitively, that > age is to be respected, even if it applies to a somewhat "oldie" GNOME 2. > > > Where my wife says she loves it. She finds it much better than the clunky > > gnome 2.x > > Well, she is your wife. You have to repect her too, otherwise ... :-) > > > With this in mind it might be helpful to be able to select the fallback > > screen as a default for those who just aren't ready to take the plunge. > > We the "techies" will probably survive somehow, but we are concerned about > the "unwashed" non technical broad users base for whom a computer is only > a tool, whose usefulness is measured by "do not get in my way, babe !". > > JB > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > gnome-shell-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list |