On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 21:50 +0200, Sebastian Spaeth wrote: > Hi there, I just wanted to share my first impressions of using gnome > shell with you. Please try to ignore the ranty tone of the mail, it was > a rather frustrating day :-). But I guess there are some valid (probably > mostly known) issues that can improve the GNOME experience.... > > Otherwise feel free to ignore this, I just had to write it off my chest. > Sebastian > > GNOME3 has been released, Ubuntu has a repository for it, so I dutifully > upgraded to the latest version. To be honest, I was curious at getting > to see the big changes that have led to massive amounts of both praise > and rants. I have to say, that I am kind of like it, but am still pretty > disappointed. > > I installed gnome3-session, which led to a desktop that looked > approximately like Windows 3.1 in its appeal. Only after I found out > that gnome-standard-themes are also required, but apparently not pulled > in by default, did things start to actually make sense and look pretty :) > One Ubuntu peculiarity is that gnome3-session apparently pulls in gnome > 2.32, but gnome-session pull 3.0, don't ask me why. At least they block > each other. > Hmm. I don't think > > On the issue of settings. Whenever I click on a mail address, it invokes > the evolution first time wizard now. Heck, I don't use evolution, I > write my mails either in Thunderbird or in emacs thanks. There used to > be a setting called "preferred applications". That one seems gone > now. Not even the gnome-tweaks tool has it. Does anyone know where I can > set things so that it sends mail *not* using evolution? > dconf-editor /org/gnome/desktop/applications/office/calendar? I'm *sure* the option to change was presented in 2.91.x or 2.90.x although with much smaller way then before (no option 'open in new tab' for browser, no option to enter command by hand). Also - where's browser settings? > Previously I had my 5 most needed apps in the panel which I could start immediately. Now I have to go to the hot-corner to make the panel appear, find the app and go there to start it. It's more moving and more waiting. I can live with that but it's not much of an improvement for me. The work spaces display is quite nice, I liked that. Also, the windows placement, offering easily full screen and split-screen window sizes make sense, and I am going to use them a lot. > Search for application, right click on it and click 'add to favourites'. > One thing that is absolutely horrible, is that I am an avid emacs user. Emacs most important area is the "minibuffer", the lowest line in the window. However, that happens to be exactly the space where "notifications" are now shown. Notifications are not translucent enough to actually see what happens beneath them (say, if I want to type the path of a filename I want to open). They also don't go away by themselves without me clicking on them, which is very inconvenient when I am just typing in emacs. That is problem for any application that uses bottom space. Regards
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