Re: Latest version of Gnome shell is terrible



I suggest you download the gnome3 ISO from here�http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Medias/images/iso/�and give it a try. Also could you try to be good on words, using the words like 'terrible' is not helping anyone.

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Benjamin Burden <burdebc yahoo com> wrote:
Earlier today (03/19/11) I finally got gnome shell to build and I am immensely dissapointed.� I had used it previously when I installed it from the Ubuntu Software Center and fell in love with it.� I have yet figured out how to get to file manager in the new version short of placing a folder on the desktop and opening that, and when I tried to open a new terminal window I clicked on terminal in the applications menu and it opened the original window instead of a new one.� Also much of the system menu is no longer displayed like there used to be in the old version of gnome shell.� Also I hate the fact that you have to choose whether to show your windows or applications.� Since the favorites are the only things shown in window mode of the activities menu the favorites icons are needlessly large and ugly.� To add to it all, the default window dressings are quite unattractive and are missing the maximise, minimise, and menu buttons.� It seems as if the newest version of gnome shell is meant for netbooks like unity, some of us still have proper desktops and laptops, so we still need a window manager designed for a screen larger than 10.1 inches.� I could go on for quite some time about things I don't like about what I am currently seeing from gnome 3, but all I really need to say is bring the old version of gnome 3 back (the one currently on Ubuntu Software Center).� Thanks.


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