Re: Latest version of Gnome shell is terrible

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 1:01 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,

Ubuntu has a patch that modifies the file manager desktop file that
says "Don't Don't Display This Application No Matter What", so we
don't display it. In a proper gnome3 environment, it will be on the
left, along with Firefox and OpenOffice.

It's suboptimal, I know, and right now I just like to get a file
manager by typing "Home" into search.

> 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.

This has been the case for much longer than the redesign: for as long
as I can remember, you always had to right-click and choose "New
Window".

> Also much of the system menu is no longer
> displayed like there used to be in the old version of gnome shell.

Is there anything you miss?

> 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.

The favorites are shown in all portions of the overview, on the left
in the area called the "dash".

And yeah, I'm not the best person to be talking here, because I always
use search to do what I want.

> To add to it all, the default window dressings are quite unattractive and
> are missing the maximise, minimise, and menu buttons.

They don't look as good as they should without the appropriate GTK+
theme as well. See how they really should look from the screenshots at
http://gnome3.org/ . Again, I use Ubuntu, and I can't tell you how to
change it, I just live with the uglyness.

> 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 use gnome-shell on my desktop with a 24" screen from DELL, and I
know lots of other people use it on their desktops.

> 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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