The good, the bad, the insane

[Martin Häsler <martin haesler googlemail com>]

Hi ,

After having followed this list for quite some time, I now feel 
compelled  to weigh in.

The good:

Overall Gnome-shell is absolutely fantastic. It is the most visually 
pleasing desktop I have ever seen, I love
the general workflow, love the workspace management.
Gnome-shell, especially considering it 3.0 nature, is ridiculously 
stable, and with the gallium driver feels very snappy.
A job very well done, Congratulations !!

The bad:

I dearly miss the Gnome2 Killer-app: netspeed-applet. I am confident, 
that someone will write an extension showing netspeed
in the Top-Bar, but for now I really miss it. (I am running a conky 
script now, but it's just not the same.

Am I the only one to think, that the Close button should be on the left 
side ? Because for someone using only mouse
or touchpad, in order to close your window you have to go all the way to 
the top right corner and in order to launch your next app
across the whole screen to the left. (Before someone says, hey window 
buttons have always been on the right side, true, but
also there have also always been Min and Max buttons. And yes, I know 
you can change that with gconf-editor, I just think it
should be default.


The insane:

Suspend/Shutdown:

I think this is the first design decision ever made in any desktop which 
made me angry.
Leaving aside, that suspend - resume doesn't work with many laptops and 
especially desktop PC's,
I simply cannot understand the thought process behind this decision. 
There was no need to change the old behaviour,
and to say making Suspend default, because it would save energy, is so 
blatantly wrong, I'm at a loss for words.
That a machine uses less energy when turned off should be obvious.
Please go back to the old behaviour and make a lot of users happy. 
(especially us treehugging Germans :) )