Re: Disliking gnome 3

[Pasha R <pashar ml gmail com>]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam whitemice org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 18:16 +0300, Pasha R wrote:
>> My problem is that shell is simply inconvenient to use and insulting
>> attitude of developers
>
> I don't feel insulted at all.
Good for you. I find an attitude commonly expressed on this and some
other lists "we know better what you should want" insulting.

>
>> that think that they know better what I should
>> or shouldn't want to do with my computer.
>
> This is *always* true;  they have a vision and a goal.  Good for them.

It would be good for them if they did it for themselves. But they
supposed to do it for other users, too, and failing to acknowledge
that there are many different types of users with different needs and
different personal preferences is one of the reasons people running
away from G3.

>
>
>> small part of the functionality I could setup with few mouse clicks
>> with G2.
>
> Such as?
Such as applets, custom shortcuts on panel, screensaver etc.

>
>> The almost mindless action of launching new application now
>> became a full-scale "activity", and going there actually distracts me
>> from my work.
>
> Really?  <Meta>,g,e,<enter> ... and there is gedit. I have no idea how
> that is distracting.
>

Well, I prefer to do these thing with mouse, and not with keyboard.
Also, overview moves me to totally different view, which is
distracting.

>> The list can go on and on, and in general, I think Linus
>> summed it all up very well.
>
> Ow, playing the "Linus card".
It has nothing to do with "Linus card". If you really want, you can
look in this list and fedora list archives what I said about G3 when
F15 came out. It was way before Linus expressed his opinion. But since
his view of subject is mostly similar to mine and well written I save
my time and few electrons and refer to his opinion instead of
repeating it in different words.