On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 11:30 -0700, Bob Frazier wrote: > On 08/07/12 05:10, Diego Fernandez so wittily quipped: > > Hmm... Most of this has been covered countless times. I read your > > page, and to tell you the truth I didn't find much useful information. > it's not HOW MUCH information, but rather "putting it all in one place". > I spent too much FRUSTRATING time when I installed Ubuntu 11.10 for a > particular customer project, trying to figure out HOW TO USE SOMETHING > that should have been intuitively obvious (but was not). Ubuntu doesn't use GNOME3, at least not on anything like a default install. > problems). By putting the CRITICAL information in ONE PLACE, people > like me SHOULD be able to resolve this fast. Then all someone has to do is make that document. > hardware support from the new version of XX" (or similar). Linus > Torvalds talked about updating his RH version to correct issues with X11 > in one of the links on my site, and his FRUSTRATION with the fact that > the update included gnome 3. Ah, playing "the Linus card". This will soon become a legendary part of heated threads. Personally I don't much care about Linus' opinions on the desktop; most of the time I think he is simply wrong. I respect him on issues concerning the kernel. > > You could look at the multiple extensions at extensions.gnome.org, you > > can get a panel and all sorts of other goodies from there. Getting > > icons on desktop is easy, install gnome-tweak-tool. > All of that TAKES PERSONAL TIME on the part of EVERYONE ELSE. Uh, yes. > Why can't these things be included as STANDARD FEATURES? Why? Because not everything can be a standard feature - these standard features would collide. And, I don't have to install anything to get these features, so they are supported out-of-the-box. Desktop icons (nautilus on the desktop) is just a gsetting. > If enough people > WANT them, it's only BETTER if these features were on a standard > settings dialog box. Maybe a single checkbox under system settings that > says "classic look", or a theme, or similar. But distributions (a) may offer this if they choose and (b) GNOME Fallback *is* a presented greeter option on some distributions [I can pick fallback on openSUSE, depending on how GDM is configured]. > That's all it would take. > End of frustration. Simple, right? No more hours of searching to > figure out what you MIGHT need to fix these problems. Or, BETTER STILL, > an FAQ DOCUMENTATION PAGE with a link that has the same stuff my page > has, plus all of YOUR experiences with the extensions and so on, as "hey > this is how you do it'. That would make MORE sense, don't you think? > Documentation, after all, is a GOOD thing. I haven't found any that > tells me everything I need, without going to zillions of dead-end google > search results to find "that one", and only a piece of what I need at that. If you ask a specific question perhaps someone here can help; less anger/rant, just ask a question. In general I always tell people: google is not your friend, it is just an enormous time sink. Go to an appropriate forum and ask a specific question.
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