Re: My gripes with Gnome Shell

[Pascal Obry <pascal obry net>]

Le lundi 26 septembre 2016 à 12:38 -0700, Jeffrey Needle a écrit :
> Two things about Gnome that just make it unusable for me.  First, 

Unusable? And you list after some very minor points!!!

> the 
> top panel needs to be more customizable.  I want the FULL date, not
> just 
> the month and day.

You can add the day of week and the seconds. Is that what you are
looking for?

>   I want a working weather app.  

What do you mean by working? I'm using the Openweather extension. Works
just great.

> The other thing is 
> the difficulty in adding some apps to the favorites. If it's an app
> that 
> is launched, say, using a shell script, you have to manually create
> a 
> file to make it appear in the apps display. For new users, who I
> install 
> regularly, this is just too difficult. Why can't the developers make 
> some of these things work correctly? Mate and XFCE have working
> weather apps.  And XFCE lets you display the date and time in so many
> ways, as does Cinnamon.

So use Cinnamon if this is what you like. That's the good thing with
all the choice around... So I still don't get your point.

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