Re: My gripes with Gnome Shell

[Olaf Leidinger <oleid mescharet de>]

Hej,

> I install Linux on a lot of computers.  My users all use an an app that 
> needs to start from a shell script, and after I leave, they have other 
> apps that likewise start in that way.  Minor?  Not to them.

Why would you start an shell script app via GUI?

Anyway, I'd suggest to adapt your shell scripts to place a simple XDG
file into the user's home. Or to globally create XDG files for those
apps and maintain them in a custom package. That's what I used to do
for proprietary stuff like Matlab or Mathematica. That way, they are
usable from any desktop.

Creating an XDG file is basically what "create launcher" used to do on
GNOME 2.x. 

> Nope.  The year --- why in the world can't we have the year display?  
> There are codes you can insert to display the date as you prefer.  Why 
> does Gnome not let us just enter those codes?
>
> In the old days, you were able to use a configuration tool to enter 
> those codes.  Not any more.  Why?

I'm not going to ask why on earth you need the year displayed - since I
guess it's just an example. So let's come directly to the date codes.

Short answer: because nobody coded it.

Longer answer: It seems as nobody felt that showing the year was
needed. I'd assume the average user is scared off by entering date
codes / format strings. Furthermore, it's more complex. I'd be
astonished, however, it a patch to manually set a format string via
dconf would be rejected. 


> > >    I want a working weather app.  
> > What do you mean by working? I'm using the Openweather extension. Works
> > just great.  
>
> Mine says "Invalid Extension."

Probably not correctly installed. The weather extension works great
here on Debian testing. What distribution and GNOME version are you
using?


> I want Gnome to do this stuff.  I grew up on the old Gnome classic 
> desktop, and I really wish I could continue.  Cinnamon is okay, but it 
> just doesn't feel comfortable to me.
>
> Oh well.  Back to XFCE.  All is simple there.

What do you expect? You must realise, that you affront the people on
this list that way. Makes you look like a douche bag - and I guess this
is not what you intended. On top, why do you think that people care
what desktop you are using? 


> Thanks for the response.

You're welcome!

Best regards,

Olaf