Re: The good, the bad, the insane

[Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk redhat com>]

On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 12:05 +0100, Martin Häsler wrote:
> Am I the only one to think, that the Close button should be on the left 
> side?

Wrong. Close button should be on the side user prefers it.
IOW: it should be configurable.

> 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. 

The thought process here is simple - "we know better what is good than
freaking users". It appears to be a prevalent trend in Gnome shell
design decisions.

Well, this particular freaking user had enough of it.
I am unsubscribing and deinstalling gnome shell.

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vda