On 12/08/14 15:44, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >>> So that's my experience with Xfce and HiDPI displays; at least for >>> this hacker, it was orders of magnitude less painful than dealing with >>> GNOME. :-) >> >> I would appreciate if you went into a little detail on what pain you had >> with GNOME for comparison purposes. > > It's the usual frustrations, that have been aired a million times > before[1]. Struggling with the GNOME equivalent of the Windows Registry, > wanting to use a 2D workspace, struggling as random GNOME extensions > break when GNOME releases a new version, etc., etc., etc. > > [1] http://felipec.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/the-problem-with-gnome-3/ > > Basically, I can be effective and efficient with Xfce. I can't say > the same about GNOME, as a power user. Which is OK, since I'm clearly > not the target audience for the GNOME project. Oh, well....
I can't agree more, with you and the blog post. I will go further. Xfce does not break a paradigm, it uses less than half the RAM, which allows me to do more things simultaneously and doesn't do unexpected things. Xfce customizability is built in. Under GNOME I have to install a tweaker to make it remotely do what I expect. Over time, GNOME 3 increasingly consumes more RAM. The same happens with X.org. Xfce behavior is definitely not as bad. I've been told this has to do with heap fragmentation but I don't buy it. I don't have numbers but I would think HF to cause 20% of the increasingly-consumed RAM behavior. By default, GNOME 3 hides the notification area from view and only one application button can be seen at a time. One of the most common and important tasks, "application switching", is a two-step process now: 1) open the 'Activities' view to see what windows do I have open. 2) Look for it with the eyes and click. In the traditional desktop, the first step is eliminated. That's possibly desirable in a tablet where screen resources are invaluable, but not in a workstation where user-to-computer "bandwidth" must be maximized and screen are not touch-sensitive. That's why I see GNOME 3 as a tablet environment. I'd love to use a tablet with GNOME 3. But using it in a desktop just reduces the communication between me and my computer. What is Debian? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53eaae86.5070...@alvarezp.ods.org
