-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> To: Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: GNOME3 Ugh! What specifically didn't work. Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:48:26 +0100
On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 10:59 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:43:27 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > (...) > > > There's no way to minimize a window. > > Yes, you can minimize a window by: > > - Pressing the minimize button located at the right corner of the window > - Right-click on the window title and pres "Minimize" > > > I can slide my browser off to the side when I don't want to look at it, > > but it insists in covering half my screen anyway. > > That's the default, yes. It's a feature documented here: > > https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet > > "By dragging windows to the left and right edges of the screen you can > tile them side by side." > > > There's no task bar. > > There is, well, there are two, the new Dash and Activities. > > > No convenient place I can click to instantly switch to another window. > > Activities? > > > How am I supposed to be efficient with this thing? > > There is still the fallback mode. > > Greetings, Everything Camaleón wrote is true, e.g. for the default Windows just the buttons are missing, the right-click still is ok, e.g. using "Activities" is the way to break every sane workflow for serious usage, but OTOH it's a game for all those people who don't use the computer as a tool, but as a toy. I'm using fallback mode and I'm still able to restore GNOME 2 ;). The most serious issue is, that some professional FLOSS apps were written for GNOME 2, with GNOME 3 we fall back to an amateur OS regarding to some apps. - Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1321193454.4087.30.camel@debian
