On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:10:54 +0100 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> -------- 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 > > > The extensions, I guess everyone thinks I'm winging about, allow you to have the static drop down menus, and it allows the windows pane on the panel at the bottom just like gnome-shell 2. -- Best wishes / 73 Richard Bown e-mail: rich...@g8jvm.com or richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk nil carborundum a illegitemis ################################################################################## Ham Call G8JVM . OS Debian Wheezy amd64 on a Dual core AMD Athlon 5200, 4 GB RAM Maidenhead QRA: IO82SP38, LAT. 52 39.720' N LONG. 2 28.171 W ( degs mins ) QRV HF + VHF Microwave 23 cms:140W,13 cms:100W,6 cms:10W & 3 cms:5W ################################################################################## -- 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/20111113152426.39aee9b5@debian
