Hi! first of all I'd like to congratulate everyone involved in Gnome 3! I've been using it on Fedora 15 for a few weeks now and I must say I really like a lot the ideas. I still disagree with some of the points of view such as having the hidden power off option and removing the minimize/maximize buttons, but I do understand that extensions are available to change those behaviors so I will not discuss these.
My main problem with the current shell is that I've been a heavy keyboard user for a long time now. I started when I switched to Openbox, which gave me amazing configuration options. I set up keyboard shortcuts for pretty much everything.. for moving, resizing, tiling, and any other window managing activity as well as for opening and closing applications. Later I switched to Compiz, which also gave me pretty heavy configuration options although not as extensive as openbox. I like to set up my system to have a keyboard-only and a mouse-only way to accomplish anything (except for typing of course..) and that is where Gnome 3 is lacking in my experience. I understand the reasoning behind simplifying things for the regular user, but I do feel the power users were partially ignored in some of the decisions. I notice that under the keyboard shortcuts in the settings there's the + and - for adding or removing shortcuts but they don't seem to work. I would really like to see a way to create shortcuts for launching custom applications and for tiling the windows on the halves of the screen. Hope this can be achieved either by implementing the options in Gnome or by creating an extension (which unfortunately I don't have the ability to do). Either way, I do love the new Gnome and I hope to see it grow and mature! Thanks again. -- Diego Fernandez - 爱国 _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
