On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 09:40 -0500, Ryan Peters wrote: > On 05/17/2011 08:18 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 13:55 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > >> On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 10:48 -0700, Micah Carrick wrote: > > ... > >>> It gives the impression the the core team has not answered (which of > >>> course is not the case) or does not care about what *we* think (we > >>> being the existing user-base and "power users"). > >> Doesn't give me that impression at all. Decisions were discussed, and > >> made. > >>> The point I am making is that while this list has answered some of > >>> these same questions and complaints over and over and over--the > >>> unanswered posts and blogs seem to drown out the answers. > >> And they always always will. Nature of the beast. > >> This weekend I intend to spend some time writing a very positive BLOG > >> post about GNOME3. > > A bit late, but I finally got around to it - > > <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com/2011/05/fortnight-with-gnome3.html> > > My feedback after using GNOME3 full time for 14 days. > Because your blog won't let me directly comment for some reason (maybe > it's an add-on), I'm responding here:
Huh, I thought that was enabled. > I'm very glad that you gave GNOME 3 a chance! It's a well-known fact > around here that comments like "there's no taskbar", or "you need to > click a lot", or "there's no minimize/maximize buttons", or even the > ever-popular "If I wanted to use a smartphone interface, I'd use a > smartphone" show that the writer of those comments has given > little-to-no effort whatsoever to enjoy GNOME 3. Agree, those arguments are what I specifically hoped to counter. > About minimize/maximize, the reason minimize was removed was due to it ... >Also, the critics saying that GNOME Shell is "one size fits all" must Agree. For clarification I've added the following update to my post: <quote> [UPDATE: I should have included a link to sloshy's very helpful post "How To Tweak GNOME 3 To Your Needs". So I've now rectified that error. Please note that I don't actually tweak GNOME3 much or install the various GNOME Shell extensions which are available. I recommend you really give GNOME3 vanilla an honest try. His post "10 Things I Love About GNOME 3" is also an interesting read - and helps explain some of the GNOME3 ideology. I should also point out that there are at least two ways to maximize a window in vanilla GNOME3 so the removal of maximize button seems reasonable. Minimization in GNOME3, lacking a task bar, is awkward - so removal of the minimize button in order to discourage the behavior seems reasonable as well. As I said originally: I never minimize anyway.] </quote> > no desktop icons (that could be done better by a favorites list/recent > documents list/zeitgeist), and accessing minimized windows in GNOME Yes, I'm really looking forward to zeitgeist. _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
