I've just installed Gnome Shell as part of a F15 build, it's the first time I've played with it and have pretty much ignored the build up as I prefer to judge these things myself.
While I'm not totally comfortable yet with the changes I'm willing to use it for a couple of weeks before making decisions as to whether I'll stick with it or not. I've been using F14 with a Compiz desktop for 2-3 years now. I've read assorted arguments in assorted threads regarding human multitasking capabilities and frankly don't want to get into those arguments. What I don't understand however is the removal of critical/semi critical indicators from the system without any replacement extensions being available and if I've read some mailing list threads correctly no intention to provide replacements. Specifically the removal of the hardware monitoring and CPU, Network etc.... monitoring applets I just do not understand the reasoning behind. There is a quantum difference between multi tasking and process/activity monitoring. I've many times been working on one of my machines when a panel indicator has drawn my attention to something that needed further investigation, sometimes without merit, on a couple of occasions it's possibly saved machines. There's plenty of space on the top bar to allow them, so what's the logic? Also is there a way to change to format of the date/time on the top bar? I prefer to use a 12 hour clock with an am/pm suffix and no leading zeros. Thanks and I will state I've been impressed with the stability, more eye candy would be nice though. _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
