> Um. I'm not sure how you're getting there from here. How does Android - > 2.3 or 3.0 - resemble GNOME 3? The major feature of GNOME 3 is the > Overview; Android does not have anything like this. It has an app > browser, but this has no concept of switching between windows; Android > isn't a window-based interface. It has no windows at all, which is > another obvious difference.
Android has not windows? I'm sure it has windows; it has a slightly different idea of windows: you cannot resize them, you have nowhere to drag them, you cannot maximize-minimize. It is "oriented" (don't know if it's the correct word) to small devices, such as smartphone and tablets. It's like the Iphone interface: you don't have a "start" menu, you don't have a "menu" with accessories,applications,settings; you have instead many screens that you could slide left-right in which you can see lots of icons; each icon belongs to a different application, so at the end you'll have a mess (newspaper apps mixed with medical apps, calculator hide between settigns and internet browser, etc.). It's like the iphone, from which all new gui derive (IMHO) :); and bo th iphone and samsung galaxy are phones. And the gnome Overview (for me) resembles a phone/tablet interface. You have to press super, click on applications, and wait 2 seconds to see a group of icons (many are similar each other) in which it is really difficult (for me, only for me) to grasp what you need. With a traditional menu, you just have to click on gnome-foot, or windows start, or xfce menu, what ever you want, wait 0.001 s and you'll have a fully organized menu. I'm not saying that gnome3 is not beautiful; i like it, it is aesthetically very pleasing. I'm saying that i lose much more time using gnome3 than gnome2: if i have to switch between apps, with gnome2 i can simply click on the beauty,small,clear icon on the taskbar; with gnome3, i must: 1. press super 2. struggle with my eyes to find the window i need 3. click on it. This process is (for me) made more difficult by animations. Also, if i want a task bar, why should i rely on a third party extension which is more prone to crash than an integrated component? And if i would add maximize,minimize why should i use gconf-editor? And if i didn't want animations, why should i switch to "fallback" mode? Couldn't it be "traditional" mode? why could i choose, if i wanted, to disable compiz and i can't disable animations? Animations are not good for everyone; after a while, i feel "dizzy". The big changes made with GNOME3 could make life easier for someone, and much more difficult for others. This is my opinion :) daniele _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
