Two things about Gnome that just make it unusable for me. First, the
top panel needs to be more customizable. I want the FULL date, not just
the month and day. I want a working weather app. The other thing is
the difficulty in adding some apps to the favorites. If it's an app that
is launched, say, using a shell script, you have to manually create a
file to make it appear in the apps display. For new users, who I install
regularly, this is just too difficult. Why can't the developers make
some of these things work correctly? Mate and XFCE have working weather
apps. And XFCE lets you display the date and time in so many ways, as
does Cinnamon.
On 09/25/2016 06:54 PM, Luke Jones wrote:
The GNOME project has done some incredible work, especially in regards
to software collections. Each bit of software has a clear purpose, and
performs this exceedingly well. Where GNOME falls down, scraping it's
knees on the pavement in it's rush to perfection however, is in the
area most important - the window manager and desktop interaction.
Have you got a laptop touchpad handy? Good, try this; scroll 5 pages
of apps in the GNOME app drawer with the touchpad scroll function.
It's a twitch game, move your fingers just a fraction to far and
instead of page 2, you're on page 9000.
I see three solutions to this particular problem.
1: create an option for line based scrolling
2: make the touchpad scroll distance (how far you move your fingers) a
division of how many pages there are.
3: an option to use scrollbar based app drawer, same as what the
folders use.
I don't pretend to know what would be required for option 2, I'm still
very much a newbie when it comes to delving in to GNOME sources, but
option 1 seems much more feasible, and will probably work much better
in the long run, or perhaps option 3 is less work?
While we're on the app drawer subject, given that it is a similar
concept to many Android app screens, you'd think an easy way to create
groups of apps would be logical right? The process to do so at this
time is rather convoluted, requiring some tedious commandline-fu. A
simple right-click menu with `add to group` as a command would
suffice, preferably a context sensitive one so that if you're adding
to a non-existant group then it will create it.
And the last niggle about the app drawer? Configurable
rows/colums/icon size, this would be a massive boon to all users,
along with the suggestions above.
Tiling! Everyone's favourite subject. No, no, it doesn't need to be
complex, it only needs to be functional. Windows beat GNOME to a
critical feature; resizable split proportion. As in, drag the middle
of two split windows left or right to resize the split. We need this,
desperately.
What's a use case scenario? How about having a note taking application
open alongside a browser window, right away you're going to have
issues as the default 50/50 split plays havoc with most webpages, the
ideal seems to be 40/60, slightly larger for the browser. If dynamic
resizing isn't possible then presets might be a poor but adequate
solution.
I'm a computer science student, and I'm slowly getting acquainted with
the GNOME codebase. Like most large projects, reading the code the
first time is overwhelming and requires a hefty time investment, one I
don't have much of to give.
Any input in to what I've talked about above would be great,
especially regarding the app drawer scrolling.
Cheers,
Luke.
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