On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Atri Bhattacharya
Hi! I hope this is taken in the right spirit, but I wanted to list a few of my pet peeves with the GNOME desktop in openSUSE. I want to do this so that I can help get these fixed [by tracking in upstream bugs, openSUSE bugs or trying to see if I can fix them so on], hopefully by the next release. I think it would be a good thing to list the minor problems GNOME users face generally or in openSUSE alone, and I will list them somewhere in the Wiki [probably just in my user page first], so that we can start looking into these issues very early for the next version of openSUSE.
Let us just keep this list to minor usability issues, so that something like "YaST-GTK vs YaST-QT [Redux]" is probably not very contextual.
My pet peeves:-
1. openSUSE: Notification/tooltip theme in openSUSE -- openSUSE 11.3 comes out in a couple of days, but it still uses the same notification/tooltip theme used in the earlier versions. Fedora 13 and Ubuntu 10.04 on the other hand have moved to a much more elegant tooltip/notification theme [see http://static.arstechnica.com/assets/2010/03/ubuntu_darktheme-thumb-640xauto... ] which does add some beauty to the desktop.
I actually prefer opaque tooltips. Sometimes the text is unreadable in transparent backgrounds.
2. Upstream: Icon scrambling in the desktop -- Too often something like this happens: insert USB disk, safely remove USB disk, create a document "X" in the desktop (around the same location where the USB disk icon was), and re-insert USB disk. The USB-disk icon and the X icon appear on top of each other, making it impossible to click on one without dragging the icon of the other to some other place in the desktop. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613111
3. openSUSE: The menu thing (bug 595912), but that looks fixed in Factory http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2010-06/msg00013.html
4. openSUSE: CD drive getting locked in by the GNOME desktop https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=418944 -- Happens only in GNOME, and not on KDE. Also does not happen in Fedora/Ubuntu.
+1 But I have never tried Ubuntu. So dont know if it is a oS only issue.
Please let me know your pet peeves about the GNOME desktop in this thread.
My pet peeves: 1) Inability to connect to wireless/VPN without using mouse (networkmanager is not so a11y friendly imo) 2) Refresh the wireless network list, without having to manually switch off the wireless button 3) I want to just see what is the time now in Nuremeberg and want to close the calendar applet. A simple keyboard shortcut to toggle between open/close of the calendar. 4) Calendar applet slowing things and waiting for eds interactions (this should be configurable imo) 5) Ability to Select a different boot option while rebooting (Boot to windows, different kernel etc.) (more of an enhancement request) 6) Less wallpapers . "Get more wallpapers from Internet" menu does not give a easy workflow . (same problem with "get more themes") 7) User-unfriendly screensaver configuration dialog. One more annoying issue is in Firefox (technically not GNOME issue), The invalid security certificate accept workflow. This is a perfect example of "how not to design a workflow" imo. With Chrome, it is just one button-click "Proceed Anyway" (or something like that). Whereas, in FF, we need to "Get Certificate", See some random animations, Accept etc. I suggest my family/friends to use Chrome just because of this one issue. Most of the above issues are not oS specific. They are applicable in upstream also. So, they are GNOME pet-peeves to be precise. -- Sankar P http://psankar.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org