Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (71 mails)

[Steven Sroka <sroka.steven@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9 April 2011 02:24, Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I know that gnome 3 is yet to be available on an official repository for
> openSUSE but I had at least considered that the URL provided by Andi
> Sugandi,
> http://blog.crozat.net/2011/03/gnome3-live-image-version-030-released.html?showComment=1301462195094#c2058626114917652993
>  in his post a couple of days ago, contained the working version of Gnome 3
> for openSUSE.
>
> I now just hope that I had jumped-in prematurely and that what will become
> available thru the official site, suggested to be GNOME:STABLE:3.0 , will be
> what Gnome 3 should be, at least initially, on openSUSE.
>
> The way it is now (as installed from the above site given in the crozat
> blog) requires TWO (2x) mouse clicks to do anything![**] - RIGHT click on
> the Header 'menu' to get a drop down menu and then LEFT click to CLOSE an
> application!
>
> There are no 'minimize, maximize, close' buttons andywhere so that If I am
> reading a message in Thunderbird, instead of simply left clicking on the
> 'close' buttton I have to right-click on the header menu (I don't know what
> the official name is!) and then left click to close the message so as to get
> back to the list of messages to read!

It's a new paradigm to window management. It allows faster switching
of windows. Hovering over Activities and then click on the window you
want to switch too is a good change for me. It's just something to get
used to since I don't see the Gnome devs dropping two years worth of
work and going back to Gnome panels.

> There are no separate workspaces/desktops: everything is always on the one
> workspace - even though I am allowed to create my (usual 6 individual
> workspaces).
>
> (OK, there is this "bug" in compiz I learnt about in another thread - but
> the bug is supposed to be for gnome 2.3x....but I don't know.)
>
> Wot a lot of stupidity! :-(
>
> *Please* don't tell me that this is what users of Windows 7 and the MAC
> operating systems have to do all the time when using their systems!
>
> [**] Not quite correct: a single click on (?)most items in the COMPUTER box
> (bottom, left - equivalent to Windows START) will at least open the
> selection to allow for something to be done.
>
>
> Surely this is NOT what normal users want done to their operating systems?
> :-(
>
> BC
>
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