Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1188 mails)

[Roger Luedecke <roger.luedecke@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 00:41 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: 
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> On Friday, 2012-01-13 at 13:32 -0800, Roger Luedecke wrote:
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> > Honestly, besides that I'm very much not fond of Gnome Shell there are
> > other concerns. For example, the insistence of needing 3D acceleration
> > will be bad for business desktop users who haven't needed such a thing,
> > and thus require massive upgrades to make Gnome work properly.
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> Indeed.
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> > Plus,
> > lets face it... even Grandma can use Gnome 2. The new paradigm isn't an
> > improvement in usability as anticipated. This concerns me further with
> > Enterprise users... demo this shit, and see how quickly Windows gets the
> > upper hand in Enterprise environments.
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> Unless people go to xfce or similar.
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> > As far as that goes, if we can
> > accept the issues of hardware acceleration then I would say Cinnamon
> > essentially has the right idea.
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> I like it. I hope to see it here.
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> > Reinventing the wheel keeps things from
> > rolling. I also take issue with abandoning Compiz which is likely the
> > best compositing thingamajig on the market. Would it be that hard to
> > port the old style panels and such to GTK3?
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> I did not like compiz either.
I like compiz simply because it works very well, and smoothly... whereas
KWin chokes painfully on operations that compiz make look like childs
play. 
> By the way:
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> Linus Torvalds dubs GNOME 3 'unholy mess'
> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/05/linus_slams_gnome_three/>
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> “Linux daddy Linus Torvalds has dropped GNOME 3 in favor of the Xfce 
> graphical desktop interface, dubbing GNOME 3 an "unholy mess".”
I personally worry a bit extra when Linus says something sucks. I
mean... we wouldn't be here were it not for him.

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