-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2012-01-13 at 13:32 -0800, Roger Luedecke wrote:
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.
Indeed.
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.
Unless people go to xfce or similar.
As far as that goes, if we can accept the issues of hardware acceleration then I would say Cinnamon essentially has the right idea.
I like it. I hope to see it here.
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?
I did not like compiz either. By the way: Linus Torvalds dubs GNOME 3 'unholy mess' <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/05/linus_slams_gnome_three/> “Linux daddy Linus Torvalds has dropped GNOME 3 in favor of the Xfce graphical desktop interface, dubbing GNOME 3 an "unholy mess".” - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk8SEpsACgkQtTMYHG2NR9V6sgCgkSRt9C4+PTnBQaUMAKF+rBgJ vt8AmQEYJ0PrYgv17f4btv6MdZhHm10H =wAyI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----