On 14.01.2012 22:19, Roger Luedecke wrote:
What REALLY changed with Gnome 3? The desktop shell is the only real change. That experience can be replicated with already existing technology. Honestly, the only people I hear saying they are pleased with Gnome3 are the extremist fanboys. Those are the folks who have too much emotional investment in Gnome to admit it sucks.
I don't think so. I also heard about people who used GNOME in version 3 the first time, and who are satisfied with it.
In 12.1 KDE 4.7 was so damn glitchy and sluggish I finally just rolled back to Gnome on 11.4. Honestly... now that I'm actually getting acquainted with it, I'm falling in love with it and can't imagine why such a well polished thing is going to be utterly f*&^$d off. Gnome was about as close as we have gotten to the holy grail of desktop Linux, and now its being twisted into some awkward, ugly, inversatile, monolithic monstrosity.
Well, I had have some GNOME 2 installations in the past, but I always build me a plain-GNOME-2 environment, means to create a dock with three menus on the top of the desktop. I also didn't used the Novell menu that often, due to I couldn't work with it that well (The menu showed only ten programs and then a button to show a list with more. In the time I scroll the list, I would have opened the program over the shell at least ten times.)
That criticism is also valid to Gnome 3 which will not permit you to use a traditional start menu. Gnome3 says that is too hard for you to comprehend.
I haven't said that it's all better with GNOME 3. From my point of view, both are bullshit, because /I/ don't like them. Nevertheless, they're both desktop environments I would suggest to people, if they ask me.
Anyway, GNOME 3 definitely is a new way of desktop experience, but others are following that idea, like Unity or Windows 8. I guess the last one will force most of the people to "love" such ideas, so in the end, GNOME 3 was the right way.
If you still don't like it, that's okay. That's why there's KDE, Xfce, LXDE and so many others, I'd grow old if I'd count them all ;-)
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On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 23:36 +0100, K. Dennis Leyendecker wrote: partial to showed so many issues this time around. Thus I was forced to use a different environment, in this case rolling back to the Gnome 2 of 11.4. With Gnome3, this won't be a viable option. I'll be forced into XFCE or LXDE, or even yet some more obscure solution. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org