Re: Good read from a new GNOME user

2019-05-09 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Wed, 2019-05-08 at 16:05 +0200, jtoj...@gmail.com wrote: > It does not work very well, though: > > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/issues/1 It works as well as it possibly can. Those search terms aren't automatically pulled from the UI, or the documentation, but manually

Re: Good read from a new GNOME user

2019-05-08 Thread jtojnar--- via desktop-devel-list
It does not work very well, though: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/issues/1 On Wed, 8 May, 2019 at 10:14 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Tue, 2019-05-07 at 18:32 +0100, Calum Benson via desktop-devel-list wrote: > On 2 May 2019, at 11:19, jtojnar--- via desktop-devel-list

Re: Good read from a new GNOME user

2019-05-08 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2019-05-07 at 18:32 +0100, Calum Benson via desktop-devel-list wrote: > > On 2 May 2019, at 11:19, jtojnar--- via desktop-devel-list < > > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org> wrote: > > > > Something like full-text search similar to one Firefox has in its > > preferences might be nicer and

Re: Good read from a new GNOME user

2019-05-07 Thread Calum Benson via desktop-devel-list
> On 2 May 2019, at 11:19, jtojnar--- via desktop-devel-list > wrote: > > Something like full-text search similar to one Firefox has in its preferences > might be nicer and allow us to merge the two configuration applications. > >

Re: Good read from a new GNOME user

2019-05-06 Thread jtojnar--- via desktop-devel-list
On Thu, 2 May, 2019 at 11:26 AM, Carmen Bianca Bakker wrote: So from a user perspective: Yes, it's annoying that some settings are in GNOME Tweaks, and there is no way to know which settings are where short of simply remembering. But from a design perspective, I can appreciate that GNOME

Re: Good read from a new GNOME user

2019-05-02 Thread Jan Claeys
On Thu, 2019-05-02 at 11:26 +0200, Carmen Bianca Bakker wrote: > > 8c. GNOME Tweaks shouldn't exist. > > Slight agree, with a caveat. The thing I appreciate about GNOME is > that I don't have to go through a lot of settings to find what I'm > looking for. The mental load of using GNOME Settings

Re: Good read from a new GNOME user

2019-05-02 Thread Florian Müllner
On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 1:27 PM Allan Day wrote: > > > 4. Unnecessary notifications (e.g., "Application is ready") > > Indeed, my feeling is that those notifications do more harm than good. > I can't see an issue for this; does anyone know of one? There are several bugs in bugzilla, but IMHO the

Re: Good read from a new GNOME user

2019-05-02 Thread Allan Day
Thanks Britt for starting this discussion, and thanks to Carmen for the useful summary. I don't agree with every point raised, but there are a lot of valid ones. I'll provide some brief comments from a design perspective. Obviously there are a lot of issues here: individual discussions should

Re: Good read from a new GNOME user

2019-05-02 Thread Andre Klapper
On Thu, 2019-05-02 at 11:01 +0200, Carmen Bianca Bakker wrote: > I'll summarise the raised points quickly here for everyone's > convenience: For the records, the user also created tasks for many topics: https://gitlab.gnome.org/groups/GNOME/-/issues?scope=all_username=uncertainquark Specific

Re: Good read from a new GNOME user

2019-05-02 Thread Calum Benson via desktop-devel-list
On 2 May 2019, at 10:26, Carmen Bianca Bakker wrote: > > Je ĵaŭ, 2019-05-02 je 11:01 +0200, Carmen Bianca Bakker skribis: > >> 5e. Bookmarking folders isn't discoverable. > > Agree. Putting this under right-click should be an easy fix. If you want to make something discoverable, putting it on

Re: Good read from a new GNOME user

2019-05-02 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Thu, 2019-05-02 at 11:26 +0200, Carmen Bianca Bakker wrote: > > 2b. No battery percentage on status bar. > > Slight agree on all, but do not know how to fix this. I implemented this: $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface show-battery-percentage true but it doesn't have a UI:

Re: Good read from a new GNOME user

2019-05-02 Thread Carmen Bianca Bakker
Having written the summary, I'll make a slight effort to give some input on the points. I hope that, like the summary, they are insightful. I'm removing the points on which I have no strong/informed opinion. Je ĵaŭ, 2019-05-02 je 11:01 +0200, Carmen Bianca Bakker skribis: > 1. The desktop does

Re: Good read from a new GNOME user

2019-05-02 Thread Carmen Bianca Bakker
Hi Britt, Thanks for posting this to the mailing list. I'll summarise the raised points quickly here for everyone's convenience: 1. The desktop does nothing. There is no functionality other than on the top bar. Specifically: There is no dash/dock. 2. The status bar does very little.

Good read from a new GNOME user

2019-05-01 Thread Britt Yazel
Ladies and Gentlemen, If we can all take a quick break from discussing Git branch naming, I came across this users' review of GNOME 3.32 after using it for the first time, and I thought he had a pretty well thought out set of criticisms.