Re: Gnome 3 Discussions

2011-04-26 Thread Ben Eisenbraun
I think what was most interesting to me about the direction GNOME 3 took is that someone still believes in the possibility of mainstream use of Linux on the desktop! The CEO of Red Hat basically said that the linux desktop market was not a goal for them, and yet we had two Red Hat employees

Re: Gnome 3 Discussions

2011-04-26 Thread Richard Pieri
On Apr 26, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: I think your last sentence might hit the nail on the head. But, I think we, in the Linux community, have some interesting issues. I disagree. I don't see this as a problem. Rather, I see this as the excuse used to avoid addressing the

Re: Gnome 3 Discussions

2011-04-26 Thread Tom Metro
David Kramer wrote: Having a configuration setting in an advanced tab somewhere to turn on showing the names/icons/both in app links does NOT make anything harder for the beginners, and enables the power user. OK. I'm not opposed to the ability to configure things. As an end-user, it's usually

Re: Gnome 3 Discussions

2011-04-25 Thread Rob Hasselbaum
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 1:24 AM, David Kramer da...@thekramers.net wrote: Of course this leaves me in a quandary, because I gave up KDE when 4 came out and the whole UI was turned into an array of candy-like icons all nearly identical. As a KDE 3.5 user who took a reluctant sabbatical to

Re: Gnome 3 Discussions

2011-04-25 Thread Tom Metro
David Kramer wrote: I also took great offense at some of his statements. For instance, I talked about the problem of needing several apps that do similar jobs because they each have their strengths. His answer was We'll just have to work to get one application that can do all of that. That

Re: Gnome 3 Discussions

2011-04-25 Thread omegah...@gmail.com
Feldman g...@blu.org To: discuss@blu.org Subject: Gnome 3 Discussions Date: Mon, Apr 25, 2011 2:01 pm On 04/25/2011 11:19 AM, Rob Hasselbaum wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 1:24 AM, David Kramer da...@thekramers.net wrote: Of course this leaves me in a quandary, because I gave up KDE when 4 came

Re: Gnome 3 Discussions

2011-04-24 Thread David Kramer
On 04/22/2011 11:42 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: Since Gnome 3 has been released, it was one of the topics in last Wednesday's BLU meeting, and will be in the next releases of OpenSuSe 11.4, Fedora 15, Ubuntu 11.04**, I'd like to start a discussion on Gnome 3. I don't want a Gnome vs. KDE war,

Gnome 3 Discussions

2011-04-22 Thread Jerry Feldman
Since Gnome 3 has been released, it was one of the topics in last Wednesday's BLU meeting, and will be in the next releases of OpenSuSe 11.4, Fedora 15, Ubuntu 11.04**, I'd like to start a discussion on Gnome 3. I don't want a Gnome vs. KDE war, just a somewhat intelligent discussion from those

Re: Gnome 3 Discussions

2011-04-22 Thread David Miller
A little off topic but I installed Natty on my laptop earlier this week and have been playing around with Unity. Coming into this I didn't think I would like Unity but I've found it to be a very nice desktop environment. There are a couple of things I'm still getting used to like not being able

Re: Gnome 3 Discussions

2011-04-22 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Apr 22, 2011, at 11:42 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: Since Gnome 3 has been released, it was one of the topics in last Wednesday's BLU meeting, and will be in the next releases of OpenSuSe 11.4, Fedora 15, Ubuntu 11.04**, I'd like to start a discussion on Gnome 3. I don't want a Gnome vs. KDE