I thought you may be interested in what I encountered. In my evaluation, I got more negative feelings about Gnome than the 3.6 version. With 3.6 version, for any program not within the favourites bar, it requires 4 mouse clicks to launch.
With Fedora 19, Gnome 4.x it takes 7 mouse clicks. By the way, with Cinnamon, it is 1 mouse click to open the menu, then slide to the appropriate application and click a second time. Done. There is a favourites bar as well on the side, and a second favourites bar on the bottom panel. For a user of the system. Office, browse, email, some installed packages and games, Gnome 4.x is very heavy on using the left mouse button. I ended up with tendonitus and had to quit using Gnome, or suffer major tendon damage (repetitive action damage). It is I that had the problem and I cannot say that others will have experienced similar problems. I do have questions about Gnome 4. What is the difference between Favourites bar contents and Frequent items. If items are used frequently, they should replace the items in the favourites bar. Frenquent items list is maintained dynamically, and often incorrectly, and the other is a static placement. Did anyone notice that if an item is in Frequent side of the collection, it is no longer in the All side of the collection. My major grype with Gnome Desktop is the [:::] (9 sided die) launcher. Why is it not removed from the favourites bar and placed next to Activities? Putting it there would save two clicks on the mouse. With a little logic, it may even be possible to replace Activities by this [:::] launcher. If we look at the Linux users in the world, the majority of the population writes from left to right. (Arabic, Hebrew, and a few other languages are right to left). Therefore it made better sense to have the favourites bar and the workspace selection on the right side of the desktop presentation. Why do we have to slide from extreme top left to extreme right to select an alternate workspace. Ergonomical design and how people use the computer to generate output would indicate that there is much to do to improve Gnome. I am trying to be positive about identifying and fixing items that cause Linux users to shy away from Gnome. Regards Leslie Mr. Leslie Satenstein 50 years in Information Technology and going strong. Yesterday was a good day, today is a better day, and tomorrow will be even better.mailto:[email protected] alternative: [email protected] SENT FROM MY OPEN SOURCE LINUX SYSTEM. --- On Tue, 4/2/13, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Welcome to the "design-team" mailing list To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 3:43 PM Welcome to the [email protected] mailing list! To post to this list, send your email to: [email protected] General information about the mailing list is at: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team If you ever want to unsubscribe or change your options (eg, switch to or from digest mode, change your password, etc.), visit your subscription page at: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/options/design-team/lsatenstein%40yahoo.com You can also make such adjustments via email by sending a message to: [email protected] with the word `help' in the subject or body (don't include the quotes), and you will get back a message with instructions. You must know your password to change your options (including changing the password, itself) or to unsubscribe. It is: efkaahvo Normally, Mailman will remind you of your lists.fedoraproject.org mailing list passwords once every month, although you can disable this if you prefer. This reminder will also include instructions on how to unsubscribe or change your account options. There is also a button on your options page that will email your current password to you.
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