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 nothing. There is no functionality other than on > the top bar. Specifically: There is no dash/dock. The desktop doing nothing is desirable. GNOME gets out of the way. The dash/dock is such a common pain point for some people, though, that it seems worth it to (a.) enable a toggle for this and (b.) do some research into what the default state of this toggle should be. > 2. The status bar does very little. Specifically: Indicators like wi-fi > are hidden inside sub-menus. > > 2a. Connecting to wi-fi is too many steps. > > 2b. No battery percentage on status bar. Slight agree on all, but do not know how to fix this. > 2d. No suspend button. Full agree. This isn't a problem on laptops, but on desktops it is kind of annoying. > 3a. It is difficult to reach the app drawer. Slight disagree. It is 2 steps to the app drawer (versus 1 step). But I reckon that most people's workflow will be (a.) using keyboard search instead or (b.) pinning often-used application as favourite. This would be solved if the dash/dock became an officially supported feature of GNOME. > 3b. Application names are cut off. Full agree. This is annoying specifically for translations of GNOME. > 5e. Bookmarking folders isn't discoverable. Agree. Putting this under right-click should be an easy fix. > 8b. Difficult to set custom wallpaper. Agree. > 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 is very low, and I like that. GNOME Tweaks is the opposite world. I don't need 95% of the settings in GNOME Tweaks. But 5% of the settings are important to me. The problem is: Those 5% are different for everyone. I would love it if my 5% were moved from Tweaks to Settings, but that might just clutter the Settings app for some other people. 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 Settings is as clutter-free as possible. With kindness, Carmen
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