On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 09:44:29AM +0100, Jonas Wagner wrote: > I'm not sure whether this is the right place for some gnome3 > feedback. However, I hope that the feedback will be valuable for > developers of Gnome.
Mostly use gnome-shell-list, but any list is fine. > A few days ago, gnome3 entered debian testing and thus my machine. > Here are a few first impressions. > > * Overall, I like it... I'm not going to switch back, even though I > have to change many of my workflows, and it's gonna need some time > to adapt. Cool! > * My graphic card was not configured properly before the update, so > the first thing I saw was gnome3's fallback mode. There was a popup > informing me of this. It provided a link to a help page. However, > the link led to the gnome3.org homepage, and as such was absolutely > useless. Please file a bug against gnome-shell so we can correct the link. Also please a bug against websites so we can add a redirect. Lastly, maybe bug against your distro to set it up immediately :) > * To ease transition, I removed my ~/.gnome2 folder... apparently, > this was not a good idea. In particular, now network-manager asks me > every time about wifi passwords. Could it be that the default > keyring is not re-created automatically? Any idea how I could fix > this? Some stuff is still stored under ~/.gnome2 and some other directories. > * One of the first things I wanted to do was to change the desktop > background. When using System Settings > Background, I can't select > any .png file (the Open button is grayed out if I try)! It works > when I open the png in eog, then select "Set as Desktop Background" > from the context menu. Should not happen. Please file a bug against gnome-control-center. > * Adding applications to my favorites was painful. I go to > Activities, then Applications, then select my app, then drag it to > the favorites pane. When I do this, the screen changes and displays > me the "Windows" part of the activities screen again! Why? So to add > another app, I have to again click on Applications again, select the > right category again, etc. Please file a bug against gnome-shell or tell it on gnome-shell-list. > * Files from my ~/Desktop folder are no more displayed on the desktop :-/ > > * What is the best way to switch between windows? The standard > mapping of alt-tab no longer switches between two windows of the > same application. It also changes virtual desktops sometimes. I've > discovered alt-esc which works more intuitively, but the whole thing > is confusing to me, and having two similar shortcuts needs a lot of > thought. alt-key above tab (usually alt-~) switches between existing windows. takes some getting used to. > * Closing the last window of a desktop opens the Activities screen. > I dislike this. My workflow used to be (1) close the program I was > using, (2) type ctrl-alt-left to go to the other desktop where other > work was running. Now I need one more action, to explicitely exit > from the activities screen. Bring up on gnome-shell-list. > * Opening a terminal on another desktop is very counter-intuitive. I > use terminals a lot, hence I added it to the favorites pane. When I > switch to a new Desktop, and click on the terminal icon in my > favorites, it changes back to the old desktop and selects some > already open terminal instead of starting a new one. I have to > explicitely drag the terminal icon to some empty space to start it > :( Known side effect. Not sure what is planned. > * I like the fact that I can start applications on another desktop, > by dragging the app icon to that desktop. Unfortunately, it doesn't > seem to work with some applications (Firefox and Thunderbird, for > example). Application has to properly support startup notification. File bugs with the applications. Their startup notification support is broken I think. > * Clicking on Activities > Applications shows an alphabetical list > of all applications. Is this really useful? The list of categories > is far away, on the other end of the screen. Very well known :P A redesign is planned, it'll totally change it, but only exists in mockups and might change. > * The direct search is cool! Is there a way I can extend it so it > finds every file, not just recently-used ones? Recently-used is also > a tad misleading, because files opened in non-gnome programs (or > even vim compiled with gnome support) do not get added to this list. No idea. Ask on gnome-shell-list. > To summarize: many things I like, congratulations! It would be great > to see some pitfalls ironed out. Feel free to discuss this or ask me > if anything is unclear. Thanks for feedback! -- Regards, Olav _______________________________________________ gnome-love mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love
