On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Marc Fouquet <[email protected]> wrote:
> After installing Ubuntu Natty with Gnome Shell from the PPA and using it > for a few hours, I also want to give some feedback. > > First of all Gnome Shell appears conceptually nice and consistent (this is > my main criticism regarding Unity, which is inconsistent and buggy in many > places). I am not sure yet if I like the new workflow better than the > traditional one, but I will definitely test it for a longer period of time. > > My main points are the following ones: > > ====== Suspend instead of Shutdown ====== > > Surely this has been discussed extensively, I just want to mention that > suspend simply does not work for me (tested on two computers, both do not > wake up correctly). > > Generally I like the gnome philosophy of simplifying things by removing > options. But leaving non-technical users with a default setting that does > not work is not a good choice. > It should only be a default if we detect you computer can support it. Can you give us some hardware details, and try: pm-utils --suspend && echo "Supported" || echo "Not supported" in a terminal? > ====== Switching Applications ====== > > Before actually testing Gnome Shell in "production use" with many open > windows, I had imagined that switching applications in the expose view would > work a bit faster and more efficient. With many windows I often find myself > spending time on searching for the right one, as their minified versions > look very similar. > > I think in the expose view, each application's icon should be shown in the > minified window. This way finding the right window would be easier. > > Also for my feeling, the animation when opening and leaving the activities > view takes a bit too much time. > You can use the dash to switch between running applications too! I'm not sure why, but most people don't discover this... > ====== Minor remarks ====== > > - I really miss a way to launch applications on startup. In Ubuntu the > "gnome-session-properties" dialog can still be accessed from the command > line, but settings are ignored. > There should be something in the new control center.
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