On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpie...@mecheye.net> wrote: > n Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Pasha R <pashar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Ben Greear <gree...@candelatech.com> wrote: >>> I couldn't find a better place to voice my displeasure of Gnome 3, >>> so I'm posting here. >>> >>> I really just want gnome-2 back. Fallback mode sort of works, but its >>> still not as good as gnome 2 was. I do work on my computer, not just >>> open one or two windows and browse the web. I want one-click to open >>> new Terminals. I want to drag the Terminal icon into the top task bar >>> to accomplish that. Right-click should work without having to press >>> Alt. I want the bottom task dock or whatever it's called so I can easily >>> select >>> from the multitude of windows I have on my desktop. >>> >>> Please have a one-click (or very few clicks) option to get the old >>> gnome-2 interface back. If you want to have a new way of doing things, >>> that's fine too, but please don't break the old ways of doing things >>> so badly. >>> >>> I'm downgrading to Fedora 14 for now..hope things clear up by >>> F16 or F17. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ben >>> >> >> Welcome to the club. But, IMHO, complaining here won't help - >> developers repeatedly stated that they won't change anything, and >> probably will make things even worse. I'm staying with F14 while it is >> supported and looking at KDE and XFCE as a possible future >> replacement. > > If you find that GNOME3 doesn't work for you, feel free to change to > another desktop environment. No offence taken. It's not for everyone, > and GNOME 3.0 was a bit unstable and buggy. If it was perfect, I'd be > out of a job :). We're making changes every day, hopefully to be a bit > better. > > A somewhat overarching theme of GNOME 3.2, and GNOME3 in general is to > recognize how online services influence how people use computers and > provide conveniently integration with IM, email, and for now, Google > Documents. Some might feel a bit offended or scared of better online > integration. If you are, feel free to change to another desktop > environment. And we are sort of venturing into the unexplored here for > a desktop environment, and we may not make the best choices all the > time, and we're not going to be perfect from day one. > > (I'm using the "we" pronoun to conveniently refer to the GNOME desktop > environment and its developers, but this is my opinion) > > (and a PSA: if you have any specific "doesn't work" complaints: > crashes, slow, instability, something happened that you have > reasonable belief to expect wasn't normal, please file bugs: I get > frustrated when someone points out a bug on reddit or on a blog, and > I've never seen it reported, even though it's a bug that we probably > would have fixed.) > >> _______________________________________________ >> gnome-shell-list mailing list >> gnome-shell-list@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list >> > > -- > Jasper >
No, my problem is not limited to bugs, that wouldn't stop me from using GNOME :) My problem is that shell is simply inconvenient to use and insulting attitude of developers that think that they know better what I should or shouldn't want to do with my computer. Extensions, at least in their current state, resolve my usability problems very poorly. With a lot of effort of hunting extensions all over the internet, I regain small part of the functionality I could setup with few mouse clicks with G2. The almost mindless action of launching new application now became a full-scale "activity", and going there actually distracts me from my work. The list can go on and on, and in general, I think Linus summed it all up very well. _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list