On 08/28/2012 11:57 AM, Jacob Albretsen wrote: > On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 10:23:07 AM Levi Pearson wrote: > >> A feature of Gnome Shell that I really like is the ability to have >> one monitor out of a pair have a fixed workspace while the other switches >> between workspaces via the workspace-switching keys or mouse interactions. >> This lets me keep my primary task always in view while I swap between >> secondary tasks, which helps me stay focused on what I'm doing. > This was about the only thing I liked about Gnome 3. > > To name a few items that bugged me: > > I hated that when I wanted to open a NEW terminal window, clicking the icon on > my bar would bring me to the one I already opened. > > I hated that Desktop 4 with my web browser didn't stay Desktop 4 if I closed > everything on Desktop 3. Is it a crime to have Desktop 3 empty? > > Yes yes, I know that I can change all this if I can find an RPM that changes > it. If my distro has built one. If not, roll the dice and hope one that > someone has made one that works. I hate that too. > > I'm all for lightweight keyboard oriented desktops if that suits you, and they > are out there. Gnome (2) and KDE are not lightweight, and those of us that > choose to use one of them needs to accept that. If I want to change the > default functionality of my desktop, I want to be able to right click or go > into a control panel and check / uncheck a checkbox. Not have to hunt down an > RPM that supposedly changes my desktop behavior that my distro may or may not > have. > > But that's just me and my two cents. > > - Jake > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ >
I hate how cumbersome it has become to have multiple windows on the screen at the same time (or is it even possible?), and the OS X-ish window presentation when I want to know what I have open. Yeah, I could alt-tab to see it, but that's just crazy talk. I HATE the KDE4 memory leaks a the akonadi/db-backend/nepomuk/stringi garbage that's can't be truly killed! I wasn't too keen on the new start menu, but I hardly ever used it before anyway. The alt-f2 search giving results from windows I have open is stupid, I just want to start a silly program. And the buggy, unusable KIO-slaves and systray status bars drive me nuts. I saw gnome-classic in the debian repos the other day, and thought was thrilled that someone in a user-driven distro was finally paying attention. Oh wait, no, it's just Gnome-3 painted to look like Gnome 2. Still the same lame desktop experience. XFCE seemed a little better, but still kind of a kludge. KDE Trinity is looking better and better all the time, and I may switch back to it when I finally give up all hope that KDE devs will stop innovating and start fixing what should work. Dolphin would be particularly hard to give up on now. ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
