According to Krishnakant Mane: # Still no confirmation for my query on some thing similar to Heads up # display? # Is such a feature there in Gnome 3.6?
I believe you are referring to the menu for your current application window that is available in Unity? Yes, GNOME-shell has this also, and 3.8 is an improvement of this feature over 3.6 even, with better integration of default applications. However, it seems that the transition is going a bit more slowly than it did in Unity. Many applications only have "Quit" up there. So far, it seems that Nautilus and possibly the terminal have done the most transition work there. It is to be expected that the applications that ship with GNOME will have made this transition more quickly and smoothly than other applications at this time. I am hoping this is maybe a freedesktop specification, however, so other applications will likely follow if this is the case. If you are referring to something different, ignore what I just wrote and indicate the specific features you need or behaviors you are expecting. # Also, I wish to know from all the eminent list members, is Gnome shell # the right path to go for a long terms solution? I would definitely say yes at this point, especially since it is more widely used by virtue of the fact that it is available in more distros. Unity, although free software, is still primarily developed by Canonical, and is not included by default in any distro other than standard Ubuntu, meaning that overall, less resources are available for development at this time. # Is it any faster in performance as compared to Unity? I can't speak specifically to performance, since the only times I have used Unity recently have been on a very old machine and a virtual machine that had half my physical resources allocated to it. It seems a tiny bit less responsive to me, but that is to be expected given the circumstances. I haven't tested it on recent bare metal. Having said this, even if Unity and gnome-shell are exactly the same in terms of actual performance on hardware, I find gnome-shell to be faster from a productivity standpoint. I believe this is an opinion based on personal preference, but I seem to be able to navigate faster and do more in less time with gnome-shell than I could with Unity, and 3.8 has made a major improvement in that regard. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie" -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
