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> Easier window resizing Thank goodness! This alone about GNOME Shell has infuriated me more than anything else. I can deal with changes in how to do things (even though I added a window panel back). But this alone was terrible!
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Ubuntu switched their default UI from GNOME 2.x to Unity in 11.04, and after trying it out for a while I decided it felt clunky and awkward, so I decided to try out GNOME 3 from the official unofficial PPA - and man, I'm glad I did. The overall feel is just... more polished than Unity, and even more polished than GNOME 2.x. I like being able to bring up the overlay with a keystroke, then start typing the name of the…
The one thing I really like about Unity is the ability to switch between the windows with Super + [1-9]. Is there a similar functionality in Gnome 3/Shell?
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Is Gnome 3's system tray still off-limits to 3rd party applications? I like having Dropbox's sync indicator and Tomboy's note list running in the tray, and I'm not sure how that functionality would be replicated in Gnome 3.
Dropbox's sync indicator is still in the corner for me, just as it always has been, so it seems to work fine. How is everyone's alt-tab performance? I've been trying to like it, but alt-tab is so slow that it's barely usable. I don't have another GNOME3 computer to compare it to, so I don't know if it's something wrong with my configuration or hardware.
Oddly, Super seems to work with less lag (though it stutters) than Alt-Tab for me while I'm running something resource-intensive.
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Dropbox's sync indicator is still in the corner for me, just as it always has been, so it seems to work fine. How is everyone's alt-tab performance? I've been trying to like it, but alt-tab is so slow that it's barely usable. I don't have another GNOME3 computer to compare it to, so I don't know if it's something wrong with my configuration or hardware.
alt+tab is the same speed as it always was. are you running on a really old pc by any chance? Things I dislike about Gnome 3.0: * Alt-tab is between apps, with alt+(thing above tab) for between windows in an app * Super+L doesn't work from the zoomed out view * Screen lock is partially broken: gnome-screensaver doesn't guarantee to lock the screen when switching users or suspending. It continues on whatever happens.
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The one thing I really like about Unity is the ability to switch between the windows with Super + [1-9]. Is there a similar functionality in Gnome 3/Shell?
I use Unity every day at work and Gnome 3 every day at home. There are two things about Unity that make me like it a lot more than Gnome 3: 1) The window placement. Since in both Unity and Gnome 3 you can't replace the window manager, having some measure of tiling built in is a necessity. In Unity you can manually tile windows using the Ctrl-Alt-Numpad keys. Gnome 3 just has the much more limited "aero snap" feature.…
If you mean 'make windows neatly line up against each other', try holding Shift while you're dragging a window around in GNOME 3. This is an old feature of Metacity from GNOME 2, which Compiz (Unity's WM) only approximates.
> Easier window resizing Thank goodness! This alone about GNOME Shell has infuriated me more than anything else. I can deal with changes in how to do things (even though I added a window panel back). But this alone was terrible!
Metacity and Mutter default to resizing with Alt+middle-drag rather than Alt+right-drag, but you can fix that in gconf-editor: "/apps/metacity/general/resize_with_right_button"
Quite cool, lots of small improvements, and a major shift towards service-orientedness and touch friendliness. It would be an appealing idea to try GNOME Shell on my ExoPC tablet when 3.2 gets released.
I can guarantee that it works pretty well on the ExoPC.
> Easier window resizing Thank goodness! This alone about GNOME Shell has infuriated me more than anything else. I can deal with changes in how to do things (even though I added a window panel back). But this alone was terrible!
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