GNOME 3.2 Released

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Post by Garbage » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 4:10 AM UTC

Re: GNOME 3.2 Released

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Post by devinmrn » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 5:16 AM UTC

Anyone else move away from Gnome recently? I've switched to XFCE and find the workflow better adapted to what I'm used to, I gave gnome-shell a month or two before I couldn't take it anymore.

Re: GNOME 3.2 Released

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Post by theatrus2 » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 5:19 AM UTC

devinmrn wrote: post #2

Anyone else move away from Gnome recently? I've switched to XFCE and find the workflow better adapted to what I'm used to, I gave gnome-shell a month or two before I couldn't take it anymore.

I stuck it out with Gnome 2.x on Ubuntu, until I "had" to convert that machine to Windows 7 (for running IAR). Windows 7 is somehow an improvement over Gnome 3.

Re: GNOME 3.2 Released

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Post by aroman » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 5:39 AM UTC

devinmrn wrote: post #2

Anyone else move away from Gnome recently? I've switched to XFCE and find the workflow better adapted to what I'm used to, I gave gnome-shell a month or two before I couldn't take it anymore.

Really? I've played around with GNOME Shell a few times, but recently I've been seriously considering using it for my laptop because I would like to get the most real-estate-optimized modern GUI possible on there.

Right now I'm running Pantheon (elementary project's DE) on one partition and i3 (tiling WM) on another, and neither quite seem to feel right -- the former likely because it's very WIP (granted I'm optimistically biased being a core developer of the project).

What specifically have you found advantageous to your workflow with XFCE? What did you miss from GNOME-Shell, and what exactly made you switch?

Re: GNOME 3.2 Released

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Post by drivebyacct2 » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 5:46 AM UTC

I'm happy to see 3 shaping up like KDE4. It seems like the rough edges are being ironed out very quickly! I'd love to see the font dialog get more options rather than a simple cosmetic rearrangements. The Mac font chooser dialog is perfect and very compact too.

Re: GNOME 3.2 Released

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Post by devinmrn » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 5:52 AM UTC

aroman wrote: post #4

devinmrn wrote: post #2

Anyone else move away from Gnome recently? I've switched to XFCE and find the workflow better adapted to what I'm used to, I gave gnome-shell a month or two before I couldn't take it anymore.

Really? I've played around with GNOME Shell a few times, but recently I've been seriously considering using it for my laptop because I would like to get the most real-estate-optimized modern GUI possible on there. Right now I'm running Pantheon (elementary project's DE) on one partition and i3 (tiling WM) on another, and neither quite seem to feel right -- the former likely because it's very WIP (granted I'm optimist…

It seems like gnome-shell is trying to do something new with the way I manage running applications. I also miss being able to switch to workstations using the arrow keys and creating and deleting workstations on the fly messes with my workflow anyway, I usually delegate workspaces to different tasks or projects.

XFCE is lightweight and is more in line with how I think. I'm used to a taskbar, application menu, precreated workspaces and icons on the desktop. Could I use gnome-shell for everyday work? Yeah, but I would really be happy with the features above too. I just don't see why I should give up my established workflows.

Re: GNOME 3.2 Released

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Post by devinmrn » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 5:56 AM UTC

theatrus2 wrote: post #3

devinmrn wrote: post #2

Anyone else move away from Gnome recently? I've switched to XFCE and find the workflow better adapted to what I'm used to, I gave gnome-shell a month or two before I couldn't take it anymore.

I stuck it out with Gnome 2.x on Ubuntu, until I "had" to convert that machine to Windows 7 (for running IAR). Windows 7 is somehow an improvement over Gnome 3.

Yeah, right now I'm running Windows 7 on my desktop which is used only every now and then and my laptop is running Arch with XFCE. Have you taken a look at the fallback mode on Gnome 3? I tried it and it brought back the features I was used to but just the idea that it was a fallback mode was kinda unappealing, what makes the mode any worse off than gnome-shell?

Re: GNOME 3.2 Released

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Post by orblivion » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 6:00 AM UTC

devinmrn wrote: post #2

Anyone else move away from Gnome recently? I've switched to XFCE and find the workflow better adapted to what I'm used to, I gave gnome-shell a month or two before I couldn't take it anymore.

Funny, I can't get enough of it. It's rough around the edges probably because I'm running from the Gnome PPA on Ubuntu Natty, but the way it manages windows on multiple desktops is like nothing I've seen. It makes so much more sense. To each their own I suppose. Isn't there an option to go back to the traditional desktop?

Re: GNOME 3.2 Released

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Post by jannes » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 6:22 AM UTC

  GNOME core modules now only depend on introspection-based
  Python bindings (pygobject-3) and hence pygtk, gnome-python
  and gnome-python-desktop are not required any more.

Interesting. I have been out of the loop for a while. Does this mean that existing pygtk applications have to be ported to pygobject-3 or is it a simple "import" change?

Re: GNOME 3.2 Released

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Post by plaes » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 7:01 AM UTC

devinmrn wrote: post #2

Anyone else move away from Gnome recently? I've switched to XFCE and find the workflow better adapted to what I'm used to, I gave gnome-shell a month or two before I couldn't take it anymore.

I'm using awesome window manager with basic gnome-session (no panel) which still gives me most of the desktop integration (nm-applet, consolekit, policykit, etc)