1994 called, they'd like their directory icons back.
Hands-on: GNOME 3.4 arrives, introducing significant design changes
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Re: Hands-on: GNOME 3.4 arrives, introducing significant design changes
#22I've been forcing myself to use GNOME-shell for the past few months, just to see if it was as bad as most people make it out to be, and I have to grudgingly admit that some of the design choices are elegant. For example, I find myself liking the activities overview more and more since it combines together functionalities that you'd have to access separately on other desktop environments, namely a keyboard based appli…
Another agree here, I really feel like its elastic workspaces and brain-dead simple "expose" are killer features that should be in every desktop environment. It's a shame so many people lump Unity and Gnome 3 together.
Re: Hands-on: GNOME 3.4 arrives, introducing significant design changes
#23I've been forcing myself to use GNOME-shell for the past few months, just to see if it was as bad as most people make it out to be, and I have to grudgingly admit that some of the design choices are elegant. For example, I find myself liking the activities overview more and more since it combines together functionalities that you'd have to access separately on other desktop environments, namely a keyboard based appli…
I find there are a few killer extensions like https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/10/windownavigator/ and https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/60/overlay-icons/. The first one means you aren't forced to grab the mouse in overlay mode (which was my biggest complaint), the second means you have a chance in hell of recognizing what something is when you have more then around 4 windows open.
I like it too, but the big things for me (after stability issues) are
1) the notification area feels not well done. I am constantly triggering it when I don't want to, and I find it is a pain to trigger when I do want it.
2) the search function in overlay mode is really choppy, which is funny because I would consider this a solved problem in gnome (with gnome-do)
I think its a definite improvement over gnome 2, but it probably needs another 2-3 years of dev time before things are as polished as what you would expect nowadays.
Re: Hands-on: GNOME 3.4 arrives, introducing significant design changes
#24I've been forcing myself to use GNOME-shell for the past few months, just to see if it was as bad as most people make it out to be, and I have to grudgingly admit that some of the design choices are elegant. For example, I find myself liking the activities overview more and more since it combines together functionalities that you'd have to access separately on other desktop environments, namely a keyboard based appli…
Another agree here, I really feel like its elastic workspaces and brain-dead simple "expose" are killer features that should be in every desktop environment. It's a shame so many people lump Unity and Gnome 3 together.
i hate unity with a burning passion, but gnome 3 is my favorite environment in linux right now :)
Re: Hands-on: GNOME 3.4 arrives, introducing significant design changes
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
The window is the unit of focus (not apps), so I can rightly argue that switching focus should work on the unit of focus i.e. windows. Note that I'm not arguing against having an app concept or a "switch app" action. The problem is killing the "switch window" action.
Mac OS X is Cmd+Tab to switch apps and Cmd+` to switch windows.
gnome 3 works that way now too, it is one of my favorite changes :) (even though it gets the most hate)
Re: Hands-on: GNOME 3.4 arrives, introducing significant design changes
#26At some point I'm going to have to get off of Gnome 2, not looking forward to it. Gnome 2 + Compiz + Gnome-Do completely and utterly rocks, particularly with a dual monitor setup. KDE was a bit of a mess last I checked. Some people are saying XFCE is maybe somewhat Gnome-2-ish?
I was in the same boat as you. I looked long and hard and realized that 1) KDE has truly magnificent window management and customizability and 2) the only environment comparable to Gnome 2 in resource footprint is XFCE.
I chose KDE but your requirements may vary. The cool part about linux is Live CDs/USB drives. It's not difficult to try out new things.
Re: Hands-on: GNOME 3.4 arrives, introducing significant design changes
#27I think the title is misleading about the significant change of gnome. it still looks conservatively out of date.
open source applications generally have had a history of ugly user interfaces. the reason behind it has understandably been: well it's open source and free, we don't have the resources of microsoft and apple to get a topnotch designer.
it's competitor kde is no better. kde's look can best be described as mimicking windows ui done wrong.
these facelifts are not significant changes. it's time for a serious re-design.
Re: Hands-on: GNOME 3.4 arrives, introducing significant design changes
#281994 called, they'd like their directory icons back.
Yes. For how smart the shell looks, the windows and its contents look very bleak, sterile in the best of cases. I guess they aimed for neutrality there, but I can't say I dig the paper-polypropylene look.
Re: Hands-on: GNOME 3.4 arrives, introducing significant design changes
#29At some point I'm going to have to get off of Gnome 2, not looking forward to it. Gnome 2 + Compiz + Gnome-Do completely and utterly rocks, particularly with a dual monitor setup. KDE was a bit of a mess last I checked. Some people are saying XFCE is maybe somewhat Gnome-2-ish?
Yes, you may want to try both xfce and lxde
Re: Hands-on: GNOME 3.4 arrives, introducing significant design changes
#30I've been forcing myself to use GNOME-shell for the past few months, just to see if it was as bad as most people make it out to be, and I have to grudgingly admit that some of the design choices are elegant. For example, I find myself liking the activities overview more and more since it combines together functionalities that you'd have to access separately on other desktop environments, namely a keyboard based appli…
I find there are a few killer extensions like https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/10/windownavigator/ and https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/60/overlay-icons/ . The first one means you aren't forced to grab the mouse in overlay mode (which was my biggest complaint), the second means you have a chance in hell of recognizing what something is when you have more then around 4 windows open. I like it too, but the…
http://extensions.gnome.org is really the killer feature of Gnome-shell. Its really unfortunate that it is not publicised more.
I mean seamless installation and control of desktop extensions from the browser? awesome!