The GNOME project at 15 [LWN.net]

The GNOME project at 15

Posted Aug 15, 2012 10:31 UTC (Wed) by debacle (subscriber, #7114)
In reply to: The GNOME project at 15 by bojan
Parent article: The GNOME project at 15

After the GNOME 1 to 2 transition, GNOME was too huge and too slow for my machine, so I switched to XFCE (3?). After a while, GNOME developers did an amazing work and improved performance, memory usage and stability, so I switched back to GNOME. Now GNOME 3 drove me nuts (mainly the depressing dark colours I can't change and the inconsistent look of different dialogues, some dark, some bright), so I switched to XFCE, again. I'm sure, the GNOME developers will fix the issues.

Happy birthday, GNOME! We'll meet again.

(don't know where, don't know when, sorry Vera Lynn)

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The GNOME project at 15

Posted Aug 15, 2012 13:53 UTC (Wed) by juliank (subscriber, #45896) [Link]

Apps for visual consumption are dark, the others normal.

OT: Accessibility problem with GNOME 3.x

Posted Aug 15, 2012 14:50 UTC (Wed) by debacle (subscriber, #7114) [Link]

And so are a lot of dialogues, e.g. of network manager applet, IIRC. GNOME 2 had a really nice and consistent default look and I had never the wish to change it. GNOME 3 is hard to read for my old eyes (too dark) and I could not change the look to sth. readable and consistent. But I'm sure, Debian Jessie will have a nice GNOME 3 (at the ago of 17 or 18 by then) for me, again :~)