Day: Taking GNOME 3 to the next level [LWN.net]

Day: Taking GNOME 3 to the next level

Posted Sep 4, 2012 19:26 UTC (Tue) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
In reply to: Day: Taking GNOME 3 to the next level by luya
Parent article: Day: Taking GNOME 3 to the next level

To some, a discoverable "Power Off" doesn't seem like it should require an extension.

> Gnome 3.6 brings power off back fyi.

That's why Oak's article begins, "What a shame it comes only now..."

His post sounded pretty level-headed to me. If you read it as bashing, I suggest you compare it to some of the trolls.

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Day: Taking GNOME 3 to the next level

Posted Sep 5, 2012 19:48 UTC (Wed) by oak (subscriber, #2786) [Link]

The main points of my long post could be summarized as:
* Several of Unity design decisions are a usability disaster for people with smaller 4:3 displays and who need to use also Windows (which works differently). I hope Gnome3 isn't going to adopt them
* Gnome3 is pretty OK and seems to be getting better, but for slightly older laptops XFCE still seems a bit better fit than the Gnome version in current distros. Especially for people who mainly use just LibreOffice and Firefox i.e. for whom maturity of XFCE default apps isn't a problem...
* Switching away from Gnome3 is easier than installing 3rd party extensions for it. Because of this, telling people who aren't gnome developers / enthusiasts to use extensions sounds like a polite way to say "piss off"

I mean, extensions are a nice mechanism for gnome enthusiasts to experiment different kind of UI features, but gnome developers shouldn't expect others to install random code from some www-site they have no experience with.

Without such code being useful/important enough to have been packaged in the distro repositories i.e. tested to work with gnome version one is using & not break it, signed etc, why normal user would even consider installing it?

Day: Taking GNOME 3 to the next level

Posted Sep 6, 2012 8:48 UTC (Thu) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link]

gnome developers shouldn't expect others to install random code from some www-site they have no experience with.

I expect (in the probabilistic sense) others to install random code from some website they have no experience with, even if I don't expect (in the Nelsonian sense) them to.