The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience [LWN.net]

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 16, 2011 15:23 UTC (Wed) by me@jasonclinton.com (subscriber, #52701)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience by nix
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

That's not the reason that GNOME 3 was launched. You can read what the reasons were here: https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/DesignHistory

* Finding windows was frustrating and difficult
* Workspaces were useful but not easy or natural to use
* Launching applications was labour-intensive and error-prone
* The panel suffered from over-configurability; applets were little used by most users

In short, we saw real problems which needed real solutions.

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The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 16, 2011 16:25 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (3 responses)

It sounds like the amount of mouse movement involved now has made at least two and possibly three of these cases *worse* than they were. (I wouldn't know: I'm a KDE and fvwm2 man. I used to be a GNOMEr but the loss of funtionality in the early GNOME 2 days turned me off for good. Software that won't change to act as I want it, rather than vice versa, gets dumped at once.)

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 16, 2011 16:27 UTC (Wed) by me@jasonclinton.com (subscriber, #52701) [Link] (2 responses)

> I wouldn't know

Then stop commenting?

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 16, 2011 17:44 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

My apologies for daring to point out how I as a human being use the machine, and why GNOME 3 would apparently not suffice. If ex-users are considered to be lost causes, so be it.

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 24, 2011 14:16 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]

>Then stop commenting?

You have yet to make a single comment on this article that isn't outright trolling, but you seem to feel compelled to randomly pop up in every subthread to hurl some abuse.

Commenters like yourself are the reason that I consider LWN to be a largely hostile, poisonous community, and consequently make less of an attempt than I should to behave in a way that I might in a forum I respect.

The one potential positive outcome of your posting is that I resolve to try harder to act as if LWN is more like the place I want it to be, on the grounds that if everyone did that, perhaps it would be.

If only it were possible to killfile entire categories of articles as flamebait, the overall experience would probably be much improved.