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

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 16, 2011 17:23 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

If your trying really hard to hunt for an obscure reason that GNOME 3 isn't going to work for you without having even *tried* it, then I'm afraid there isn't anything that I could say that would change your mind.

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Posted Mar 16, 2011 17:51 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (4 responses)

No, I'm not. I'm trying to point out valid existing working patterns that *do not fit* your ostensibly 'fit for everyone' working pattern. (I didn't try it because I have actual work to do and cannot spend every day or every weekend trying out the latest desktop of the week. The criticisms of people for not trying desktops with fixes committed only three weeks ago and not even in rawhide yet are hilarious from my perspective. Do you think these people have nothing else to do?)

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Posted Mar 16, 2011 17:54 UTC (Wed) by me@jasonclinton.com (subscriber, #52701) [Link] (3 responses)

My point is that you have nothing to add to this conversation being that you are not informed.

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Posted Mar 17, 2011 23:01 UTC (Thu) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474) [Link]

Specifically it's not going to work for Nix for the same reason it doesn't work for me .. lack of focus-follows-mouse.

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Posted Mar 18, 2011 10:45 UTC (Fri) by nyfle (guest, #72967) [Link]

For what it's probably not worth, unlike nix, I am a Gnome user with a workflow that is almost 1:1 with his, and I have tried doing day-to-day things with it for roughly half a day. And what can I say, it looks nice (shiny things are always a plus), but my productivity was severely reduced because of the necessary keyboard-mouse-keyboard dance. I'm sure non-power users will love it - but what about the rest of us?

I do wonder why opinions/insights from non-Gnome users are being, in my opinion, so arrogantly shot down. UIX feedback is always good, no? And this is a general observation by the way, not necessarily aimed at you personally. I've seen quite a bit of "Don't like it? Sod off, then." attitude over the past few weeks...

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Posted Mar 24, 2011 13:37 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]

>My point is that you have nothing to add to this conversation being that you are not informed.

And you and I have nothing better to add than randomly trolling people, but that hasn't shut us up.