GNOME 3.2 released

Posted Oct 1, 2011 15:29 UTC (Sat) by ean5533 (guest, #69480)
In reply to: GNOME 3.2 released by bronson
Parent article: GNOME 3.2 released

Add me to the list of people that had no trouble using dual monitors in GNOME Shell. Of the three things you listed, two of them are *bugs*, not intentional feature removals. So submit some bug reports.

As for focus-follows-mouse, I have no opinion on the matter because I don't use it. I don't know the usage statistics of FFM, but my instinct tells me that it's rarely a rarely used option (I have no data and will fully accept someone disproving me), which would explain why they've dropped support for it.

But regardless, the responsibility to research feature changes lies with you. The rest of the world is not obligated to enumerate every difference between their new default setup and your current one. It's not as though you were forced to do an upgrade -- you had as much time as you needed to read the numerous reviews and watch videos and read announcements. You could have even loaded F15 into a VM to test it out ahead of time.

Following this silly Mustang analogy: you willingly brought your car to the dealer for an upgrade which you knew nothing about. You didn't try taking an upgraded model for a test drive, nor did you even look at an example of what the upgraded model looked like. You just blindly did the upgrade. So why is this the dealer's fault?

GNOME 3.2 released

Posted Oct 1, 2011 16:07 UTC (Sat) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] (2 responses)

> you willingly brought your car to the dealer for an upgrade which you knew nothing about. ... You just blindly did the upgrade. So why is this the dealer's fault?

Because I've bring my car in for this maintenance every six months without trouble. The dealer knew that this one was going to be brutal but didn't say anything ahead of time and had no plans for expected problems.

You can't seriously be suggesting end-users should bench-test every new release in a VM? What a waste of time that would be! The day distros demonstrate this much contempt for their users is the day I'll reluctantly buy a Mac.

According to the Gnome team, focus-follows-mouse wasn't dropped. The release notes mention fixes in 3.2.

GNOME 3.2 released

Posted Oct 1, 2011 17:41 UTC (Sat) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] (1 responses)

On re-reading, I realize my post is too one-sided. Just wanted to make it clear that I'm not saying that Gnome or Fedora have all blame here, just some of it. Next time, when presented by a huge upgrade like this, I hope they spend some time to make the transition go smoother. Flag days will always suck.

Fallback mode was good but seems to have suffered a lot of the same driver problems as Gnome 3.

GNOME 3.2 released

Posted Oct 1, 2011 18:21 UTC (Sat) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

Fallback mode uses exactly the same driver paths as Gnome 2 did.