GNOME != Fedora

Posted Nov 4, 2011 16:21 UTC (Fri) by drag (guest, #31333)
In reply to: GNOME != Fedora by dowdle
Parent article: Rawhide gets GNOME Shell for all display types

I see the Gnome-3 shell much more of a cross between the the Black Box family of window managers with OS X.

Visually, while in application mode, it looks and behaves very closely like a BB-style window manager; No icons, no task manager to connect to.

The biggest difference between the functionality of Gnome Shell and BlackBox/FuseBox/OpenBox is that the background is inert.

Instead of creating a context to interact with on the background like the BB systems support (scroll on background to switch desktops + click to access menus) it creates a modal 'activities' mode.

Thus it seems to me much more actually along the Linux tradition of having minimal desktops rather then either a Tablet or WIMP-style interface.