Rawhide gets GNOME Shell for all display types [LWN.net]

Rawhide gets GNOME Shell for all display types

Posted Nov 8, 2011 11:18 UTC (Tue) by slashdot (guest, #22014)
In reply to: Rawhide gets GNOME Shell for all display types by nye
Parent article: Rawhide gets GNOME Shell for all display types

As far as I can tell from videos/screenshots, Windows 8 still has the same taskbar that Windows 7 has.

The only difference seems to be that the Start button brings up a fullscreen UI instead of a popup menu.

And indeed that UI seems quite dubious, but since it looks rather primitive and it's not a released product, I guess it's premature to draw any conclusion.

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Rawhide gets GNOME Shell for all display types

Posted Nov 8, 2011 14:11 UTC (Tue) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]

There's a lot more to it than that. Not only is the new Start screen absolutely awful, but large bits of important functionality have been made undiscoverable. I managed to figure out how to *log in* within a minute or two, but my gf and I spent about half an hour working out how to shut down.

The new control panel seems designed to make the computer as obnoxious to use as possible, etc...

When I tried using it I assumed that what I was looking at was a platform demo, for tesing out underlying operation, platform APIs, etc, with a crappy UI bolted on just as a demo of how to use some of the new APIs. Apparently though that's actually the direction they want to head in for the real thing.