Stop and look around [LWN.net]

Stop and look around

Posted Nov 22, 2011 4:24 UTC (Tue) by Zizzle (guest, #67739)
In reply to: Stop and look around by man_ls
Parent article: Rawhide gets GNOME Shell for all display types

You are forgetting that the rationale of the current set of GNOMEs is that the current and previous users don't actually matter.

They are crufty, grumpy old beards. Kernel hacker types.

GNOME doesn't want those users. They want to configure silly things like the font size on their desktop. They think that launching an application should take a single click.

With the new Gnome shell interface millions of new users will suddenly be attracted to GNOME and Linux. It's market share will explode as a result of all the locked-down 3D goodness.

From my point of view I think it is funny. Those that want those things are already on OS X. GNOME will wither and die.

The interesting part is what takes it's place. XFCE?

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Stop and look around

Posted Nov 22, 2011 17:27 UTC (Tue) by juliank (guest, #45896) [Link] (2 responses)

> They think that launching an application should take a single click.

That's possible in GNOME 3, in GNOME 2 you needed at least two clicks or three + n keypressed. In GNOME3, you need one click for favourites, two for others, and zero clicks and 1 + n keypresses if you want keyboard only.

Stop and look around

Posted Nov 23, 2011 18:50 UTC (Wed) by Zizzle (guest, #67739) [Link] (1 responses)

What?

In GNOME 2 I can put as many launchers in my panel as I like. And I don't need to wait for some stupid overlay to animate onto the screen.

And keyboard shortcuts exist in GNOME 2, so don't pretend GNOME 3 is a win there.

Stop and look around

Posted Nov 23, 2011 19:19 UTC (Wed) by juliank (guest, #45896) [Link]

> In GNOME 2 I can put as many launchers in my panel as I like.

Yeah, I forgot those, I didn't really use those.

> And I don't need to wait for some stupid
> overlay to animate onto the screen.

Wait? It's there almost immediately, basically as soon as the key is released.

> And keyboard shortcuts exist in GNOME 2,
> so don't pretend GNOME 3 is a win there.

Same in GNOME 3.