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GNOME and input method integration

GNOME and input method integration

Posted Jun 27, 2012 13:45 UTC (Wed) by drag (guest, #31333)
In reply to: GNOME and input method integration by russell
Parent article: GNOME and input method integration

That's a odd statement considering how modern Gnome is more flexible and customizable then Gnome 2 was.


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GNOME and input method integration

Posted Jun 28, 2012 17:59 UTC (Thu) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] (2 responses)

My experience is exactly the opposite. In GNOME 2, I could edit the menu with alacarte. In GNOME 3, it's not working. There is an effort to port alacarte to GNOME 3. But as it stands now, all new items go the the Other menu, and the top-level menu cannot be edited at all. GNOME 3 still didn't approach the flexibility of Windows 95 in that respect.

GNOME and input method integration

Posted Jul 5, 2012 8:04 UTC (Thu) by kigurai (guest, #85475) [Link] (1 responses)

Menu? Why are you using a menu?
I find launching stuff in Gnome 3 is much faster as I simply type the first characters of whast i want to launch instead of trying to navigate tiny menus.

GNOME and input method integration

Posted Jul 9, 2012 14:58 UTC (Mon) by ThinkRob (guest, #64513) [Link]

> Menu? Why are you using a menu?

You know... that right there is representative of many, many users experience with GNOME 3.x and (more importantly) the community backing it.

A user complains about a workflow regression and the very first response is "what are you doing that for?"

Now in general that's a fine response in some cases. I've definitely said something like that to users of software that I've worked on. But I don't develop general purpose desktop software, and when the feature in question is something that's been part of the desktop computing experience for decades, and when the regression occurred for no perceptible reason other than "we don't care about people doing $FOO this way anymore", there are serious problems (IMHO.)

GNOME and input method integration

Posted Jun 29, 2012 20:51 UTC (Fri) by krakensden (subscriber, #72039) [Link]

Allowing people to inject arbitrary Javascript into the shell and then punting all user complaints citing that fact is not a valid response. If someone defended the usability of XMonad with "well, you can reprogram it" you would rightly bollock them right out. But somehow with Gnome it's different.


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