Jansson: On the Graying of GNOME

Posted Dec 17, 2020 19:11 UTC (Thu) by mcatanzaro (subscriber, #93033)
In reply to: Jansson: On the Graying of GNOME by Cyberax
Parent article: Jansson: On the Graying of GNOME

> The fact is, GNOME essentially crippled the most used devices (keyboard/touchpad/mouse) in favor of non-existent tablets.

This is a strange statement. Keyboard, touchpad, and mouse all work fine in GNOME. If they didn't, nobody would be using GNOME today.

Jansson: On the Graying of GNOME

Posted Dec 17, 2020 19:47 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (2 responses)

> This is a strange statement. Keyboard, touchpad, and mouse all work fine in GNOME.
Some functionality that works best with classic input devices was damaged in favor of touch-based interfaces.

> nobody would be using GNOME today.
Which is a good approximation of the reality.

Jansson: On the Graying of GNOME

Posted Dec 18, 2020 0:18 UTC (Fri) by adam820 (subscriber, #101353) [Link] (1 responses)

>> Some functionality that works best with classic input devices was damaged in favor of touch-based interfaces.
Such as? I daily-drive a 2-in-1 that works clean for most things in either mode, except for obvious standouts where one or the other make the most sense.

>> Which is a good approximation of the reality.
...your reality, maybe? I have several machines that run GNOME, and my Linux-using friends/co-workers also all use GNOME. I think you're discounting the whole enterprise Linux market.

It feels like all the stuff surrounding the rough edges of the early GNOME 3.x days nearly a decade ago are still informing your opinion (which is fair, you're free to do so, I suppose).

Jansson: On the Graying of GNOME

Posted Dec 18, 2020 1:48 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

I haven't been using GNOME for the last 8 years or so. The things that actually drove me away were:
- Missing right-click menus.
- "Hot corners" that couldn't be disabled.
- No bottom/top panels like in GNOME2.
- Broken menus in some apps (Eclipse).

I remember spending several days with gnome-tweak-tool, before giving up and moving to xfce.