Re: GNOME3 Ugh! What specifically didn't work.
On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:10:54 +0100
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
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> From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>
> To: Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: GNOME3 Ugh! What specifically didn't work.
> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:48:26 +0100
>
> On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 10:59 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> > On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:43:27 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> >
> > (...)
> >
> > > There's no way to minimize a window.
> >
> > Yes, you can minimize a window by:
> >
> > - Pressing the minimize button located at the right corner of the window
> > - Right-click on the window title and pres "Minimize"
> >
> > > I can slide my browser off to the side when I don't want to look at it,
> > > but it insists in covering half my screen anyway.
> >
> > That's the default, yes. It's a feature documented here:
> >
> > https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet
> >
> > "By dragging windows to the left and right edges of the screen you can
> > tile them side by side."
> >
> > > There's no task bar.
> >
> > There is, well, there are two, the new Dash and Activities.
> >
> > > No convenient place I can click to instantly switch to another window.
> >
> > Activities?
> >
> > > How am I supposed to be efficient with this thing?
> >
> > There is still the fallback mode.
> >
> > Greetings,
>
> Everything Camaleón wrote is true, e.g. for the default Windows just the
> buttons are missing, the right-click still is ok, e.g. using
> "Activities" is the way to break every sane workflow for serious usage,
> but OTOH it's a game for all those people who don't use the computer as
> a tool, but as a toy.
>
> I'm using fallback mode and I'm still able to restore GNOME 2 ;).
>
> The most serious issue is, that some professional FLOSS apps were
> written for GNOME 2, with GNOME 3 we fall back to an amateur OS
> regarding to some apps.
>
> - Ralf
>
>
>
The extensions, I guess everyone thinks I'm winging about, allow you to have the static
drop down menus, and it allows the windows pane on the panel at the bottom just like gnome-shell 2.
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Best wishes / 73
Richard Bown
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