On 25/12/17 01:44, Anders Andersson wrote:
If you can pull yourself from a Windows 95-era start menu and
always-visible panels, try the natural and more modern and updated
successor: Gnome 3. Really.
I found this "modern and updated" interface to have poor usability. It
felt to me like an attempt to push the Android UI, optimised for tiny
touch screens, on to the desktop.
I like always-visible panels on my desktop, including a pager, and
Gnome 2 and XFCE give them to me, in multiple highly-configurable
instances, with plugins. I found that Gnome 3 configuration was quite
limited and required me to hack JavaScript at the system level. It has
been a while since I tried a pure Gnome 3 and it might have improved.
I saw a Windows 10 machine a few days ago and it had an always-visible
panel with something that seemed to work just like the like the start
menu. Are Windows 10 desktops configured to have this by default? It
might be that Microsoft are returning to the successful desktop
interface design of previous generations. Perhaps Gnome 4 will as well?
I've never found the claims of Xfce being lightweight to hold up under
scrutiny. It's often more sluggish than Gnome 3 on the clients I've
compared.
Does Gnome 3 work over VNC yet? I had such problems with Unity, but
XFCE just worked.
Kind regards,