Comments on: Testing the Gnome 2.30 Release Candidate

By: Bongo Bong

Bongo Bong — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:37:12 +0000

Anything that removes users from the ability to see files and directories WILL lead to them losing data. Been there, seen that. it’s a computer. It has a file system. learn it (it’s simple)

Plus *I* decide where things live on my system – not some Joe Random developer in GNOME-land.

Ho hum, looks like GNOME are determined to reimplement OSX… badly.

By: Reader

Reader — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:20:29 +0000

: If this works out and Gnome 3 changes how desktop environments are designed and used, how many of the people that are complaining here are going to begin to flame WinDoze and OSX forums saying “That’s not innovation…..We’ve had it in Linux for years…I knew it was a good thing since Gnome 3.0!!!!”

No.

By: Reader

Reader — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:19:37 +0000

No.

By: Belligerance

Belligerance — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:49:21 +0000

If I told people 40 years ago that I wanted to make a machine to send hand written notes instantly over telephone cables, I would have been told that I was crazy and that it was useless……

If you are not able to open your mind to innovation, then don’t upgrade….

People will whine and complain at first, developers will begin to tweak and hack and new ideas will emerge.

I honestly welcome a change to how things are done. We building upon (basically) the same concept ever since DOS Shell. Things have gotten much better since then but the idea is pretty much the same…

If this works out and Gnome 3 changes how desktop environments are designed and used, how many of the people that are complaining here are going to begin to flame WinDoze and OSX forums saying “That’s not innovation…..We’ve had it in Linux for years…I knew it was a good thing since Gnome 3.0!!!!”

Generally, very few people support change and big change is a big risk but the rewards can be huge! So, even if Gnome 3.0 fails, I applaud the development team for thinking outside the box and having the courage to push forward in new directions!

By: redkiwi

redkiwi — Wed, 05 May 2010 08:49:29 +0000

gnome-shell is so cool
i love the simple handling and good looking design.

many thanks to all the programmers !!!

By: Yaztolyern

Yaztolyern — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 05:25:27 +0000

Gnome is going to commit suicide. Why not fix the issues with the panel. This “Menu” bit could have been done as a panel applet. This is truly pathetic that they would drop something as well thought-out and customizable for the rigid and un-customizable Gnome Shell. I don’t get it. I was drawn to Gnome and Linux in general BECAUSE of the customizability. I hope they loose +75% of their user fanbase.

By: Foolz

Foolz — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 06:49:56 +0000

HaHa GNOME Shell is annoying. Imagining the DE is like an actual Office where you are the one in charge. If you need to turn on your CD player, you need to go to upper stair, look over the entire office, all the draw will open, than now you can finally open your CD player. Then you now can finally go back down and enjoy your music. If you want to turn on your computer, you need to do the same thing. Find a document? Same things. Doesn’t matter what you trying to do, you need to go to upper and over look everything you have in your office before you can do what you want. And for everything you do. You have an option to add or delete a Desk in your office. And you can add up to 1073 Desk in your office, and possibly more. What is the point of that? Most people can barely use more than 2 Desktops. If you are like me who did many many things at a time, you might need to up four, but that rarely happen. In other word, they are making something that is more like a good option to have into a huge deal, and make everything take twice of the time to get done. Not to mention it is graphically annoying. Imagine you are watching TV and every button you pass such as change channel or change volume, it zooms in and out. and what’s up with that dead center clock? It seem like someone who have no graphic design experience would do. It really makes no sense or serve any purpose.

Yes, you can call Shell a good idea. And most people see animated graphic in computer they will think it is cool. Just like my mom, think all the photograph that has flower beautiful, don’t matter how bad the focus, composition or colors are. I Think the philosophy behind shell is great, but the execution is doing something completely opposite

By: 2noob2banoob

2noob2banoob — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:29:39 +0000

What will get lost in the Gnome Shell is customizability (can’t modify the panel layout anymore) and direct access to the windowlist. The latter can be solved pretty easily by using a dock.
The customizability issue will not be solvable except by modifying and compiling the sourcecode yourself. The Gnome team seems to find a seamless desktop experience more important than a customizable one, leaving us with what desktop layout would be best for the average user.
Opposing this, the Gnome Shell provides some very nice stuff, I especially love their new implementation of the workspace idea. The activities menu provides all of the features I’ve gotten used to with MintMenu. One disturbing detail, however, is submenus responding to mouseclicks rather than mouseover events. But I’m sure they’re gonna fix that.

By: Health Top Story

Health Top Story — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:29:30 +0000

I read this article from yesterday and very nice. I was search tutorial about gnome and I found here, great

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By: Pedro

Pedro — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:17:28 +0000

I like to know where my files are stored. So, after installing Linux I disable any program that try to index files.

By: Dante

Dante — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:16:43 +0000

I have never had a need for multiple desktops. Never.

And yet, GNOME Shell seems to take them as part of it’s design philosophy….

I hope it’s creators are proud. But I also hope they know there is a substantional portion of the user base like me, who find having to ‘zoom out’ just to get to the system controls is…worrying….