[Klug-general] Gnome3

[George Prowse]

On 07/04/2011 09:42, David Halliday wrote:
> I still think that people should give the new Gnome shell a go, try and
> use it for something productive to see how they get on with it. I tried
> it out briefly and I did like some of the changes and thought there were
> some good ideas in it.
>
> I do like the new ideas (Innovation is good even if the new ideas
> aren't immediately beneficial). It's worth trying it out just to see
> what parts of it ARE good/interesting as with anything technical,
> understanding something that you ultimately decide to be a bad way of
> working is still getting a good understanding of what (in your opinion)
> is a bad way of working and why it isn't appropriate to your future
> projects.
>
> I gave it a try, it is very different especially in comparison to those
> people who are evilwm users. Some things of it I liked, the only feature
> that put me off was a privacy issue of tiling the windows to select
> which one to switch to. While this is very useful, not always good when
> working on something and your significant other comes over and asks you
> to look something up and you have just minimised the window containing
> their birthday present.
>
As someone who enjoys gnome I was looking forward to Gnome 3. I was 
expecting a great evolution of Gnome 2 but I think they may have taken 
it too far.

Here is a better view and review: 
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2011/04/ars-reviews-gnome-30-a-shiny-new-ornament-for-your-linux-lawn.ars