[Klug-general] Gnome3

[George Prowse]

On 10/04/2011 15:18, James Morris wrote:
> On 7 April 2011 12:11, George Prowse<george.prowse at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> 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
>
> I read the review the other day. Interesting. There were several
> things mentioned which told me I wouldn't enjoy using it. The comments
> seem obviously mostly made by people not using Linux, or by people who
> don't really understand that many elements of Linux are made by people
> voluntarily and not by paid software developers.
>
> Anyway, I'm going to try Gnome3 once I've found the path to doing so
> in Arch Linux.
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_3#Introduction
>
> With regard to some of the criticism mentioned in the review and its
> comments posted above, it *might* be a matter of enabling hidden
> features:
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_3#Enabling_hidden_features
>
> Also something to remember is this is the first release of Gnome 3, it
> will need some time to evolve.
>
> But firstly, I'm installing KDE4.6 to see how that;s evolved since the
> last time I tried it.
>
> Cheers,
> James.

By a full release it should be mature, otherwise you are releasing 
poorly tested software. Take KDE4 for example, that was barely useable 
until 4.4, KDE owe me about 2 weeks in compile times using that rubbish :(