[Wylug-discuss] Gnome 3 Review

[Christopher McLean]

I agree with Simon fully, except for this bit:

| -----Original Message-----
| Sent: 21 March 2012 15:17
| Subject: Re: [Wylug-discuss] Gnome 3 Review
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| I think the Gnome 3, Unity and windows 8 critics are being somewhat
| short sighted. Keyboard users, such as myself, are soon going to find
| themselves as a minority amongst computer users. Perhaps we are
| already. FOSS user interfaces do their development in full public
| view, they're not going to get right first time. If they don't make
| any changes, they'll soon find themselves irrelevant. There may well
| be more touch based phones in use today than there are keyboard driven
| computers.
...

I'm a keyboard user, and I like gnome/unity; they make it ever _easier_ to navigate with a keyboard. Grab yourself a keyboard cheatsheet, learn them, and you'll barely be touching your mouse. For me, <ctl><alt><numpad> window resize/tile, <alt><tab/`> window/group pick and the search/run using the windows key means I hardly ever touch a mouse when using a GUI.

Change is always scary, but once you are used to it, you notice it can be better

Chris