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On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:00:40 -0400, B1ll Gat3s wrote:

> On 14/10/2011 9:21 AM, Tom Anderson wrote:
>> It's utterly vile. We got GNOME 3 with Fedora 15, and switched over to
>> XFCE after about five minutes.
>>
>> XFCE is quite a step down from GNOME 2, but it's miles better than
>> GNOME 3. I am counting my blessings that i recently bought a Mac!
> 
> What is wrong with GNOME 3? 
>
Try it: you'll soon see. 

Here's an example of half-baked thinking. I quite like the idea of being 
able to start apps and switch between them them without needing to touch 
the mouse. The first part works OK: [Windows]evo[newline][Windows] puts 
me in Evolution provided that there's only one Evolution window open. 
though its *much* slower than clicking the appropriate button in the G2 
virtual screen switcher, *but* its broken if several windows are open for 
the application you want to select because there are no keystrokes 
defined that select or tab round the several windows shown on the 
Activity page. Yes, you can hit [Windows] and get back to the screen 
holding all these windows, but that's no use if the window you want is 
hidden entirely under another on the virtual screen. The only way to get 
to it is the hit [Windows] and double click the window you want.

As I said: not properly thought out.

But the worst bit is that as well as clicking 'Activities' in the top 
left corner to get to the activity page, where you select the app you 
want to run or give focus to by typing the first few letters of its name 
or clicking an icon of image of a window, you can also get there by 
gesturing at the top left of the screen with the mouse. All well and 
good, but for two points:

- very many apps (e.g. Gedit, Nautilus) open by default in the top left
  of the screen *and* they all open smack on top of each other. There
  seems to be no way to change this default position or even to make
  them cascade a la Windows.   

- as you do other things this sensitive area tends to grow as time
  passes and to overlap application windows including the one that
  has focus. It gets bloody big too - something like a quarter circle
  with its centroid in the top left corned and a raduis of half the
  screen height.

The upshot of this that after typing for a bit, if you go to click on 
'File' or 'Edit' and the application window is even closeish to the top 
left corner, you find yourself dumped unceremoniously into the Activity 
page. This is extremely irritating. If you're left handed (I am) and swat 
to mouse to one side to get its cursor away from where you're typing, 
very frequently it enters this magic area and again you end up dumped 
into the Activity page.

Try it: you'll soon see what a pigs ear the Gnome UI has become.

> And if you prefer GNOME 2 to both GNOME 3 and XFCE, why not just
> use GNOME 2?

Because G2 been removed from the latest Ubuntu release and AFAIK the same 
will happen with the release of Fedora 16.


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                Re: Ubunto B1ll Gat3s <wm.g4t3s@m1cr0s0f7.c0m> - 2011-10-15 15:45 -0400
                Re: Ubunto Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-10-16 00:17 +0000
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  Re: Ubunto Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-10-14 14:20 +0100
    Re: Ubunto Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-10-15 13:04 -0700
      Re: Ubunto Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-10-16 01:03 +0000
        Re: Ubunto Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-10-17 00:31 +0100
          Re: Ubunto Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-10-17 00:29 +0000
            Re: Ubunto Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-10-16 22:03 -0400
              Re: Ubunto Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-10-17 15:08 +0100
              Re: Ubunto Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-10-17 21:29 +0000
            Re: Ubunto Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-10-17 16:47 +0100
          Re: Ubunto B1ll Gat3s <wm.g4t3s@m1cr0s0f7.c0m> - 2011-10-16 20:55 -0400
            Re: Ubunto Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-10-17 21:37 +0000
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