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Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue

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On 25/12/17 01:44, Anders Andersson wrote:
> If you can pull yourself from a Windows 95-era start menu and
> always-visible panels, try the natural and more modern and updated
> successor: Gnome 3. Really.

I found this "modern and updated" interface to have poor usability. It 
felt to me like an attempt to push the Android UI, optimised for tiny 
touch screens, on to the desktop.

I like always-visible panels on my desktop, including a pager, and Gnome 
2 and XFCE give them to me, in multiple highly-configurable instances, 
with plugins. I found that Gnome 3 configuration was quite limited and 
required me to hack JavaScript at the system level. It has been a while 
since I tried a pure Gnome 3 and it might have improved.

I saw a Windows 10 machine a few days ago and it had an always-visible 
panel with something that seemed to work just like the like the start 
menu. Are Windows 10 desktops configured to have this by default? It 
might be that Microsoft are returning to the successful desktop 
interface design of previous generations. Perhaps Gnome 4 will as well?

> I've never found the claims of Xfce being lightweight to hold up under
> scrutiny. It's often more sluggish than Gnome 3 on the clients I've
> compared.

Does Gnome 3 work over VNC yet? I had such problems with Unity, but XFCE 
just worked.

Kind regards,

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/>
New Zealand

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HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue Jerome BENOIT <sphericaltriangle@rezozer.net> - 2017-12-24 11:50 +0100
  Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> - 2017-12-24 13:50 +0100
    Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-12-27 23:50 +0100
      Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2018-01-14 04:10 +0100
        Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2018-01-14 06:10 +0100
  Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-12-24 21:10 +0100
    Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue Jerome BENOIT <sphericaltriangle@rezozer.net> - 2017-12-25 06:50 +0100
  Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-12-25 07:10 +0100

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