[NCLUG] Fedora 17 Gnome 3

[Ben West]

I'm at Jims and plan to be at momo lomo, If anyone is interested in
chatting about gnome3 etc
On Nov 24, 2012 8:57 PM, "Maxwell Spangler" <maxlists at maxwellspangler.com>
wrote:

> Glad to see I'm not the only one thrilled with Gnome 3.  I love it for
> the same exact reasons and find it's far superior to Gnome 2.
>
> No looking back here, not one bit.
>
> On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 17:30 -0700, Michael Milligan wrote:
>
> > On 11/20/2012 08:12 AM, Mike Loseke wrote:
> > > Still happily using Gnome3 here. My workflow includes xterms, browsers
> and
> > > the ability to easily spread and organize these over a dynamic set of
> > > workspaces.  I'm glad that there's less desktop manager to get in the
> way.
> > > The complete lack of any kind of dock (I disable the dash) or
> hierarchical
> > > menuing system (also disabled) is a huge plus for me.
> > This is the main attraction for me in Gnome Shell is the minimalist
> > desktop.  I absolutely love the "press Windows key, type first few chars
> > of app name, hit return to launch it".  For a coder/dev, so much faster
> > than mousing to (even a one-level) menu.  And similarly, "press Windows
> > key and mouse click in app to switch to", which is really smooth with
> > the Native Window placement extension. and it also gives you access to
> > the multiple workspaces.  The workflow is so clean and fast.  There's
> > even a sort-of tile feature.
> >
> > I honestly don't miss apps on my desktop or terminals in drawers.  I
> > have all my terminals set with their own .desktop files with the name of
> > the system they ssh to, so all i have to do is type the system name and
> > launch it.  Faster, simpler.
> >
> > But the downsides right now keep driving me to look elsewhere.  1)
> > bloated memory use and leaks that can't seem to be fixed, 2) unstable
> > extensions API (actually, there really isn't an API), i.e., upgrade
> > gnome-shell and all your extensions will almost certainly break, 3) just
> > not very stable, likes to crash at critical moments, 4) hard to find
> > useful error messages, and 5) my BIGGEST BUGGABOO focus-follows-mouse
> > (a.k.a. "sloppy" mouse setting via gsettings) does not stick, it will
> > turn off after some combination of window open/close.  No rhyme or
> > reason that I've found.
> >
> > So, YMMV.
> >
> > Cinnamon keeps drawing my attention because its a quite a bit more
> > stable but it's based on Gnome3 core so has the memory bloat/leak
> problem.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mike
> >
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