[NCLUG] Fedora 17 Gnome 3

[Ben West]

I'm still open to doing this.  Let me know if you're interested in setting
up a time to do this


On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Ben West <mrgenixus at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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