[NCLUG] Fedora 17 Gnome 3

[Maxwell Spangler]

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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