Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

[drago01]

On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>  * Gnome 3 is going the I-know-better-then-you-what's-good-for-you
>>>    way.
>>
>> Sure by giving you an extension system that allows you to do whatever
>> you want with the desktop ....
>>
>
> Is anyone doing that?

https://extensions.gnome.org/ ... seems so ;)

>>
>>>  * We think Gnome 3 is doing similar type of mistake as Windows 8.
>>
>> GNOME3 has nothing to do with windows 8 other than both work better on
>> touch devices then previous releases .... supporting new hardware
>> isn't really a bad thing imo.
>
> And neither much contemplated that the interface that's appropriate
> for a mobile phone is not appropriate for a desktop.

GNOME 3 is not a mobile phone interface. Repeating that multiple times
does not make it true.

>  I still use Gnome
> 3, despite the many helpful suggestions to change. I don't find it
> quite as annoying as Windows 8 (where it's sometimes hard even to know
> how to close down an app), but I do find that:
> 1. I no longer use workspaces to manage different tasks unless there
> are lots of windows and then I sometimes overflow onto 2. This is
> because they're less useful as you now can't switch without going to
> the activities view and they aren't segregated well.

You have a keyboard Crtl-Alt-<up/down> works fine (Odd on a "mobile
phone interface" but you can do a lot of things with the keyboard).

And now I think this thread is going nowhere lets stop here.