Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

[Ian Malone]

On 9 February 2013 12:25, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 ;)

Is not very useful. 19 pages of unorganised apps. It's not even
immediately obvious how to install one (it is not intuitive to me that
a slider on a web page should make a change to my desktop).

>
>>>
>>>>  * 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 didn't. I implied it would be more suitable as a mobile phone interface.

>>  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).
>

Not my point. My point is that everything is made a little harder,
pushed a little further away, in ways that make more efficient working
patterns harder.

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

In the end, more than any usability quibbles, the best reason to give
up on a project is when it refuses to listen to its end users.

-- 
imalone
http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk