gnome3 - the funny side

John Aldrich jmaldrich at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 26 13:48:08 UTC 2011


On Mon September 26 2011, Ian Malone wrote:
> On the basis that you need to laugh every so often.
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/AppletsTransition:
> 
> Desktop design copouts
> 
> Then there are applets that are about making it marginally faster to
> do things that should be obvious and fast to do without an applet to
> do them. If these are useful, we've misdesigned.
> 
>     Connect to a Server...
>     Disk Mounter
>     Lock Screen
>     Log Out...
>     Run Application...
>     Search for Files...
>     Shutdown..
>
Seriously... Disk Mounter, log out, run application, lock screen, command-
line. Those are not "core" apps???? Sheesh!


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