On 11/08/2011 12:45 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 09:31 +1100, Bojan Smojver wrote:
I think what will most likely happen is that someone out there will come up with an extension to nuke the Activities button and replace it with Applications button. And that will be the end of that discussion.
There's been one for months, and yet 'the end of that discussion' does not appear to have come, and not all Shell users use it.
I also found the recent Linux Mint approach sensible. http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1851 They're getting lots of unity defectors. To me it seems like low hanging fruit to install some of these extensions + gnome-tweak-tool on Fedora and integrate these options into the settings panel (even as an "extra-settings" item that starts gnome-tweak-tool).
I realize that options are often a sign of incomplete software, but with direct user interaction, options can be a necessary evil to deal with people's tastes and expectations.
cheers, Pádraig.