[Design-team] First evaluations after testing Anaconda and Gnome installations F19 TC3

[Máirín Duffy]

Hi Leslie,

Feedback about the GNOME desktop in Fedora is not appropriate to send to
the Fedora design team as we have no control over it.

Rather, the list you'll want to send your feedback to is the fedora
desktop list.

~m

On 04/04/2013 02:11 AM, Leslie S Satenstein wrote:
> I thought you may be interested in what I encountered.
> 
> In my evaluation, I got more negative feelings about Gnome than the 3.6
> version. With 3.6 version, for any program not within the favourites
> bar, it requires 4 mouse clicks to launch.
> 
> With Fedora 19, Gnome 4.x it takes 7 mouse clicks.  By the way, with
> Cinnamon, it is 1 mouse click to open the menu, then slide to the
> appropriate application and click a second time. Done.
> There is a favourites bar as well on the side, and a second favourites
> bar on the bottom panel.
> 
> For a user of the system. Office, browse, email, some installed packages
> and games, Gnome 4.x is very heavy on using the left mouse button. I
> ended up with tendonitus and had to quit using Gnome, or suffer major
> tendon damage (repetitive action damage).  It  is I that had the problem
> and I cannot say that others will have experienced similar problems.
> 
> I do have questions about Gnome 4.  What is the difference between
> Favourites bar contents and Frequent items.  If items are used
> frequently, they should replace the items in the favourites bar.
> Frenquent items list is maintained dynamically, and often incorrectly,
> and the other is a static placement.  Did anyone notice that if an item
> is in Frequent side of the collection, it is no longer in the All side
> of the collection.
> 
> My  major grype with Gnome Desktop is the [:::] (9 sided die) launcher. 
> Why is it not removed from the favourites bar and placed next to
> Activities?  Putting it there would save two clicks on the mouse.  With
> a little logic, it may even be possible to replace Activities by this
> [:::] launcher.
> 
> If we look at the Linux users in the world,  the majority of the
> population writes from left to right. (Arabic, Hebrew, and a few other
> languages are right to left). Therefore it made better sense to have the
> favourites bar and the workspace selection on the right side of the
> desktop presentation.  Why do we have to slide from extreme top left to
> extreme right to select an alternate workspace.
> Ergonomical design and how people use the computer to generate output
> would indicate that there is much to do to improve Gnome.
> 
> I am trying to be positive about identifying and fixing items that cause
> Linux users to shy away from Gnome.
> 
> Regards
> *
>  Leslie
> *
> *Mr. Leslie Satenstein
> *50 years in Information Technology and going strong.
> Yesterday was a good day, today is a better day,
> and tomorrow will be even better.
> mailto:lsatenstein at yahoo.com
> alternative: leslie.satenstein at gmail.com
> *SENT FROM MY OPEN SOURCE LINUX SYSTEM.*
> 
> 
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