GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

[Martin Langhoff]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Domingo Becker <domingobecker at gmail.com> wrote:
> The shortest way is by using keyboard, as Rahul says:
>
> 1. Press the key between Ctrl and Alt.
> 2. Type in what you search, at least the first letters. After that,
> some icons are shown and you may use up and down arrow keys to select.
> 3. After selecting the application you want, press Enter, and that's it.

Agreed - it is a bit odd, but I am getting used to it, and as your
users report, it's fast and practical. And I have a use for the damn
'windows' key! (Alt-F2 is the alternative for un-branded keyboards).

And ctrl-tab + ctrl-~ is an excellent timesaver. Got used to it on the
mac, and I think KDE had it but if Gnome had it I never found it.

It's a new UI -- we all have things we're used to so it is easy to
focus on a change you dislike. But overall, if you try to play the
game it proposes it is good.

It does have issues though

 - bring back poweroff ;-)

 - applications browsing can be improved -- the scrollbar is too thin
and subtle, icons miss tooltips...

 - various oddities with dual-head setup vs...
   - the hot-corner - sometimes it's between your monitors!
   - the hot-topbar - vertically "stacked" monitors are unusable

my 2c



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