Fedora 15 / Gnome 3 gotchas

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 11:05 +0100, Camilo Mesias wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I made some noises on IRC about people upgrading to F15 (like myself)
> who would all come across the same surprises and would have to find a
> way to work around them. I suggested it might help to publish
> something like release notes but more user oriented, to help to ease
> the pain (and to defuse the many questions that will undoubtedly find
> their way to the various support forums). At the time no-one seemed to
> pick up on the idea.
> 
> I wrote a blog post about it, maybe not the best way to help Fedora
> users so feel free to take the idea and the content and repackage it
> as appropriate.
> 
> http://littlethorpe.net/wordpress/?p=334 "Fedora 15 Gnome 3 gotchas"
> 
> If nothing else maybe I have included the right words so that users
> can Google for 'what the heck happened to my minimise button' or
> whatever and find some help.

Gnome 3 is a usability disaster. It added some useful things, yes,
but it also REMOVED some useful things - what a hell!?
Since when is that a valid development practice?
Do we hate our users or what?

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vda