F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Sat, 2011-11-05 at 13:40 +0000, Bojan Smojver wrote:
> w <at> googlemail.com> 
> writes:
> 
> > Yet look at all the happy users of 
> default Gnome 3!
> > I am one of them and I went directly 
> from the tilling-WM Xmonad to gnome
> > 3! So you can't say it's only for 
> absolute noobs :). I installed it and
> > it took about a week to get used to it 
> so that I stopped thinking "why
> > the heck did they do it" but instead 
> started to understand the new
> > Concepts. Today after about a Year of 
> usage I have to say that its the
> > best user interface that I ever used so 
> far!
> > The only negative points that I still 
> don't get is the removal of the
> > power of button (without config to 
> change it). But yes there is an
> > extension to add it again!
> > So just because the rants are much 
> more visible don't think it is the
> > majority! ;)
> 
> Please. What would you think of the 
> system that when you click on FF starts 
> FF, Evo and Gimp? I think you would say 
> the system is broken.
> 
> Right now, if I want to start an app, the 
> shell gives me zoom out, search, 
> expose, workspaces, dash and apps, 
> followed by zoom in. WTF? Seriously?
> 
> I am glad that you can take a lot of pain, 
> but when things don't make sense, they 
> don't make sense. No rant - just facts.

You won't be able to convince Gnome3 zealots.
Believe me, a lot of people tried.

Vote with your legs. Switch to a different desktop.
A lot of people switched to xfce.

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vda