GNOME 3?

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 03:51:42PM +0100, Mario Torre wrote:
> Il giorno mar, 19/01/2010 alle 08.33 -0600, Neville A. Cross ha scritto:
> 
> > I found Gnome-shell amusing, it is going away from simplicity and
> > usability. For instance, not having a system menu make me nervous
> > about accessing "desktop effect" to get rid of gnome-shell. Finally I
> > use the search bar and it was quick. Not saying is bad, just
> > different. Requires a learning process. Gnome has been work oriented
> > and this has more bells and whistles. It is really eye catching.
> > 
> > I went to a Ubuntu launch party, some one get a weird setup to get
> > gnome-shell running (Fedora is easy). It really catch the attention of
> > everybody.
> 
> Ok, we're going a bit offtopic here, but it's interesting nevertheless.
> 
> I'm not sure I like it, it has some interesting idea, but I find it
> quite far from usable (ok, I've not tried it yet, just judging from the
> videos, so I'm trying to hold by feelings on that for now).
> 
> What I don't understand, is why not get rid of the panel bar at this
> point, the shell may be called by moving to some border, using a special
> key/mouse combination, or via the window border (which is another
> "obsolete" technology, but could serve a little more than just closing
> applications at this point).

Before this conversation gets too far off topic, let me remind
everyone that GNOME Shell uses an open development process.  The
developers have their own mailing list here:

http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list

If you have questions or constructive input about GNOME Shell, it
belongs on that list.  Thanks!

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