Sign of the Gnome 3 apocalypse?

Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R caf at omen.com
Mon Mar 26 17:36:23 UTC 2012


Sorry - that was supposed to be  a private message.

On 03/26/2012 10:34 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> See figure.1  -- nothing new under the Sun since VAX/VMS
>
> On 03/26/2012 10:26 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
>> This bug casually mentions that an app (swell-foop) menu has
>> moved from the app itself to the gnome-shell panel:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803430#c4
>>
>> My reaction to this is "What in the $#@! is going on?!?".
>>
>> Is gnome 3 now being turned into ubuntu unity where
>> no apps have menu bars and you only discover them by
>> accident when you happen to mouse over the unity panel?
>>
>> Does anyone understand the logic behind this apparent
>> wildly popular meme of hiding essential controls where
>> no one is ever likely to stumble across them?
>>
>> I'm beginning to suspect that Microsoft is paying
>> developers to deliberately destroy interfaces :-).
>

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