F16 - a good experience

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri Dec 30 19:53:35 UTC 2011


On 12/30/2011 07:00 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 12/30/2011 08:51 AM, Patrick Lists wrote:
>> Luckily the frippery extensions and some other good stuff on
>> extensions.gnome.org allow me to mimick GNOME2 pretty well.
>
> Doesn't it bother anybody else here that many people have to use a bunch
> of third-party extensions and mimic the way Gnome 2 worked just to make
> Gnome 3 usable? Shouldn't Gnome 3 be easy for the average user right out
> of the box? Am I the only person here who thinks there's something wrong
> here?
No you aren't.

> Of course, I don't use Gnome any more, and the above is why, so
> you might not think I'm being objective here.
I went the same route.

> Still, it makes me wonder.
I wonder what Red Hat will do with it in RHEL?
In the shape Gnome 3 is currently in Fedora (comprising Fedora 16), it 
doesn't have any future in the commercial world, IMO.

Ralf



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