Paradigm shift going from Gnome2 to Gnome3

[Tim]

On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 10:44 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> There is a paradigm shift going from Gnome2 to Gnome3 which I have not
> seen discussed on this list.
> 
> Gnome2 is totally mouse oriented. Everything you want to do you do by
> moving the mouse and clicking. Obviously I am rerring to Gnome2 itself
> not applications.
> 
> However, in Gnome3 a large fraction of actions have been moved to the
> keyboard.

Found another can of worms to open?  ;-)

It just seems another oddity.  Using the mouse, or other pointing
device, was seen as making things easier for the non-computer literate,
who distinctly hated typing for the command line interface.  Yet, now,
we're going to make them use the keyboard, albeit for a command line
interface in a GUI...

Linux has recently been pushed as "must get it onto ordinary desktops,"
but who for?  (With RHEL and its ilk for corporate, Fedora (and its ilk)
for home.)

Is a corporation going to want to spend $100 per graphics card per PC,
so that the default Gnome 3 actually works, or are they going to
continue to only want to put in the $20 graphics card?  (That just won't
work with the new all-singing, all-dancing, Gnome 3.)  So there's the
next RHEL with Gnome shot down in flames.

Likewise, the *average* home user faces the same quandary, and most
people buy underpowered computers.  So that's Fedora out of the
question.

It's really only the die-hard computer nuts who have the expensive
graphics cards, and those tend to the gamers hooked on Windows games
like World of Warcraft, or whatever the current fad is.  So that's
virtually any type of Linux ignored.

If you do want to run flashy 3D environments on Fedora, are there any
other realistic choices than ATI or Nvidia, and the proprietary drivers,
to get it working?  That, also, doesn't look good for Fedora.

The phrase, "shooting oneself in the foot," springs to mind.

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