Paradigm shift going from Gnome2 to Gnome3

[Christopher Svanefalk]

On 06/20/2011 05:44 PM, 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.
>
> This is the same difference as that of creating documents in Word and
> Latex. And this change in paradigm used to be a hot topic.
>
> Does anyone out there have an opinion pro or con about this shift that
> will no doubt be continued into the future with Gnome?
I would just like to chip in and say I am using Gnome2 under F14 almost
exclusively using the keyboard, and it works wonderfully :)

I am staying away from Gnome3 until F16, and guess I will have to find
out the differences when I get there.