Comments on: Gnome 3.0 To Be Delayed Until September 2010?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:27:00 +0000

why can’t they leave this stuff the hell alone?? kde4 looks pretty and all, but it killed my productivity. the desktop paradigm has lasted this long for a reason – it friggin works.

By: Normand C.

Normand C. — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:31:00 +0000

I’m with michaelwholley. I like Gnome’s simplicity a lot, it reminds me of MacOS 9 of old (I’m a former Mac user, but switched before the advent of OS X) along with Windows’ task bar.

But I’ve been using UNR 9.10 on my portable for a few weeks now, and my brother showed me Moblin 2.0… And that made me realize that the desktop could be so much more than an Applications menu, a background image and a boatload of icons. :-P I think it is great that the GNOME team tries to reinvent the desktop instead of copying what’s already been done. I just hope the end result is more polished than the screenshots I saw in the “Designing A Desktop For Today” March 28th article.

And if GNOME-Shell means I can get rid of the PITA that is Compiz, that’s a bonus! (I like Compiz effects a lot, it’s just exasperating that it creates so many conflicts)

By: Normand C.

Normand C. — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:31:00 +0000

I’m with michaelwholley. I like Gnome’s simplicity a lot, it reminds me of MacOS 9 of old (I’m a former Mac user, but switched before the advent of OS X) along with Windows’ task bar.

And if GNOME-Shell means I can get rid of the PITA that is Compiz, that’s a bonus! (I like Compiz effects a lot, it’s just exasperating that it creates so many conflicts)

By: mike moreau

mike moreau — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:14:00 +0000

I agree with others, if I’m forced to used Gnome-Shell I’ll switch to XFCE or WindowMaker. I recently tried it, and it’s horendous. It makes my normal tasks five times more difficult and for what? It doesn’t even look cool, it looks stupid.

I hate KDE and it’s chintzy plastic feeling. The current state of Gnome is marvelous, in fact I think it’s the best desktop environment out there besides the BeOS/Haiku tracker. If they’d integrate a dock (I personally wouldn’t use it, but I know many who would) I think it’d be perfect.

In fact we should start a freakin’ petition to make sure the Gnome team keeps working on regular Gnome as well as the Gnome-Shell.

By: mike moreau

mike moreau — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:14:00 +0000

In fact we should start a freakin’ petition to make sure the Gnome team keeps working on regular Gnome as well as the Gnome-Shell.

By: GiveMeAGnome

GiveMeAGnome — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:13:00 +0000

I can’t wait !

By: GiveMeAGnome

GiveMeAGnome — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:13:00 +0000

I can’t wait !

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:07:00 +0000

does anyone other than me think we need to be optimizing code and reducing and reusing code in linux?i mean for what gnome/kde/xfce actually do seams extremity bloated to me what i think we need is to skip a couple of release cycles and have a cleanup release of Debian kde gnome Ubuntu and any and all code across the boardthe endless release cycles always add more code and bloat and projects seam to always get scraped or completely rewritten once they get a feeling of completeness instead of cleaned up and optimization it never ends :(

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:07:00 +0000

By: kersurk

kersurk — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:17:00 +0000

Usually, there are 3 different modes of using computer (for me)

1) With mouse
2) With keyboard
3) With keyboard and mouse

I tend to be lazy a lot, so just drifting around with mouse – which means searching for an application by typing its first letters would uncomfortable, except if I’m in mode 2 or 3.

That’s it. I hope there will be best methods for keyboard and mouse navigation at the same time.

The delay is definitely good decision, as there’s no real rush, so it can be afforded.

However, I’m testing latest Linux stuff all the times, so whether Gnome 3 is official or not doesn’t change much.

By: Mohan

Mohan — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:56:00 +0000

I don’t mind that it is pushed back as I rather have product that is late and be more stable and usable then a rushed one. :)

By: Mel

Mel — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:47:00 +0000

I don’t like Gnome-Shell. It’s plain weird. I like Gnome how it is, it just needs more eye candy, because it feels static and old compared to KDE, Windows and Mac. It works it’s usable but eye candy is eye candy and everyone loves it.

By: Seif Sallam

Seif Sallam — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:21:00 +0000

its good to take their time but at the end the final product is done good.

By: Lucas

Lucas — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:13:00 +0000

I like the ideas that they have for Gnome-shell. It does not feel too different from what we already have but certainly offers some room for improvement. It unfortunately is still in a very rough form at the moment. Not certain if it is really in the beta stage yet.

By: James

James — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:11:00 +0000

I have found it to be very useful, of course there are a few bugs and what not, but it’s simple, elegant and useful. Compiz is… eye catching… but not as intuitive to use. I have been using it back and forth with my Linux Mint 7/ubuntu 9.04 installation with few problems. I find that Gnome-shell is something you have to actually experience before you judge it, when I first saw it I thought… what the hell is that? It actually repulsed me. But I grudgingly decided to try it and found it to be extrememly efficient.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:10:00 +0000

I’m all for Gnome Shell. I personally feel that the Desktop paradigm is getting old and I think every OS will start looking on how to re-invent itself.
I actually like how Gnome Shell works, and I’m excited for for Gnome 3. There are a few bugs in the version I was playing with, but the system was stable for me. I even had it replace Metacity as the default windowing system.

I like seeing groups in the Linux camp trying to create new ideas instead of just copying Apple/Microsoft. Now trying to change the Desktop paradigm without talking to users is risky though. So I hope the Gnome groups finds a happy medium.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:57:00 +0000

As long as I can shut it down its fine by me, If it becomes mandatory I’ll switch to xfce.

That’s the reason I didn’t switch to KDE 4.0 as was planning to, they made plasma mandatory, as in “you can set up your desktop anyway you want as long as it is constrained in crippled stupid plasmoids.”

By: Edward

Edward — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:52:00 +0000

I really dont like where gnome 3.0 is heading. I absolutely love the current gnome (was a huge factor in winning me over from windows) but this gnome shell looks like something that would be useful on small notebooks; not for a desktop.

I fear the gnome devs think they are doing what KDE did, design something different which wasn’t too popular at first, but in the end came out really well. Just because it worked out well for KDE, doesnt necessarily mean its will work for gnome.

Furthermore if your right that the gnome devs are just making what they think is good rather than what the public want, then I feel Gnome 3.0 is going to be linux’s equivalent of Vista :P