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Linus Torvalds � +Cyrill Gorcunov: it's not that I have rendering problems with gnome3 (although I do have those too), it's that the user experience of Gnome3 even without rendering problems is unacceptable.
Why can't I have shortcuts on my desktop? Why can't I have the expose functionality? Wobbly windows? Why does anybody sane think that it's a good idea to have that “go to the crazy 'activities'” menu mode?
I used to be upset when gnome developers decided it was “too complicated” for the user to remap some mouse buttons. In gnome3, the developers have apparently decided that it's “too complicated” to actually do real work on your desktop, and have decided to make it really annoying to do.
Here's an example of “the crazy”: you want a new terminal window. So you go to “activities” and press the “terminal” thing that you've made part of your normal desktop thing (but why can't I just have it on the desktop, instead of in that insane “activities” mode?). What happens? Nothing. It brings your existing terminal to the forefront.
That's just crazy crap. Now I need to use Shift-Control-N in an old terminal to bring up a new one. Yeah, that's a real user experience improvement. Sure.
I'm sure there are other ways, but that's just an example of the kind of “head up the arse” behavior of gnome3. Seriously. I have been asking other developers about gnome3, they all think it's crazy.
I'm using Xfce. I think it's a step down from gnome2, but it's a huge step up from gnome3. Really.
gnome-do covers a multitude of sins.I've only used Gnome because is one of the default options and KDE has always seemed like a resource hog to me (actually, so has Gnome, just slightly less so). Lack of Gnome screensaver options have always irked me. Since discovering the devs devoted a section of the docs to explain why (rather than how to overcome this flaw), it has enraged me. Taking away the address bar in Nautilus isn't enraging alone, having to press ctrl+l every time or poking arroung the gnome configs to get it back _is_.xfce has been my preffered de since I tried xubuntu. But lubuntu introduced me to lxde recently. lxde has been buggy for me, standard indicator icons vanishing all the time. But I finnaly figured these out and I'm gonna stick with lxde for a while. But I still like gnome-do in any de.gnome-do covers a multitude of sins.I've only used Gnome because is one of the default options and KDE has always seemed like a resource hog to me (actually, so has Gnome, just slightly less so). Lack of Gnome screensaver options have always irked me. Since discovering the devs devoted a section of the docs to explain why (rather than how to overcome this flaw), it has enraged me. Taking away the address bar in Nautilus isn't enraging alone, having to press ctrl+l every time or poking arroung the gnome configs to get it back _is_.xfce has been my preffered de since I tried xubuntu. But lubuntu introduced me to lxde recently. lxde has been buggy for me, standard indicator icons vanishing all the time. But I finnaly figured these out and I'm gonna stick with lxde for a while. But I still like gnome-do in any de.
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