Re: GNOME 3.16 Changes

Summers Pittman
>>Phone:404 941 4698
>>Java is my crack.



On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Summers Pittman ℝ <[email protected]> wrote:
> Summers Pittman
>>>Phone:404 941 4698
>>>Java is my crack.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 8:03 AM, Toby Goodwin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Fred,
>>
>> Have you tried cinammon? It's all the good bits of GNOME, but without the "users are idiots / Apple fanboys"
>
> So I don't think the Gnome dev and UX team think we are idiots nor are
> they Apple fanboying (fanbuoying?).  Over all the GNOME team has made
> a lot of very cool unique decisions.  GOA is one of the killer
> features I love and point to when people ask me my why Windows 8 was
> so disappointing.  Extensions are a wonderful utility, looking glass
> is allows for amazing inspection, and I LOVE the messaging and
> notifications support.
>
> I can even see what the team is trying to do with some of the more
> recent changes.  The move of putting all of the confirmation and
> action buttons in the menu chrome is very similar to the action bar
> style concept of Android.  They are hilariously wrong and 30 years of
> UX research, user training, and preferences stand against them of
> course but I see where they are coming from.  The best we can do is
> file bug reports, make blog posts, and give useful construct feedback
> (or switch to cinnamon).
Actually I discovered I can also set run 'gsettings set
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings      overrides
"{'Gtk/DialogsUseHeader':<0>}"' to fix the dialogs.
>
>>
>>>Thank you and apologies for the rant.
>>
>> No problem. I had a very long and protracted rant at GNOME when F21 came out. (I actually opened a bug ticket against soundjuicer because I could not find the menu I needed - turned out it was there all along, just glued to the top of the wrong monitor.) I ought to turn that rant into a blog post, actually, because I think I made some good points.
>
> Please do.  Even Unity is advertising they got rid of global app menus
> FFS.  GNOME's cashew has got to go.  (Lets not even talk about the
> awkwardness of having sloppy focus, multiple monitors, and needing to
> move a window to the menu button to be able to keep focus ARGH!)
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Toby.
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