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    Phoronix: GNOME 3.x Shell Isn't Yet Primed For FreeBSD

    While the GNOME 3.x Shell is working its way around to most major Linux distributions, within the BSD world, it's still mostly a GNOME 2.30 world...

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  • #2
    Frankly I don't think GNOMES Hell is primed for Linux either.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by sirdilznik View Post
      Frankly I don't think GNOMES Hell is primed for Linux either.
      I disagree. After trying countless desktop environment alternatives (even the most exotic ones), from lightweight to tiling and beyond, with an eye to usability and the other to performance, memory & power usage, I decided to give another try to the "big and bloated" ones. KDE is worse than I remembered - cute but horribly slow and memory hungry. Gnome 2 was a bit better (performance wise) but I still liked Xfce and Openbox more. I always stayed away from Gnome 3 because I didn't like the idea of having a javascript/css engine behind its shell, plus it was GNOME... but I decided to try it and, honestly, it's the best and most functional DE I have tried to date.

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      • #4
        Unity anyone?

        Am I the only one who likes Unity (GNOME)?

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        • #5
          Originally posted by halo9en View Post
          I disagree. After trying countless desktop environment alternatives (even the most exotic ones), from lightweight to tiling and beyond, with an eye to usability and the other to performance, memory & power usage, I decided to give another try to the "big and bloated" ones. KDE is worse than I remembered - cute but horribly slow and memory hungry. Gnome 2 was a bit better (performance wise) but I still liked Xfce and Openbox more. I always stayed away from Gnome 3 because I didn't like the idea of having a javascript/css engine behind its shell, plus it was GNOME... but I decided to try it and, honestly, it's the best and most functional DE I have tried to date.
          Gnome is surprisingly fast and efficient despite the javascript/css engine. I also like how well mutter works these days.

          I fully agree with you and it's the best I've tried to date too.
          Although one should note that I've only really given GNOME, KDE and XFCE a full thorough try.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Redi44 View Post
            Am I the only one who likes Unity (GNOME)?
            A lot of people do, but it's definitely not my cup of tea, and I'm sure it's not for many others too.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Redi44 View Post
              Am I the only one who likes Unity (GNOME)?
              I like unity, I think it makes an excellent interface for a laptop.

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              • #8
                Gnome 3 -out of the box- is stupid beyond repair.

                Who on earth had the fuckin idea to make it require more clicks and navigation for a task than previous versions.

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                • #9
                  (\me joins the troll war )

                  I also like Gnome 3 more than any other desktop environments I used in the recent years.

                  IMHO navigating through a KDE or xfce menu to find and open a application takes longer than pressing the super key, entering the first few letters of application name and return. And alternatively it's also very easy to click on a application in the favorite bar to open it.

                  KDE and it's default applications are also pretty ugly compared to gnome 3. Compare this to this. What looks uglier?

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Fenrin View Post
                    IMHO navigating through a KDE or xfce menu to find and open a application takes longer than pressing the super key, entering the first few letters of application name and return. And alternatively it's also very easy to click on a application in the favorite bar to open it.
                    In KDE this can be accomplished either through alt+f2 (which is much better than gnome's alt+f2 launcher) or through either the default or lancalot launchers.

                    [QUOTE=Fenrin;274702]
                    KDE and it's default applications are also pretty ugly compared to gnome 3. Compare this to this. What looks uglier?

                    IMHO the second looks much worse. I generally change the color theme in KDE though, they make this very easy to do, so it is no big deal. (I can't say the same for Gnome 3.)

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