The 2012 GNOME User Survey Begins, Take It Now

[Delgarde]

I have no problem with people disagreeing. It's the bitching and name calling that ticks me off. If their vision does not fit yours (people in general, not you in particular) then switch to something else. I was a hardcore Ubuntu-user for quite a few years. But since I felt they were going in the wrong direction, I switched to Fedora a few releases ago. And that was the end of that.

Likewise. There's nothing wrong with disagreeing with the Gnome guys, but the amount of nastiness and abuse directed their way is really depressing.

[moonlite]

09. If you could change three things in GNOME, what would they be?
[...]

The options given in 09 are very skewed towards a
particular vocal minority of the Linux community. This is what i would
like to change:
1) more content apps (they're apparently in the making)
2) application sandboxing
3) better handling of system resources (think moving from gnome-session to a systemd powered session that starts apps in cgroups, that you do some resource management magic on. This to make it possible to do heavy duty work in the background while still watching a movie for example)

[cardboard]

It was never properly explained to me why I had to have a 2ft long panel on the screen, and the only useful thing I'm allowed on it is a clock right smack dab in the center.

I have a 27" monitor, I want my desktop to treat it like a monitor... not a 27" phone.

[a user]

It was never properly explained to me why I had to have a 2ft long panel on the screen, and the only useful thing I'm allowed on it is a clock right smack dab in the center.

I have a 27" monitor, I want my desktop to treat it like a monitor... not a 27" phone.

hmm, my panel is full of usefull things. i actually removed again some of them cause it felt overloaded. like on gnome 2 and on more or less any other os you can add kind of widgets or here called extensions into it

though, as this is still a work in prgress regarding feature richness, there aren't too many available yet. but enough for my tast.

[Yezu]

It was never properly explained to me why I had to have a 2ft long panel on the screen, and the only useful thing I'm allowed on it is a clock right smack dab in the center.

I have a 27" monitor, I want my desktop to treat it like a monitor... not a 27" phone.

I'm also confused by the top bar... I use GNOME on a 15" laptop and having a top bar (which has very limited functionality) and a maximized application bar (which also has very little functionality) is a terrible waste of screen space. Wouldn't it be wise to merge the two?