The Best Features Of GNOME In 2012

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 19 December 2012 at 03:08 PM EST. Page 11 of 15. 5 Comments.

1001: Panel widgets

1002: Dynamic workspaces, Activities (Exposé-like dashboard)

1003: Keyboard shortcuts to quickly change desktops

1004: Application Integration

1005: Low hardware requirements of GNOME2

1006: fallback mode

1007: Gnome3 ? Nothing.

1008: Application Launcher

1009: The new interface, which is actually quite nice once you get used to it.

1010: Hot corner, full screen dash,

1011: Simple look, easy configuration of Gnome2

1012: compatibility with Compiz, gnome-panel

1013: Desktop switching

1014: Workspace handling

1015: GUI consistensy

1016: The expanded windows view

1017: Great Alt+Tab switcher. The best of any WM I've used.

1018: Workspaces, shortcut to search, notifications, multi monitor support

1019: taskbars and drop down menus

1020: Workspaces, shortcut to search, notifications, multi monitor support

1021: Virtual keyboard

1022: 2D Interface, workflow.

1023: shell extensions

1024: Gnome shell does not work with programs opening the wine emulator. You can not activate the program with the "notification area".

1025: Ability to place an icon on the desktop

1026: behavior develop by JS

1027: Variable desktop count

1028: GNOME Fallback Mode

1029: The activites corner. Love it.

1030: Extensions, easy shell restart on minor crash (alt+f2,r)

1031: nice UI design, feature-rich file manager

1032: Extensions. Quick Pulseaudio output switching.

1033: would not like them to go away GNOME 2 Shell

1034: gtk3, the "old" nautilus (and gvfs)... nowdays nothing else

1035: fallback modes e.g.

1036: Add shutdown / restart / suspend options Better compatibility with Compiz and other window managers Developer attitude Reduce dead space in the theme

1037:

1038: Nautilus tree view

1039: none, I'm not using this pile of shit

1040: Don't take anything else away, for the love of God.

1041: Minimalizm as whole :). But the writing in notify bubble is bad idea ... then it is not simple becasue you can carry on talk in this notify bubble or open new windows . I think it should automaticly open a window after click in bubble with out writing inside bubble.

1042: nautilus tabs

1043: the tray and pidgin integration

1044: to be faster than KDE

1045: GtkWebkit, GStreammer

1046: HUD (gnome-do-like tool)

1047: App search, support for AWN+DockbarX as a dock, multiple clocks in clock applet, a proper main menu for browsing without searching

1048: easy of use

1049: dynamic workspaces

1050: traditional interface

1051: GNOME fallback, XKB for keyboard layouts, themes other than Adwaita not segfaulting

1052: Switching Windows with the X-Key

1053: mast be stable !!!!!!!! hate when you forget it

1054: dash search

1055: shell search

1056: task bar, cant live without it!

1057: configurable panel

1058: hot corners

1059: tracker search

1060: tracker search

1061: Rely on Nautilus

1062: All manners of searching in Activities view

1063: All manners of searching in Activities view

1064: Well integrated keyboard shortcuts

1065: Dynamic workspaces, extensions, searchfunction, terminal, applications

1066: notifications, dynamic creation of more virtual desktops

1067: fallback mode, not for UI but power usage and performnce!

1068: Windows/Applications tab from 3.4

1069: Keyboard shortcuts

1070: I like a lot the new design, but a the notification design is poor, extremely noise and the bar don't act like supposed to act (sorry my poor english)

1071: multiscreen, wifi

1072: applet area, network manager

1073: nautilus. disks, other apps Ubuntu includes

1074: Configure it the way I like it, even though it may look and work differently by default

1075: Configurable Menus

1076: applets, taskbar(s), tiled windows, always-on-top, lock, shutdown, suspend buttons

1077: Keyboard/Mouse support

1078: fall-back mode

1079: All features currently available

1080: The simple approach. Desktop Environment should not dominate.

1081: online accounts

1082: I lke the search functionality in Gnome 3

1083: Nautilus extra pane, ability to minimize, optional use of min/max buttons, and window "snapping" to screen edges

1084: All available in gnome 3

1085: Black Theme

1086:

1087: gnome shell app launcher search

1088: All features

1089: Most Features

1090: I'd rather not say, the features I relied on last year have been removed.

1091: Traditional desktop metaphor. FFS.

1092: All current features

1093: Most Features

1094: Dual-Pane in nautilus

1095: gnome fallback

1096: multiple desktops

1097: Activities Overlay

1098: Bulk of it

1099: Current theme

1100: Virtual desktops, Expo


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