What Linux Users Are Saying About GNOME In 2012

1801: Keep going in the direction you are, but try to stabilize APIs. Seems that for Gnome 3.4 there was an ability to add 'search providers' to the search function, in Gnome 3.6 that was broken, though I did manage to find one for Wikipedia that works perfectly. It was not like the Ubuntu Dash, where you type something in and it sends it off to Amazon, but instead you had to type a 'w <search term>' then it would search. Much better for privacy concerns.

1802: in gnome 3.4 if i search "word" libre writter used to show up
now in 3.6 i have type exact name "libre" for it show up
this sucks

1803: Keep it old school. :)

1804: - The Dash to Dock extention should be in default gnome3
- Please let users configure themes,... and the position of the dock...
- The icontheme (especially the folder icons) lowers the visual quality of the shell

1805: Keep up the good work, and remember, there are many of us who really like the new directing you are taking!

1806: Gnome misses a good development environment to code and debug with Gjs. The documentation should also be dramaticallty improved.

1807: Stop being delusional.

1808: I would strongly like to be able to manually arrange multiple virtual desktops.

1809: The windows overview effect is too heavy

1810: Super-key is the most brilliant move, something that has engulfed me totally. As a long time KDE user (I used Gnome2 at times), I cannot go back to kde now because of the modern look and super-key usage. Guys! you rock! Let people say whatever they like, your "simple yet modern look" path is simply superb!
But, please provide more configuration options & themes (say, gnome-tweak-tool). Good luck! :)

1811: Restore recent files / make recent files as easily accessible as it is in unity Dash

1812: Just listen to users. Make more stable and uniform codebase, and make easier to develop js extensions. Add don't let error/incompatibility in extension to break system.

1813: Thank you !

(A gnome user since 1999)

1814: To clarify the Gnome version question, the latest version I've used is 3.6 and above, IIRC. Dunno why they rolled "what have you used" and "what are you using" into one question.

I've also not contributed directly to Gnome, it's just usually been my Desktop Environment of choice when introducing others to Linux. Hosing it hasn't really helped me in that respect since now they complain about it being slow and oversimplified. What then? I guess I could suggest XFCE or something. *sigh*

If I could have selected more than 3 things above that I wanted fixed, I would have. The dead space in the themes. The almost useless clone of Mac OS X's "Preferences" application. The Nautilus tabs (I'd rather have columns than that thing, if you're copying Mac OS X). The terrifying ripoff of Mac OS X's "Quick Look" which constantly flashes between a solid rectangle and transparent when moved if it hasn't crashed at that point (and damn is it slow, do blank the rectangle to solid black before redrawing it? Seriously... what the hell). The dock as a half-assed replacement for a desktop. I don't even think it supports folders. If you're going to borrow so heavily from Mac OS X, borrowing that would be nice. Also, don't deny you're borrowing heavily from Mac OS X, it'll just make you look ridiculous. Though I admit, at least Mac OS X users can configure most of what they need from their not broken Preferences application.

1815: please, prioritize the utility of the interface; i do not use a touch screen, (and neither can i recall anyone who does), so the usage should also be pointed towards the keyboard and mouse as well. and i still don't get how to "operate" with the virtual desktops, i see it more intuitive just working with the windows (minimizing, tiling...); or perhaps you shoud implement it some other way.

1816: most worse side of gnome is tray. It should be changed. Again...

1817: open multiple windows from the panel without right click new Window

1818: Please, throw out Mono! I don't want to go without Tomboy.

1819: Why does every new release of GNOME 3 require more clicks to do basic tasks.

GNOME Shell and Mutter uses a lot a CPU and memory usage to manage windows, Areo barely uses the CPU to render windows, i know X Windows is crap, but it can be improved.

GNOME 3 is almost bad as Windows 8, both Windows and GNOME developers think it's a 'great idea' to turn a desktop operating system into a Smartphone, guess what barely anyone owns a touch screen desktop monitor. Also it does not help that most of the developers of GNOME seem to have their head up their asses, when someone critises their UI decisions.

For first time ever, i always worry what feature has been removed from a new version of GNOME. This should not happen to any piece software! I bet GNOME 4 will be like Toms Window Manager :).

Also using Linux only dependices such as systemd is slowly making GNOME 3 a Linux only DE, which would force many users to move to KDE or XFCE, but you guys don't seem to care anyway, since you are trying to attract users that cannot use a computer properly.

1820: Tray icons and notifications are crap. I need plugin to get tray on topbar (which is more convenient for me) and bottom status bar (which I always disable on Gnome 2) is showing from time to time covering the window I'm using - it's irritating.

1821: Keep up the good work.

1822: Nautilus used to respect the resizing of icons within individual folders ... that's gone. I'd love to see a patch that let me do that again.

And there's a little annoying problem with Compiz + Fallback Mode: When switching to fullscreen apps in WINE, the toolbars don't auto-hide like they should. The bug is so reliable and repeatable it could be advertised as a feature. My current solution is a script in my top toolbar that switches between compiz and metacity. This problem goes away with kwin or metacity. If you could flog the responsible parties, that'd be hot.

My final comment has more to do with updates from Canonical than anything else, but I'd appreciate leverage from your end. When I last updated my OS to Ubuntu 12.04 from 11.10, somebody, somewhere, decided the best thing to do was wipe all traces of every desktop environment from my computer and install GNOME3. And they did so without first letting me know it was going to happen - I got what was, to me, a fairly broken machine by ambush. I didn't want G3, I wanted new packages and the latest kernel. It took a week to find out about fallback mode and another two before I could get things 95% back to the way I had them. And now I hear that fallback mode is not long for this world.

I guess I don't get it. I'm not a designer or a particularly good programmer, so I am therefore not privy to the councils of the mighty. But this shit sucks. Even though it doesn't sound that way here, I've given G3 a fair shake since our rocky start, and it's hobbling to my workflow and notions of how a computer should behave. There are things I simply cannot do with the new and improved GNOME which appears to be underwritten by Fisher Price. I can't even create a launcher without consulting Google now, and my applications menu (if it can be called that) is a big box of crap with little tiles that look a lot alike.

The reason I complain is because I care. There's no good reason I should prefer GNOME to Cinnamon, Mate, or KDE, but nostalgia goes pretty far it seems. But if the GNOME project wants to "move forward" into new territory that requires relearning how to operate my computer, it will be doing so without me. Version 3.XX is rather inferior to KDE with its limited (and hidden - you sons of bitches!) options for customization. And fallback mode was really its only saving grace. When the 12.04 LTR of Ubuntu reaches the end of its life cycle, I'll be moving away from GNOME if it has continued along its present path of reinventing itself into uselessness. Until then, tell your developers that breaking people's workflow for the sake of doing something new endangers their relevance - STOP DOING THAT!

1823: stability and performance are more preferable to good interface but even gnome 3.4 ( in sabayon ) seems to be quiet buggy and slow

1824: keep on the good work.

1825: Please keep gnome2 there no matter what

1826: I want it more beautiful than mac. Thanks GNOME team!

1827: Extensions which comes very close to what Cinnamon is offering would be very helpful. Just making the existing extensions easier accessible would not solve issues people like me having in their day to day job.

1828: keep the good work

1829: Multi-monitor does work when a larger resolution monitor is centered vertically above a lower resolution monitor. The windows snap to wierd places.

Empathy crashes when used with portrait monitors

1830: Let choice to your users !!!

1831: 1. Disappearing bottom tray (not shown in overview, does not show with super+m)
2. First launch of overview takes very long time and result in cracked wallpaper (gdm restart helps)
3. Somehow keep extensions API stable and not changed with every release.
4. Lack of documentation.

1832: gnome-shell is the new hotness, but I wish there were more investment in pieces of the framework like g-s-d. Power management, for example.

1833: I think it's on the right track. I believe adding the Shutdown, hibernate, suspend options as a default setting was a fantastic idea. I do have to run service gdm3 restart a lot, esepecially on the netbook. It seems that the netbook, even on a wired 100baee-T has an issue with resuming from suspend or hibernate. I think this is directly tied to GNOME as even browsing to network share eats up 100% CPU... something is broken on that pipeline. Usually a reboot is rquired, which I am never fan of.

Other than that, GNOME3 is a step up from GNOME2. IF I was a GNOME2 nazi I could still go back to it, but I think the changes made on GNOME 3 are benefitial for everyone but the sound options, display options and details still need more work.

Good job.

1834: I wish I had more control over focus, particularly focus stealing. For example, I am using Shotwell to select photos for editing, as I select them I right click and open a series of photos in GIMP. I am only doing minimal edits so having a 4 or 5 pictures open in GIMP is fine. I don't want to begin editing until I have a chosen all of the photos, yet each time GIMP opens a photo, focus moves to it. Same thing in Evolution, as soon as a link in an email is clicked, focus moves to the browser. This drives me crazy. I realize in many situations this focus model is what people are used to, I just wish there were some fine controls - so I could say 'GIMP, Firefox, never steal focus.

1835: Work together.

1836: reduce dead space

make UI snappier

mouse to top left is triggered too often when I don't mean to do it. please make it an option to click in the corner or mouse to corner.

1837: Keep up the good work!

1838: Gnome was excellent from .9x to 1.x I ditched Gnome at
the dawn of 2.0, when the HIG became more important than user needs and all configuration options were removed. How many years passed before Gnome 2.0 had a menu editor? EXACTLY! Gnome 3.x is more of the same, with the developers ignoring the users. I use a desktop, not a smart phone or tablet, so Gnome 3.x is totally useless to me. In hearing others complain of the removal of all configuration options in Gnome 3.x, I asked them what else could they expect, given what happened at Gnome 2.x? If Gnome did it before at 2.x then certainly they will do it again at 3.x I am waiting for the Gnome team to remove any remaining configuration options because 'if a window appears on the screen it might confuse the user.' Plus, I only use free software, so desktop acceleration is not an option for me, even though Gnome developers dictate I must have it. Gnome has proven since 2.0 they don't care about the users. I like wise no longer care about Gnome, because it hasn't been excellent in years.

1839: I have loved the Gnome 3.x series and it has been what I was looking for in a Desktop (it makes my old FVWM configuration look really good). I have seen great improvements over these few years; however, there is still a ways to go. I enjoyed the older default notification behavior over the new 3.6 behavior, it just takes too long to come up and changing this default behavior is not obvious. Installing extensions is easy and it is obvious there is a lot of potential for customization. If there was anything to improve, I would say documentation of how to configure what is under the hood. My biggest complaint is lack of being able customize my Desktop's functionalities and capabilities (appearance is minor, the gnome desktop is already elegant enough ;) ).

1840: Many things are nice and shiny. Thanks!

The resident memory of GNOME shell increases to hundreds of MB here, and gets slow after a few days of use. In such a state, searching for an application sometimes takes up to 30 seconds. I have to restart it frequently to have a usable system. (Consistent problem over months of use.)

Although I'm often using the keyboard only, usability with mouse only regressed compared to GNOME 2 (like when I'm drinking coffee, I'm on the phone, etc.) Something like launching an application from the menu was two clicks and a bit of movement with GNOME 2.

I struggle to find the desired window in the activity overview. They all look the same. The names are often ellipsised, and there are no application icons visible.

Similarly application names are ellipsised. It is often not clear why something is suggested. Not even a tooltip with the full title is available. I also can't get Evince to show up by typing anything that seems relevant (evince, pdf, postscript, document, viewer or any localised variant thereof).

After months I still struggle with Alt+` vs. Alt+Tab.

The lock screen frequently exposes the screen before showing the password dialogue - leaking my screen to whoever can touch the keyboard.

The inconsistency of applications with and without menus is quite confusing. It took me lots of time to work out that some functionality of Epiphany is only available in the new application menu. Not really discoverable :-( All non-GNOME3 apps have this useless menu there that can only disappoint the hopeful user who discovered the app menu.

Multi-monitor support is very confusing, especially with work spaces. I sometimes have a window jumping to another monitor after launching.

1841: Keep going, you guys have the right idea of a desktop that gets out of your way so you can focus on work. That's the main draw for me, when im working i don't want to see so much clutter. Please reduce the size of the top bars on the window manager. when you full screen an app in unity it integrates the controls into the top bar. I've gotten used to this as it gives me more real estate. Whenever I try gnome again, i have this horrible period of adjustment where I have to deal with so much wasted screen space and it's so aggravating that typically i have to go back to unity.

1842: Listen to your users and provide more configuration options.

1843: I have these basic requests in order to improve my day-to-day work with my laptop:

- basic laptop config: I want to configure what to do when closing lid, without having to install Gnome Tweaker. I don't like ultra-configurability like on KDE, but not having basic configurations it's absurd. The same applies to G.Extensions, I don't want to enable/disable that on G.Tweaker or on the website via Firefox integration, I want it on the standard Gnome configuration panel.

- multi-monitor
-- detect vga unplug (like windows)
-- fix issues w/hdmi (I'm using gnome 3.2 and my TV doesn't work with gnome, perhaps last one does ok)
-- remember monitor situation (eg: home external monitor always on my right, work external monitor always on my left. Also height is important to get a second "magic square" to "activities" on the ext. monitor)
-- I discovered there's a config to fix the ext. monitor as one of the virtual desktops of the activities view, but it didn't worked. I would want to have my ext. monitor appear on the activities view (by default, or via enabling an option) instead of being a special desktop.

- reduce vertical wasted space, via a configuration option. My laptop it's 16:10 so I don't have a lot of vertical space. Default bar for the "X" for closing apps is sooo big. I always reduce it via manual modification of configuration files as per Arch Linux wiki's (even if I use Fedora 16). I also use maximized windows, and have that bar dissapear when maximized. I would want those type of configs to be available on the config panel, not modifying files.


These is really all I hate from Gnome 3. All the rest if between OK and Great.

1844: Well, I think their work is quite impressive. I did not have any problems with switching to G. 3.0. Of course, one cannot expect that everybody is going to be 100% happy but, as for me, many of the critics over exaggerate. I use old Radeon 4550 GPU solely for office work and no closed driver, only open. It works like a dream. Old two-processor Athlon64 CPU board and fedora 17. I have had no problems whatsoever! As a matter of fact on my second desktop is driven by CentOS 6.3 with the old Gnome 2.x. To my surprise it seems that, although I love it, it is easier to work within Gnome 3.4.

1845: Please allot for the interface to be compatible with 2 modes, also combine settings with gnome tweak tool, no reason they should be separate apps.

1846: Linux's advantage is flexibility of hardware and performance.

The composited desktop kill those advantages.

1847: simply listen to users

1848: i simply can't see anything positive on gnom3, it's much too optimized for tablet computers.. it looks big and ugly, it's hard to use and simple not a improvement at all

1849: The overview is too expensive of a visual environment to see currently running apps.

1850: The only thing I reallly still miss is a taskbar like what this extension was doing (but no longer works on 3.6):
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/368/taskbar-with-desktop-button-to-minimizeunminimize-/

Best would be if it would work in a similar way to windows 7 taskbar.

I also would like that the extension I need to install are part of the default features so that I don't have to relook for them or wait they are fixed each time there is a new gnome release.

Here are the extensions that should be part of the default:
- TaskBar
- AlternateTab
- gnome shell extension weather by neroth
- media player indicator
- TopIcons
- User Themes
- Activites Configurator (actually I just need to be able to remove the Hot Corner and the Activities button as I never ever use it)

Also I'd like to be able to disable the overview (what you get when you click on the Activities button as I never use it either)

1851: I think the GNOME team needs to focus more on GNOME's functionality on the desktop. First, this means proper multiple monitor support. I use my desktop to get work done. I find that using GNOME makes it more difficult for me to complete the tasks I need to tackle. Often times, this means using multiple windows at the same time. I need a way to easily and quickly navigate through the windows similar to KDE's present windows function as well as proper window management across multiple monitors.

Lastly, LISTEN TO YOUR USERS!!! I'm tired of GNOME's developers ignoring the input from the community.

1852: Please, bring back the task bar. The actual notification bar its big enough for both notifications and tasks.

Also, the user acount configuration program and network's, lack useful options that were on its Gnome 2 implementation.

1853: Alt-tab behaviour is absolutely broken, should cycle through in-app windows too (firefox <-> firefox downloads). The extra shortcut for that is annoying.

PERFORMANCE! Load time of the dashboard is horribly slow the first time. Load times for applications like gedit too.

Also full-screen SDL apps are broken in multi-monitor mode ( like xmame ), requiring choosing a single monitor so it doesn't split.

1854: Gnome 2 pretty much has my workflow nailed. The systray is an amazing resource where a lot of compact notifications could be filed into. With unity/gnome3 just THROWING that away a lot of legacy apps got junked in the proceess like tomboy and xchat and pidgin (sorry, empathy fails to meet my needs (I run chat at work over a proxy for security but my normal desktop not over a proxy so it can access the LAN. Pidgen lets me configure per service proxies and last time I checked empathy didn't. Last time I checked empathy was missing other nice things like sort by logs size etc too))
Task switching is now insanly painful. I switch between a console, a few browser windows, chat, tomboy notes and email a lot at work. Gnome 3 broke that. It wasn't even a contender for desktop replacement without a ton of add on modules. Which break every new release.... Stability would be nice kids. come on.

You've made me really sad. Gnome 2 has been my favourite desktop env in a long time. Now I'm living like a refugee in XFCE.

(Also, I have Dual monitors on my desktop at work and my laptop at home, if you can't support that properly either you fail again.)

1855: I would like that global menu played nicely with more applications. I see applications that are not showing a menu in the application itself, like gedit.
Would be nice to see in evolution performance improvements + support for autocomplete of google gmail groups of people, not only individual mails.

1856: I'm an early adopter of Gnome 3 (been using it since fedora 15 rawhide). While there're many cool concepts I like in Gnome 3, I found out that I come back to Windows much often compare to how frequently I did when I used Gnome 2. Here is serveral reason:

1. I really miss the taskbar.

2. Working across windows is a nightmare, as in most case I worked in a fullsize window. Drag files to skype become really painful :(. I like the idea Gnome want to improve user's focusness on what they are doing, but it seems not work (yet). The old windows system + taskbar gave me much more control over my desktop and applications, while I can always go to fullscreen mode when I need to focus on my app.

3. The new notification system is really horrible.
In some cases I got notified for what I've did, ie. mount a drive, and it won't go away unless I move my mouse over and explicitly close it.
The new notification area is also worse from my experience (compare to the old one), as it really catch my eyes and take too much focus for such (in most of the cases) trivial things.
While I like the idea of persistent notification icon, the message tray caused way too much accident trigger, and the almost persistent notification windows is ***. Bring back the right conner notification plus a "notifications" icon to show recent notification works for me. Android managed to bring a smooth notification experience on such a small area (smart phone top bar) and we should learn a thing or two from it.

4. I use fedora 17 and gnome shell seem to hang quite often. May be there're some problem with the NVDIA blob, a more sensitive crash-and-reset detector, or a hotkey for restart shell would improve my experience a lot.

1857: 1. Get off your high horses and listen to the users.
2. Realize that your software is only as good as the users think it is.
3. If users abandon your project, it's dead. So LISTEN TO THEM.
4. Stop dumbing GNOME down. Bring back ALL the functionality of Gnome 2.
5. 3D acceleration required for a GUI that isn't particularly impressive? W.T.F.?
6. Get in touch with real User Experience professionals.
7. A "desktop" that is only suitable for tablet use but can't be run by tablets or ordinary PCs due to its ridiculous requirements? No thanks. In fact, sod off.
8. Get to grips with the idea that SOME people out there actually use Linux in REAL working environments and don't want you to fuck their workflow.
9. No, YOU DO NOT KNOW IT ALL.

1858: Bring back proper alt+tab, or at least make the fancy alt+tab toggle-able.

1859: Search improvements are appreciated (i.e. integration of address book, programs, files).

As a desktop user, I prefer keyboard shortcuts to point & click. The mouse activation of the "hot corner" and bottom accessory bar is far too sensitive and an almost constant distraction/frustration. Please include a simple switch to configure or disable them so that it's no longer necessary to edit the .js files after every Gnome update.

Configuration documentation for desktop components should be updated.

1860: Take a look at some of the most popular Gnome 3 extensions, and WHY they're so popular, and consider making them core features exposed via advanced preferences.

I'm talking about extensions such as:
1) Window List -- to bring back the convenient gnome2 windowlist to the top panel, making use of otherwise dead space.
2) WindowOverlay Icons -- so you can tell at a glance what each app is when you hit the Super key, rather than just seeing a tiny window.
3) Frippery Move Clock -- clock should be movable; Having the upper-right corner mouse hotspot be the status menu allows for quicker access.
4) Alternative Status Menu -- shutdown/reboot/suspend being shown should be core preferences, imo.

Also, it'd be nice to have a calculator built-in to gnome search (using an extension for that atm). And a pony.

1861: Please listen to pleople needs. Do not throw away the fallback and optimize the themes. There is so much deadspace in them.
If I need something like Gnome Shell I would by mac
Give more options and configuration.

1862: Add a hidden hibernate option, next to shutdown by default, because a lot of people use their laptop as a portable desktop and the battery is not always as good as Apple laptops.

Also expand the power management plan options, to include an option in the dropdown menu when plugged in: only turn off the screen when the lid is closed, because going to sleep means losing empathy's connections, which can be annoying.

Other than that; I was a big fan of KDE, and saw Gnome 2 as KDE minus strong points, but Gnome 3.4 is realy hitting the sweetspot for me: especialy because it reduces visual information, yet is completely useable, and better than KDE in the ways that I used KDE. I don't understand why anyone wants to use Mate, since Gnome 3 can do everything Gnome 2 can do, yet different and more efficient... Congrats on converting a KDE fan :-)

1863: Thank You

1864: improve window manager performance, cpu usage (both idle and when in use).

1865: Recent versions of gnome 3/gnome shell got gradually better and more stable, and it is now very usable. So thanks for the hard work.

Suggestions :
- Don't give up the gnome panel fallback mode, for users that want the nice Gnome integration in VM environment, or with crap hardware.
- Please improve support for proprietary video drivers.
- You have a nice and coherent paradigm with Gnome shell. Don't listen to whiners too much :D

1866: GNOME 3 is a disaster and your removal of fall-back mode was a terrible decision. There's a reason Ubuntu refuses to use Gnome-Shell, it's unusable.

1867: hooray for official "classic mode" extensions pack!

1868: get a better job?

1869: Gnome-shell is great. Would love to see the firefox/emacs mindset in more parts of Gnome. Better documented API:s would probably help to produce more Gnome hackers (I've given up several times on using the APIs from Python).

1870: Yes, stop destroying the platform to try to force users into your vision for them. People should be able to self-determine. GNOME Shell is great as an experimental user interface, but it's no excuse to completely remove support for important, basic features like tree view or to break GTK to try to force people to work in a way that is more compatible with your ideology.

Open-source is allow about self-determination and collaboration. You guys should just apply for jobs at Apple and let someone competent take over the GNOME project before it becomes utterly desolate (and the project is well on its way now).

1871: Do not drop gnome-panel, many people are using it, even today.

1872: nm-applet in Ubuntu is way better than your worthless alternative
system-config-printer is way better than your worthless alternative

Stop being so iOS!

1873: I find Gnome 3 to be usable on laptops, but on the desktop I'd much rather stick with gnome 2.

1874: I mainly use GNOME v2.x in Debian stable, but I have enjoyed trying the new GNOME in Fedora. I like the new aesthetic, but it does require a different approach/attitude in how you work with your computer. Please also consider not just the end users, but also how the new ideas in user interface/environment are affecting the people who are currently or planning to make programs and applications that run in your desktop environment. Helping educate users and especially developers about the ideas behind your implementation will make the transition easier from the traditional desktop model to the new minimalist aesthetic.

The thing I am most disappointed with is the increasing system requirements. Usually minimalist means faster and more compatible, but with GNOME 3.x this has not been the case.

1875: Add & integrate more IM and Social networking protocols with the User Interface. seamless integration of such services WILL pull users. Also try and improve performance on lower end hardware if possible. Thankyou!

1876: Not in particular

1877: A lot of the changes from gnome 2 to gnome 3 seem like they would work really well for a tablet/touch screen device but are very tiresome for a regular desktop setup. Huge amounts of white space, huge icons, having to constantly move the mouse all over the screen to do simple things. These problems need to be fixed. Not having a proper task bar and being able to minimize applications is a huge problem for getting work done. The reason these things have been around for so long is because they work extremely well. Radical changes to how a desktop environment works are great, and needed, for phones and tablets but they shouldn't be forced on a normal desktop computer.

1878: Please, merge gnome-tweak-tool and system settings. Also, have logout and reboot options from the user menu. Make it easier for extension and theme developers so that they can update their stuff on time for release and it doesn't break.

1879: I want to be able to configure the desktop as much as in Gnome 2. Now this tablet like interface is awful for desktop users. At least bring back the taskbar. Make possible to add applets to the panels.

1880: GNOME still can't adjust mouse scroll speed (in all applications not just in the web browser). Why are basic functionality improvements like this ignored?

1881: Configurability is a key component; removing the ability of extensively customized panels is a big productivity holdback (Unity suffers from the same issue as well).

1882: I just want proper menus. Do what you want with the rest.

1883: Do not forget "desktop" users.
There is deffenetly need of better default theme (and mutch more cohirent than adwanta).
Gnome-shell need to offload cpu usage on minimized applications.

1884: Keep the speed like Gnome 2 did,and listen to users

1885: I'm using GNOME on Ubuntu 12.10, but it is on older hardware so it goes to classic so I haven't had any experience with newer versions of GNOME.

1886: the défault theme icones very very bad image for gnome3, and the new clic for access applications...for what? nothing utilities?!

the tactile option, its okay but : nautilus with monitor acerT231H its bugbug no touch its possible on nautilus and no access on clic for open repertories, impossible!

So its okay for this objectif and cut fonctions temporaries for good work for the futur but i dont understand why this"Bug touch"(ubuntu,fedora,arch...after linux 3.4) and no work for me and you: the utilisateur!!!

the gnome extensions web site its okay but for custumize gnome3 nothing easy!

1887: Make it more configurable. For example you can't turn off the screen saver. For kiosks I need to be able to easily so this.

1888: Half-way because:
* UI style is in right direction now user customization is needed(themes,widgets,etc...) + feature like KDE online theme installer
* Dependency, libs,driver problems...ehh compiled it on gentoo, checked 5 different hw platforms/distro.. well it's hell :)
* More internet service integration, currently quite good Address book/messenger integration but features like skype/internet RSS feeds HUD's ..im not talking about ground work of integrating all this stuff but providing public api to display information from app regions, web/rss urls, jscript(like Metro stuff) and announce it to public. Well Desktop is HUD for info.. time to make it more then just display .. like smart display:) uhh maybe not the best one of ideas(as performance hit but ... could be killer feature)
Best regardz from SunnyDrake

1889: Do take consideration of ur users desires, it's the way to prosper. Keep up you good work and God bless

1890: Thank you very much for your effort in creating this nice desktop environment.
I'd be very happy if Gnome team has a clear goal.

1891: Like most gnome users, I have found Cinnamon to be a perfect complement to the gnome suite of software. If gnome could become more like cinnamon but with more extensions and configurable options it would be more friendly to users, certainly more popular.

1892: Dash-to-Dock by default!

1893: I like the new theme of Gnome 3.

what I need is minimize button and windows switcher available all time without needing to go to activity button!

1894: I don't understand why there are two app menus (gear icon in the application window and the drop-down from the top panel)

1895: keep rocking

1896: Make gnome 3 run on nexus 7 like ubuntu with unity currently is, I realy think that gnome is much better to use on tablet than unity

1897: Please make the Use Themes bug free. Most of the time, if i install a user theme, the gnome shell would crash. (not immediately, but apparently)

1898: Less bloat,
Better stability - possibly due to binary drivers (nvidia / amd)
More seamless with KDE, while still maintaining simplicity.
Faster, more responsive environment -> less processor usage from wysiwyg.
better integration with pacman / aur, package manager from arch linux.

1899: Even in the current state GNOME can be better than other desktops just for the count of speed.
Just make it faster. Do not script what runs 1000 times a day and can be implemented in native code.

GNOME3 would be great for tablet - but I doubt - speed of 1Gz ARM machine enough for having great desktop experience.

GNOME configuration - is a clone of Windows registry - binary database with only 2 editing tools (one of them is GUI-dependent).
JSON is much better (for human readability and speed of handling) for configuration storage than XML.

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