What People Are Saying About GNOME [Part 4]
3201: Add tab completion to Looking Glass
3202: gnome 3 is awesome
3203: Make it as flexible and easy to create widgets/arrange the desktop as KDE.
Gtk/html5 combination into browser able desktop apps are awsome. Keep that up.
3204: - Improve Nautilus and its detailed view, and make the position bar easily editable (e.g. like Dolphin)
- Make the DE more configurable without needing to use dconf-editor
- Improve the applications "menu"
Listen to the community and to the users' feedbacks.
3205: Compiz with 0 compatibility issues. List mode that resembles windows archive manager in context menu for example extract to new dir
3206: Memory Usage
Speed
Unity
Speed and clean of more bugs
3207: Go back to the clean, simple GNOME 2 design that stayed out of your way and actually let you get work done.
Stick with what worked and don't turn your back on your core users.
3208: Tried Ubuntu, Kubuntu, ... settled on Lubuntu. Will probably return to Super-os or Ultimate when they have Kernel 3.0.
LXDE seems best for me. Prefer Gnome 2, but not functional p'haps with kernal 3.0?
3209: - Add single click access to minimize and restore functionality within the GNOME shell (Maybe have the area that shows the current application drop down a list of all open windows, instead of the Quit option)
- Add more semantic capabilities, similar to (and preferably compatible with) KDE 4.x Nepomuk
- Improve GTK (performance and ease of development)
I like the advancements made with the GNOME shell. The interface is pleasing, and very attractive. It just needs some refinements to bring back functionality that has been lost in the transition (minimize/restore, some configuration).
3210: In general, the technology always seems to change for the better, I like that. Unfortunately, the obsession with "streamlining" configuration options out of the system tends to make things less usable. So I'd change that - the "you don't really need that" attitude when someone challenges the removal of a feature they used.
I wish they would stop removing features in the name of usability. If you take away something I use, THAT affects my usability. It seems sometimes that the GNOME team wants to be MacOS - presenting the "one true" interface that they will provide in their benevolence and we should all consider ourselves lucky to be allowed to use it. I like GNOME 2.x a lot, and I completely skipped 3.0 due to the new shell and the attitude that telling me how to use my computer is OK. I'm hoping 3.2 will bring back more configuration options - looking forward to the release of Fedora 16 so I can see for myself.
3211: I'll have to think about this one.
3212: - Applications MENU in Gnome 3
- Better documentation for GObject (A book perhaps)
- Be able to access application menu with a some key in overview mode (GNOME-shell)
- I miss the task bar =(
- It will be nice to have an howto on how to build GNOME 3 like in GNOME 2 but not the automatic tool.
3213: Better support for ATI viedo cards, and better programs for changing themes (gtk,icons,etc.).
3214: Make gnome 3 more easily customizable; make xdg easier to use; create a better launcher (Docky)
its getting bloated
3215: 1) Configurability: add & remove panels, more options, choices.
2) Better, more powerful software: nautilus in particular.
3) Snappier: Gnome 3 much more slower then Gnome 2 + Compiz.
Small, evolutionary steps to improving gnome. Not for me, but it has potential.
3216: More configurable
More contrast between window border and rest of window
See above
3217: I hear that customization of GNOME 3 failed miserably compared to GNOME 2. The same happened when KDE went from version 3 to 4, but now it is better in KDE 4 once again.
Make GNOME (or any other desktop environment) not just a Windows clone, but rather something that is simple, straightforward, easy to configure and use, and most of all powerful. Don't dumb GNOME down to the lowest common denominator. Make good use of screen space.
Except for early versions of KDE 4, I have always found KDE to be much more customizeable than GNOME. That is the main reason I use KDE and not GNOME.
3218: nautilus back/forward buttons on the left
3219: Why can't I use my applets on Gnome3?
3220: 1. Go back to the basics and stop trying to re-invent the wheel. 2.x has everything an effective UI needs. The 3.x workflow is horrid. Why not work on making features that behave logically and in a way that is predictable and consistent (navigating 3.x is convoluted and laborious).
2. Optimize the code to increase it's speed and efficiency (Why does CTRL+ALT+letter only register about 50% of the time and always after a 1-2 second delay? Fix that shit!). There is ZERO excuse for a sluggish UI given the outrageous speed of today's computers... yet things continue to get bogged down more and more with each release.
3. Focus on the platform. If you haven't read the recent Google employee rant (was on G+, accidentally posted publicly), go do it and understand the philosophy of creating platforms. Make GNOME a platform that has clearly defined insertion points. Linux is a fantastic platform that GNOME sits on, but there's no reason GNOME can't be a platform in and of itself.
LISTEN TO THE LINUX COMMUNITY!!! FFS, why is this even a question? The comments are out there... millions of them! Randomly pick a forum and you'll find all the comments or suggestions you want. You don't need to ask us... we're ALREADY telling you.
3221: Gnome 3 : It's an awful excuse for evolution .
We actually are a team that use Linux at work . In a team of 6, 4 co-workers already switched to xfce after the latest version of fedora . Gnome 3 sucks, and deep in your heart I believe you realize that too .
3222: Gnome 3 is beautiful in general, but the default icon theme is not that nice (but that may be an Ubuntu problem).
All the new effects of Gnome 3 are great and just feel so natural, but the performance is not always the best especially for older computers.
Don't let all the bad press about Gnome 3 discourage you, I think Gnome 3 (3.2) is great, much better than Unity and any other desktops I've tried recently.
3223: Kill GNOME 3 in a fire.
Learn to build software that your users actually want. Admit your failure, and turn GNOME 3 back into a GNOME 2 like desktop as a supported option.
3224: Continue on the gnome 2 path and stop trying to copy apple.
Make all windows and applications available without switching views, that is just unproductive.
Stop simplifying by hiding/removing all but the simplest config items. Place them under advanced menus if you must.
see above
(and otherwise, great work)
3225: Stability, stability, stability
3226: I would like to be able to get multiple terminals from the panel icon.
3227: - List view with wrap around in file explorer.
- Better default themes out of the box.
- Easier mounting of external media.
- Improve the graphics and thanks for your excellent work.
3228: Better HID definition and conformity.
Simplified means of modifying the GNOME registry (improve gconf-editor).
Better organization of system administration menu.
You probably hear this a lot, but I don't like the Unity/Gnome Shell paradigm. I know I don't have to use it, and I don't use it, but to me it's man-hours wasted on a forced paradigm.
3229: Greater customizability and personalization, make it faster, more polished.
Thank you!!!!!!!
3230: Better window tiling/layout support, similar to compiz grid.
More advanced options.
Support for multi-row icons on the panel.
3231: make gnome3 look like gnome2
keep gnome2, but improve it [all gnome3 code to gnome2 look and feel]
gtk - >kde compatibility
make gnome3 look like gnome2
keep gnome2, but improve it [all gnome3 code to gnome2 look and feel]
gtk - >kde compatibility
3232: Setup & config should apply to the whole machine, not just the desktop itself. Mac settings still a good bit ahead for covering holistic setup.
It's a tough job and there will always be people willing to take a pop at you. Good job for sticking to it.
As for suggestions: don't try to be all things to all people. Be clear who your primary market is. "Power" users will want different stuff from 'average' consumers. Simple fact. Decide which is more important to you and make sure you meet their needs. Preferably better than anyone else can.
3233: I don't like the abandonment of the traditional desktop model in favor of the table interfaces. I am currently using XFCE4.
3234: Imprison all involved with GNOME 3 after flogging them for several years.
Go work for China, and piss off.
3235: Seamless integration between applications, much like the "Online Accounts" feature is bringing.
3236: Better menu organization
decent colour schemes
for heaven sakes, go hire some UX people.
I normally use KDE. Gnome just feels too clunky. Admin stuff is too hard to find.
3237: Good documentation for bindings (Python) for libraries build arround Gtk. For example I have big mess in my application code because new gobject introspection works nicely for Gtk but not fot Pango...
Full support for good old menu (without saying about abandoning it in the near future).
Good working sound system (switching to PulseAudio cause me only problems without getting anythong useful), with sound mixer line in gnome 2.0 (it gave me what i needed in one place. why change it)?
Saying shortly: do not force people who liked 2.x to "better" 3.x. solutions. Better eye candy does not necessarily mean better productivity.
3238: * More configurable, at least the functionality of gnome-tweak-tool (and possibly gnome-session-properties) easily available (as they effectively were in 2.x);
* Stable API or at least better documentation of changes. For a non-core applet developer, the final 3.1.91 -> 3.2 changes where extremely frustrating, as there was no obvious place to find out how to fix API change related bugs;
* Less dogmatism -- I want to remove the a1ly icons, I don't want a GDM login sound, I want to customise the GDM theme; it should not be so hard to make these simple changes.
* Listen to the users
* Less "holier than thou" dogmatism on configurability
* More assessable, relevant, current documentation for "amateur" developers who don't want to subscribe to a high volume mailing list for a one off question (or be told to RTFS).
3239: make it easier to get it customized
reincorporate contextual menus (right click's)
3240: 1. Window tiling built in
2. Command line shortcuts
3. Keep it Simple
3241: 1- make a composite-less gnome-shell version for the 3d-impaired
2- customizability of the environment. even if its hidden, i shouldnt need to hunt down dconf settings.
3- allow users to disable suspend/hibernate completely since its mostly broken on linux. right now i had to disable a gnome-settings-daemon plugin through dconf (see point two).
nice innovation on top of the apple OSX interface. thank you for not moving the window buttons to the left too!
3242: -Rewrite it in Qt
-Make Brasero Work (CDs ALWYAYS get burned. given up recording CDs on linux)
-Introduce the changes that Canonical developed for Ubuntu (messaging integrated with the menus, and audio and all... best work canonical has made)
Do not think you must go where everyone goes. I've been hearing about Gnome 3 for as long as i can remember. It has been delayed over and over and over and over again. And when it came out, it was a unity clone, which $uck$...
Gnome 2 was pretty good already, in terms of functionality. All it need was speed. And a little update in functionality. Take Vista for example: it was a failure as an OS, but i found myself incapable of moving back to xp due to 2 main reasons:
- Start menu search :)
- Choosing power schemes in battery indicator.
Bottom line: i think that allowing the users to access stuff they need with the fewer amount of clicks as possible is the way.
The trick is how do you do that in a cool way, while tending the needs of most users... (maybe you should take the examples of MS Office Ribbon, and what i wrote above in this box, also the third think i would change on Gnome. that should give you something to think about...)
PS: M$ finally understood that people always expect faster with windows 7 and 8. that's ALWAYS valid. it might be good, but if it ain't fast, doesn't really matter...
3243: 1. Maintain Gnome Essence while pushing to modernize. 2. Add a stable functional integrated dock. 3. Stay away from full screen windows and kiosk
Keep up the excellent work! and Thank you!!!
3244: Give me back the old style UI.
3245: For Gnome 3 - keep some way to easily place commonly used programs into some directory like the Desktop so that these can be quickly accessed without having to page through countless installed but little used programs. This is an ease of use issue. The current ??? on the left of the Gnome 3 desktop is 1) not large enough and 2) not as easily updated as Gnome 2.
3246: Gnome 3 is nice on a laptop where space is limited and the activities hotspot, workspace switching and other shortcuts are useful. However i find it very restrictive on a desktop with lots of screen realestate (2 x 22 inch monitors).
The gnome 3 applications list does not always register new applications, adding in menu items for development tools and java based applications (without dpkg installers) is a nightmare.
Gnome 2 was miles better in terms of accessibility, but even then it was too fragmented. Even installing a new desktop theme from GnomeLook was difficult (Am i running metacity? emerald? why did the gnome team change the paths under .gnome2 AGAIN?!?).
Get it right the first time.
Incremental updates WITHOUT backwards compatibility is not a good development practice.
3247: I would improve keyboard accesability to be similar as in Unity (like: Alt+F1 etc) and i'd make icons smaller- even on 24" 1920x1200 icons are far to huge.
Also - i'd make the "close" buttom to minimize windows instead of closing them /and i'd change the icon on launcher of that app, so it would be visible that there is something "hidden" there/- or just made it default action to alt+f4 /while ctrl+Q would quit an app/- in other word, i'd make it similar to macosx.
3248: The integration with hardware.
Improve stability.
Add more configuration options.
Yes, I Would like GNOME to be more stable.
3249: 1. Allow more configuration.
2. Allow more configuration.
3. Allow more configuration.
Overall, I really like the shell bi-mode approach. Nice job.
However, GNOME has a MAJOR problem with its vision, simplifying the interface until it is now nearly unusable by advanced and efficient users. At least allow an "advanced" mode, so I don't need to type
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.clock show-seconds true
just to see seconds on my clock. Why can't I have multiple columns of workspaces, like I could since GNOME 1? Why can't I easily set focus-follows-mouse, without installing a tweak tool? Why can't I configure the laptop-lid-close action? Absence of these basic features is insane!
3250: Improve configuration options
Panels on the RIGHT hand side
3251: Enhanced Configurability (like KDE3 was before it was abandonded)
No silly GUI changes (leave my windows and buttons where they belong!)
Don't enter in a ratrace competition with Unity: you need to provide an real alternative for users, instead of trying to copy/best it.
Unity is unusable and will die anyway...
If GNOME is unable to do that, people wil look for other alternatives like XFCE,LXDE,... (WARNING: Linus has already!)
3252: On GNOME 3:
1. add virtual desktop support, with a configurable number of them and easy to see to switch between; specifically, I don't want to have to click or mouse over, then delay, then click.
2. the equivalent of "panels" so I can add little icons for the apps that I always run; position of these needs to be visible and stable at all times because I know where they are at all times
I installed Fedora 15 w/ GNOME 3 and absolutely hated it. I backed off to Fedora 14 with GNOME 2 to get back the functionality and UI that I find most productive (I'm a programmer). I couldn't (easily?) find virtual desktop support, a way to "pin" terminals and editors and apps to any kind of stable UI point, etc. I gave it a try for a day and found I could not do the simple things I was used to doing. A huge step backwards in productivity for me, and it's not like I have lots of requirements for productivity.
Maybe I was missing the obvious but I only found slightly documented hacks that maybe would have gotten me back to where I was with GNOME2 out-of-the-box.
3253: Kill GNOME Shell.
3254: - Better handling of multiple monitors (Prevent cursor from going off screen when the monitors aren't aligned, but slightly offset);
- I sometimes notice display garbage occurring, especially at startup. Is it GNOME doing that or something else, such as the X server?
- Hmm... Well there's hardly anything else I dislike about GNOME!
Continue your hard work! I'm pretty sure it somehow can still be improved. I haven't used GNOME 3 a lot, but it seems very nice.
3255: More options.
More customisation options.
Port to QT framework.
3256: 1) The availability of advanced options without overwhelming the user or relying on a 'tweak' application (Err on the side of simplicity, allow the hard things, a la OS X)
2) Availability of GNOME 3 in a FreeBSD distribution, or alternately, a Debian-based distribution without trickery
3) I know, tall order, but an office suite that doesn't suck and integrates well with GTK. I don't get why tablets get better office software than GNOME.
I know GNOME 3 has created a lot of flak, but I really think that this is one of the finest PC experiences in a long time. I use OS X as my primary, only because of the software. You have a hell of a foundation here, and every developer and other contributor should be proud.
3257: Keep it simple.
I know everyone seems to think you need to be big bright & flashy but one of the attractions to Linux is the simplicity and power to do more.
3258: - Go back to menus (faster to use)
- Separate the screen into dedicated applications/activities spaces
- More customizing possibilities for users
3259: 1. Make the top bar hideable, like Gnome 2
2. Fix the start menu so it's like Gnome-Do.
3. Fix the file manager so there is a parent directory button. Or at least fix the breadcrumbs because they don't work on my machine.
4. Drag windows across desktops. The current desktop situation is horrible.
Fix items 1-3 above, make it more flexible like gnome 2. I'm always considering going back to Gnome 2.x due to the inflexibility. I like a full screen.
3260: 1. Return to the older version
3261: 1: The close button. When a window is maximized, we should just be able to throw the mouse to a corner of the screen to immediately be on top of the close button. As it is we have to wrestle with the top bar. Also it's too big.
2: The top bar of opened windows. It's too thick, and it doesn't do much for the amount of space that it takes on screen, particularly when it's maximized. Change it or remove it.
3: The lower bar seems redundant, all those icons could easily be placed instead on the top bar, and with so many wide screen monitors in use these days, vertical bars should be explored instead.
Release your own distro.
3262: Throw Gnome 3.X in dustbin
Throw that dustbin out of universe
Continue development & support Gnome 2.x
I used to love Gnome, but the Gnome 3.x is a Dump Blond. look good, but there is nothing other than looks.
AND
Take seriously this feedback.
3263: revert back to the 2.x
consult users first instead of pushing design ideas that won't work
3264: Destroy gnome 3, the small experiences that I have had were horrendous!
see above (ditch gnome 3)
3265: 1. Improve performance
2. improve documentation
3. Increase cohesion across apps
3266: Offer extensive configuration and customization possibilities, needed for "power users" of a desktop.
Revive many of the features of GNOME2.
Support older and/or non-accelerated HW without limitations.
Better documentation, e.g. for gconf and all the options.
I've been using GNOME since it was introduced in Red Hat Linux up to Fedora 14. Since GNOME3 was introduced in Fedora 15, it has become completely unusable for me. A lot of people I know, most of them being experienced UNIX/Linux users/developers, seem to share this opinion.
With Fedora 15 I switched to Xfce and I'm very happy with it. I'm missing a few panel applets, but on the other hand the configuration is in ASCII (partly XML) files and not "hidden" anymore in gconf. For the first time, I could easily make an own desktop template for use across multiple systems. Given this feeling and the current direction of GNOME, I'll probably never switch back to GNOME.
3267: 1) Put the application menu back in the panel or at least allow it to reside there.
2) Easier customization of the desktop appearance, theme, and functionality.
3) Bug fixes.
Don't release a radically different environment when there's still a ton of bugs and very little ability to customize its looks and feel.
3268: Stability, clean design, and extensibility.
Please make it something stable. This is where the Windows desktop experience completely trumps *nix.
3269: 1. For users without a taskbar, window minimize buttons should minimize to an icon on the desktop instead of sending the window to /dev/null. I detest taskbars and refuse to use one (taskbars become useless somewhere around 20 windows, I typically have around 100 windows open).
2. See #1
3. Make it faster and smoother! (Not that it's bad now, but more is better)
1. On Gnome 3: I don't want a desktop designed for a smartphone on my main computer. A desktop computer is not a smartphone!
2. Please consider supporting Gnome 2 going forward for users who don't want Gnome 3.
3270: Reduce dependencies - it's way too big.
Drop the registry.
Don't try to create a GNOME version of every application you can think of. Why do you think this is even necessary?
Listen, if it's not too late. I've moved on to XFCE.
3271: Gnome keeps identically functioning data in more than one place. This results in changes sometimes appearing to be ignored. Consistancy is exceptionally important. Active settings should be kept in one place and one place only. A full documentation or unix-style reverse index of .gconf should be available.
Making things completely easy for uneducated users makes such things less accessible towards more educated users. This tends to make things more difficult for administrators. I'm all for making everything accessible, but too much "simplification" tends to actually make things more complicated. FWIW, I've been doing software development since IBM OS/360 days, 1973 or so.
3272: 1. Get rid of V3 - Start over (even v2 is FAR superior).
2. Simple isn't Stupid (except with respect to how gnome views things). Stop treating your users like they're stupid.
3. Stop creating "Eye Candy"/Bloatware and start making a stable, easy to use/change desktop.
With the KDE v4 fiasco, the desktop was yours for the taking. Many people switched to Gnome (v2) rather than put up with KDE v4. You blew it with v3. No benefit, user antagonistic, and unchangeable. This on top of seeing how the community STILL hates KDE v4.
V3 is forcing me to move (myself and my users) to LXDE & Xfce as more of the distros go with v3 out of the box (e.g. Mint announced today).
3273: Lighter weight. Less icons. Live(html/css/flash) desktop.
Keep up the awesome work.
3274: - configuration options
- give me my apps back
3275: use Qt
join kde
3276: Get rid of that f^%$#ing Gnome 3. Gnome 2.x was the best thing going for Ubuntu. While you're at it snuff Unity.
Get rid of that f^%$#ing Gnome 3. Gnome 2.x was the best thing going for Ubuntu. While you're at it snuff Unity.
3277: Stop the menu appearing on window border clicks if a window title bar is off the top of the screen. Incredibly annoying.
Apart from that, seems good most of the time.
Had a glance at GNOME 3 - given the choice I'd probably have that over Ubuntu Unity, which really annoys me, but I haven't had a chance to use it yet. Looks very nice, but seems to be a lot of reliance on 3D, so I hope it can work without that as I have several (maximum 3 year old) computers that can't do 3D well.
Please ensure that you don't alienate computer literate users while trying to redesign the system for others. Make sure there are options to re-enable features, rather than 'dumbing down' the interface.
3278: 1) Make a GUI tool to change the settings of GNOME so I don't have to code things like the following into BleedingEdge (Sourceforge Project):
sudo -u $ON_USER "DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout ":minimize,maximize,close"
2) Reduce the memory footprint of the Desktop environment comparable to LXDE.
3) Drop all of the fancy stuff that drags most machines to a crawl. (Compiz, Transparancy, etc.) I would rather have a fast,stable environment.
Don't follow the pack with the user interface. Think of usability in terms of the amount of effort required to accomplish a task. When I need a program in GNOME 2.8, I can click on "Applications, zig-zag the mouse to the correct directory and click a second time.
The alternatives which exist in Windows, KDE, Unity, etc. are horrible. You have to click on an icon, click in a box, type what you need (assuming you remember it), and click one last time. This method of running software is significantly more time consuming and requires more than twice the effort.
3279: stop pushing search over folder organization
fix bugs
easier manipulation of menus
Search is for when you have so much information organization is impossible. It works for the internet, on the desktop folders and files is a better paradigm stop messing with perfection.
3280: A method to edit the stuff configured/cached in the .gnome* directories or at least some better documentation on how to fix things.
Looking forward to upgrading to centos6 soon and how much has changed with gnome.
3281: Make my the old applets work with 3.x ..
Listen to your users more.
3282: a smarter way to organise windows,
easier customisation on menu items, look etc.
stay brave, and it'l be alright!
keep up the good work :)
3283: Stop making the interface completely useless for desktops. Support multilple monitors with new versions. Gnome 3 fails in both respects. Stop copying mac osx, its not the ideal, it fails in many ways.
3284: 1. Give me back my taskbar
2. Make it more configurable
3. Don't change things so that it takes longer to perform common tasks
I think you're going in the wrong direction. I would like to use GNOME, I really would, but every time I do I get immensely frustrated. (For example, it shouldn't be hard to open two terminal windows.)
3285: Integration of Gnome-Do as standard.
Implement the OpenSuse menu as standard.
Provide a simple option that allows the choice to not run all the glossy bells and whistles (something along the line of the latest 2.x without compbiz).
Progressive UI is great to aspire to but there is also the need for a functional desktop UI that is simple but provides all the benefits of using Gnome as a desktop platform.
3286: Please please please! Stay away from the apple/unity mikey mouse shit... It's useless and a pain to operate in a production environment. My granny or a 5 year old kid don't need to be able to use it....
3287: Make abiword prettier and less buggy.
Secure ripper for GNOME (like EAC or XLD).
Port Calibre to gtk.
Keep up the great work!
3288: I suspect that most of my gripes have been solved in Gnome 3 while introducing some new issues which will be resolved in a few versions. Then I will switch.
Keep doing what you believe in. You will find yourself in a world where Windows is suddenly replaced with some web-connected squares, Unity is sucking, KDE is just plain unfriendly and MacosX is too expensive.. Gnome has to be ready for that moment.
3289: Some extensions on by default.
Gnome-tweak-tool install by default and accessible in the configuration screen.
Keep going on with Gnome3 mostly in the same direction.
3290: make the interface less child like with big icons and more adult with text. Split off the interface for a tablet or netbook away from a desktop/laptop which has a bigger and higher resolution screen.
Create gnome-desktop and gnome-tablet. Make desktop aimed at the original gnome design and tablet more along the lines for smaller displays.
3291: Make it lighter.
3292: 1. With Gnome Shell I really miss Gnome panel, and ability to customize it to my liking.
2. Less dependencies to make it easier for package maintainers.
3. More beer to the developers
3293: Forget Gnome 3
Forget Gnome 3
3294: I would like the ability to right-click in a folder to change its view settings.
Nothing.
Nothing.
3295: 1) I would like the "Window Selector" panel item to be configurable.
Possible properties I would to be able to select are:
a) Show list of processes on mouse rollover of panel item
b) Always list all windows regardless of their current visibility
c) how windows prefixed by workspace
d) Show windows grouped by workspace
e) Show windows grouped by type (eg terminal)
2) Nautilus to have option of viewing current path in a cut-and-pastable format
3) Nautilus to have right-click option "Copy as...". This creates a copy of a file and renames it in one step.
I am very happy using Gnome. I find it easy to configure and lay out the way I want, and Nautilus is very nice. I especially like the tabbed feature, which I use all the time.
3296: Better support for Gaming.
Games are what drive desktop adoption.
3297: 1. Stop hiding configuration options that you feel will confuse the user. In other words, keep the defaults simple/sane, but allow your users to customize without having to dig through gconf.
2. Get rid of the gconf registry and move to plain text conf files.
3. Stop removing configuration options (goes back to #1)
Thank you for what is overall very good software. As a long time user, I am concerned with the general direction which feels too tablet focused. I believe having a tablet oriented interface is important, but it shouldn't be the main/default interface or focus (as Gnome 3.X so far seems to be).
3298: - Options for (automatically) arranging/sizing windows
3299: - more customisation (get the weather & time zone applets back !)
- smaller icons/fonts in file manager
3300: customizability (more keybinding options)
extend integration of programs (thunderbird + lightning, pidgin)
reduce memory consumption