What People Are Saying About GNOME [Part 4]
3301: Ignore the naysayers...you guys are doing fantastic work! I consider Ubuntu's Unity to be an extension of the Gnome platform as it only swaps out a few components such as gnome-shell. You continue to provide a very solid platform to serve as the basis for both gnome-shell and Unity. Keep up the great work!
3302: Flexible customization
3303: - even more customization than today with regards to wide-screen
- better/easier to sync settings with what KDE4.x uses (not only color/theme but also email-settings, contacts++)
- port Amarok to gtk - still more comfortable with amarok :)
I want a nice clean GREEN theme, not blue.
3304: 1) more options.
2) be able to hide the top and bottom panels
3) have a menu from the first screen (A bit more like gnome 2.x)
yes, make a really good configuration applet that will allow us to change the desktop to our way of working rather than the way you would like us to work.
3305: 1) zietgiest/tracker/nepomunk shou;d combine their efforts, shouldn't they?
2) after snapping windows we should still be able to resize them
3) keyboard navigation in the overview (ctrl+tab & arrows?)
your're all awesome; please work with the open community at large whenever you can (I know you try), and continue to work in the open! it's really the only way to go
3306: Just make it faster
Don't try to look like anyone else, just do your own thing.
3307: 1) Keep developing the 2.x look and feel for desktops and laptops
2) Make settings configuration more accessible
3) Speed up Compiz and its plugins (yeah, good luck with that)
Thank you. Seriously. Thank you!
Even if Gnome heads in Unity's direction, I am grateful every day for the interface and ease-of-use of Gnome.
3308: Add keyboard shortcuts for the aero-snap like functionality
3309: Use DockbarX, Add Mint Menu, Add Consistency to windows
Unfortunately, both DockbarX and Mint Menu are written using Python and are quite resource intensive.
Desktop and window management software has been around for more than 25 years now. Please do not reinvent the wheel, first fix bugs, then hone what you have to the point of perfection. Then, when successfully done, you can slowly improve on what you have using user FEEDBACK, not your hunch, or what you personally deem necessary or important. Removing Window control buttons, Changing button arrangements, meddling with panel placements and adding non-constructive eye candy don't fix to any of the usability issues that plague gnome. Please Keep things stable, reasonably customizable, fast, small, consistent, coherent and simple. Gnome still doesn't handle multi-monitor configs well, doesn't have a pleasing and really usable and characteristic theme, and still gets in my way of doing my work.
3310: memory footprint (responsiveness)
3311: The new Gnome 3 is worse then 2.xxx. The major improvments should not be so revolutionary as introduced through Gnome 3. It is better to improve the things under the hood then just rearranging the things in more beautiful but complicated way. Create software and GUI which helps the people to work and facilitates them to switch to Linux and Gnome. We need better Office, better picture editors, better movie players and in general better application software than a beautiful GUI.
3312: Support a power user interface, aka gnome 2.
Trim bloat.
Fix bugs.
I'll stay on gnome 2 until it is no longer supported, then I'll switch to xfce or lxde.
3313: Throw out new gnome3.
Establish some kind of community process that prevents things like gnome3 from happening.
Make documentation more accessible.
3314: Please continue to develop Gnome 2.x
3315: 1) More focus on the desktop (large screens)
2) Better compliance with QT/KDE
3) Better configuration options
The focus of the current gGNOME is on new technologies such as tablets/netbooks, touch & voice input,the cloud, high end graphics. This is great, but currently (and for some time ahead) most users will still have desktop/laptops, keyboard & mouse input and work locally with poor hardware. Also the state of these technologies (think of open source graphic drivers, web applications) aren't very powerful yet. I hope the GNOME team won't alienate this user base and let it work for the traditional technologies too.
3316: Globalmenu support
3317: Bring back the power off button in the menu without having to press alt
Bring back all the configuration options that are now missing from gnome 3 compared to gnome 2
Give me my dock applets back. I miss them.
3318: I think the interface of Gnome 2.x is really solid and doesn't need improvement.
I don't like gnome shell, because the upper left hand corner pulls down the menu, which is useless because you have to move the mouse all the way to the upper left and then down to the icon you want, or you could use the shortcut key to bring up the menu, and you might as well get rid of the upper left menu trigger. If the whole left side of the screen triggered the menu, that would be an improvement because you could move your mouse to the spot with the icon you want.
3319: Quit being retarded
3320: The need to find a program and or Home directory with as few mouse clicks as possible. Also with as little mouse movement as possible. For instance the "Activities" (Gnome3) needs to be on the same side as the "open windows" thing. It must also be possible to open two instances or more of the Home directory. In Gnome3 it seems to be just the one instance.
Also, do we really need icons the size of small elephants? We are not blind. Not only would it save space if they were smaller - the ones that are not so high definition wouldn't look so crap. It seems that the GUI is kind of half made for Touch screens and half for normal desktops. Maybe there could be two separate, dedicated versions for both.
1. When the "Open Windows" bit on the right has two many windows/virtual desktops open they get smaller. At some point it gets hard to make out what is actually on them. Maybe a good idea would be that, say for instance, after 8 have been opened any after that could be shown in a second column next to it.
2. It would be great if all the icons in the top taskbar were movable.
3. The firs instance of running Gnome3 could have an "Info Window" much like Linux Mint has. It could give a hint at how best to use the GUI and also (especially!) some key combos to do things faster - eg that the "windows" key opens Activities (much easier than moving the mouse all the way to the top left of the screen.), or the "Ctl/alt arrow up/down for stepping through the open windows. Also informing people that to switch off you need to press the "Alt" key to change the switch in the drop down menu from your name.
3321: The shell in Gnome 3 is simply *awful*. It's difficult for me to understand what motivated this change, and how it could be deployed in its current unstable form. Apart from hardware/stability and usability issues, it breaks with so many established (and time-tested!) GUI principles that there is probably no good way to "fix" it. The gnome shell needs to go away. That's all.
See above.
3322: 1. Give "Gnome fallback mode" as much importance as Gnome shell. In other words, publicly state that it's not going to go away and that it will be actively developed long-term. Give it another name besides "Gnome fallback mode."
I'm not going to change my workflow in order to accommodate Gnome 3 (or Ubuntu's Unity, for that matter). I'm going to switch to Xfce instead.
3323: GUI tools for configuration rather than the need to use text editors to manually modify configuration files. this is the one key factor I run into when setting up Linux systems for small businesses and attempting to get their buy in.
3324: Make the windowing look better
3325: The log out menu (more options)
Evolution (make it skinnier, use less resources)
Easier customization of themes and other visuals
Keep it up, guys! I love the current outlook.
3326: (This is for GNOME 2, of course.)
Better core GNOME application online help -- it's often very sparse.
Greater configurability in general (of the window manager and of core GNOME applications) -- e.g., if there's a way to specify default *size* of new gnome-terminal windows other than passing a --geometry argument, I haven't found it; that should be configurable along with other aspects of appearance and behaviour as part of the profile).
Can't think of a third.
I haven't used GNOME 3, but based on screenshots and descriptions, I am likely to switch to XFCE or LXDE or soemething else lightweight and more traditional if my preferred distributions stop supporting GNOME 2 easily.
(I *have* used KDE4, unfortunately. Same comments apply to KDE4 vs. KDE3, although I'm more comfortable with GNOME2 than any flavour of KDE.)
3327: -More customization
-Faster access to the dock
-Categories in the program list
Keep up the great work!
3328: Bring customization & flexibility back.
Stop assuming that everyone has the same workflow, or that forcing everyone into one is a good idea.
An option to enable global/persistent menus.
Remember, people use a DE to *get* *stuff* *done*. The more I have to deal with an interface, the less I'm doing productive stuff. Gnome has stopped feeling lightweight and unobtrusive and started to feel like a javascript shell running on top of a VM. Let me put my launchers, panels and task switchers where I like and stop assuming that I care about someone else's brilliantly designed DE layout.
3329: 1- better look (themes and windows)
2- Gnome-Panel in Gnome 3.0 more easy to access
3- ?
3330: little bugs in the network manager. It mostly gets the job done, but sometimes it displays info that is out of sync.
I don't ever want to use Evolution or Empathy (I use GMail), and I wish they would stay out of the way unless specifically started by me.
On a normal desktop/laptop machine, the general interface of 2.x was great. Don't innovate for innovation's sake, and definitely don't innovate away from something that is great.
3331: 1. Bring back min and max buttons on windows manager (I have been told this is a gnome issues).
2. Allow better use of stacking windows in the desktop (sometime virtual desktops are not going to work.
3. Allow logging of status messages.
Rock On ! I have tried unity and it makes me shudder. Gnome 2.xx was the most functional desktop I have ever used. Hopefully over time gnome 3.xx will be the same. Like with all changes I am sure there will be an adjustment.
3332: Tough question, hard for me to distinguish pure "GNOME" versus what is custom to the Ubuntu distribution.
With that being said, I rely on gnome terminal rather heavily. But still haven't gotten use to using the page up/down keys for tab navigation. I still prefer shift+arrow navigation for my terminal tabs (it just seems more natural).
I'm not afraid to adapt and change. But, for the most part, I need my desktop to support me in what I want to do, w/o getting in the way.
Obviously there are different target audiences out there.
3333: Don't try to force an interface designed for smaller screens or touch screens onto the desktop. It doesn't work well with a mouse, and its a step backwards in my opinion for productivity on the desktop.
3334: Make it less awful. I've always customized GNOME to my needs, and now customizing has to be done by editing the config files.
Focus on making it more useful for people who want to get work done, and less on making it look glitzy for new users. I liked it for about 5 minutes, but once I actually started to try and do work, gnome-shell takes every opportunity to get in the way and make things take longer.
Bring back the option to have multiple windows shown on gnome-panel's panels. It makes switching between programs & using shortcuts much easier for those who don't like making several mouse movements and clicks every time they want to change windows. Maybe there are easier, less arcane ways of changing between things, but clearly they aren't intuitive enough for anyone to know what they are.
I know you don't want the project to stagnate, but there is a limit as to what a desktop needs to do. It needs to help you get things done. Once you have a good environment that does that, it's time to polish what you have, not reinvent the desktop. With heavy modification and extensions, GNOME3 is only just bearable. That's not how it should be.
3335: * Configurability of Gnome Shell (Official, polished gui for changing things like min/max buttons, themes, UI elements etc without dconf editor nor tweak tool nor just untarring into applicable directories)
* More options with regard to desktop effects (this is eyecandy and understandably low priority for a new release)
* Restoration of all legacy keyboard shortcuts (I'm looking at you, "delete" key!)
I have been using Gnome Shell non-stop since the Gome3 release - first under 11.04, and then under Arch.
I like it much better than Unity, and I have really wanted to love it -- but it feels unfinished. And I suspect that is probably the case, and is directly responsible for quite a lot of the negative feedback from the community.
**Just yesterday** I installed KDE 4.7 alongside Gnome 3 -- and am giving KDE the first real chance to win ownership of my desktop that I've ever gien it**
You don't have to do everything *I* want, and you don't have to do everything that everyone else wants, either. But if the current state of Gnome Shell really does represent something that you think is feature complete, I think you folks *really* need to try finding some middle ground with the comments from the community.
3336: Gnome 3 performance with full screen video - gnome-shell takes up an entire core of a dual-core system during full screen video playback (not counting VLC's CPU usage), while XFCE use nearly as much CPU time.
Lack of customizability - window decorations take too much room by default, and I would like to reduce the size.
Hidden (by default) interfaces - shutdown should not be hidden; other things which require discovery by holding ALT or some other key modifier should be laid out in plain sight. Accelerator keys should be underlined in menus without holding ALT (or at least preference should exist).
Removing things for the sake of "de-cluttering" the interface is not always a good thing, particularly for finding functionality in the system. I should not have to use google to figure out how to shut down (and not suspend) the system.
3337: 1 - More configuration options in Gnome 3.x
2 - Better fallback for older graphics cards
3 - I'm not sure
3338: Dump Gnome 3, go back to Gnome 2
Listen to what people are saying about Gnome 3 and act on it
3339: Deeper configuration options; more customization of the desktop. More utilities around graphical theming and the integration of addons.
A better fallback desktop environment; when my amd radeon driver craps out in Ubuntu it would be nice to be able to solve the problem without dropping to a shell prompt.
Create an easy-to-access preference for adding a shut down option to the user menu, either as an addition or replacement for the current hibernate/sleep option.
Don't let people drive you into doing things that don't feel right, but listen to feedback (you seem to be doing this already). Deliver what users need, not what they ask for. I think GNOME is on the right track, the improvements from 3.0 to 3.2 show that the project is moving forward.
3340: Add configurability, maybe with an option like "Check this box to enable extra configuration options for your desktop."
Make themes more consistent, better integration to download and apply new themes.
Don't screw with a good thing. (IE: Unity)
Good job.
Stability and usability are more important than flashy, so while flashy is nice it should come as a second priority.
3341: don't depend so much on graphic card drivers (as they seem to remain so buggy)
fix the .gvfs connection to FTP to finally work seamlessly...
Good luck for your experiments, and for changing the gnome lovers habits. To ease the transitions it's important to evolve incrementaly and to be careful about the little details which are really important to some people instead of brutally crushing them. Open your ears, especially to your user base.
3342: Make gnome-tweak a default part of gnome settings.
The icons that get revealed when you get to the lower right corner, when you hover over them the text for the icon you hover over appears but the icon itself moves away to the side, pretty annoying when you're trying to click it. I'd like this to work somewhat differently, maybe the text always being there, or the text appearing above it or something and the icons never moving, not sure what would work best.
I'd like the list of your multiple virtual screens in your activities screen to not hide itself half. Right now you have to hover over it and it slides out a bit, I'd rather have them fully visible all the time there.
Keep up the good work! Gnome 3 is by far the best desktop environment I've ever used.
3343: 1. I would merge the application menu (File, Edti, ...) and the application title bar and even integrate them with the top menu bar just like Unity does. This saves quite a lot of screen space.
3344: The only improvements I would like to see are for the 2.x UI. I will not be using 3.x.
I'm holding on to GNOME 2.x for the next while, and I will then abandon GNOME. I haven't quite decided where I will go. I am testing new systems as I have the opportunity.
3345: Gnome 2.x is perfectly fine for me - it does what I need it to go and doesn't get in the way of my work.
Don't make change just for the sake of change. There's no shame in sticking with what works.
3346: 1) Help system startup time in GNOME 2.0
2) Dev attitude towards users
3) Dev attitude towards handling bug reports
1) Listen to users
2) Change the handling of bug reports to be less off-putting to contributors.
3) Don't make disruptive changes to the desktop without a project being successful during an incubation period.
4) Don't be afraid to admit a new approach is wrong and return back to the point where the mistake was made.
3347: First, scrap the 3.x branch of GNOME, and start again with 2.x.
Then add an option for a Mac-style menu bar at the top of the screen.
Scrap the GNOME 3.x user interface. Really, it's terrible. You were getting much closer to a good user interface with 2.x, then you've gone off into the weeds with this abomination.
Look, change is neither inherently good or bad. But change for the sake of change without a coherent reason for the change and a good plan for the change is bad - and that's where you are now. You've taken many years of experience with how users interact with computers and thrown it away in favor of "new, shiny" - and not even Apple can get that right every time.
3348: Revert to the 2.x series and start improving it incrementally.
Add back the option to display directory names in Nautilus without hacking into a config file.
Add back options like do nothing when closing a laptop display.
Your products exists to make computers easier to use. That should be your goal, not to make the Gnome Desktop easier to use by making it harder to do anything (which seems to be your current goal).
3349: Keep improving 2x.
Inventing new ways of accessing the same information is not helpful.
Gnome 3 is pretty eye csndy that restricts the options and makes the used spend time trying to learn how to make it useable.
3350: Make it faster.
Kill nautilus spatial mode.
Integrated DLNA controller (and a renderer would be nice).
3351: include shutdown as an option in the "me menu" (without holding down the [alt]-key)
"activities" should not use all screen space.
include "intellihide" as an option for top-panel and friends.
3352: Gnome 3 was a tremendous step backwards in usability. I tried to use it. I tried to like it. I tried it for two horrible weeks. Then I switched to XFCE, because I could not get my work done in Gnome 3.
3353: stop config option removal schemes
3354: 1. Simpler navigation to oft used apps
2. 'classic' X-Windows icon behavior
3. Simplified customization
Determine the platform you want to address. A desktop should be different than a tablet but still be able to be usable without requiring the user to become an expert to use the system. For expert users it should be easy to avoid the eye candy for newbies.
3355: 1) Option to undo after file delete or move.
2) It's difficult to have dekstop icons properly aligned, I'd like to have every icon snapped in it's own "virtual square", like if they where on a checkboard, exactly like Windows does. Moreover, i don't like mounted device icons appearing on desktop: if you have a lot of icons, it's difficult to find the device to open or unmount it.
Icon alignment on desktop is much messier than Windows,
3) Gedit is too much a basic editor, it's really unusable to do anything but trivial tasks, it should have at least regexp search and replace. To let you understand what I mean, when I was on KDE I liked Kate a lot.
I didn't see Gnome 3.2, but I tryed Gnome 3 and it was unusable for me, it was slowing me down. I'm thinking of going back to KDE when no distro will support Gnome 2.X. You should really talk to users (heavy users, not casual ones) and ask them what they want and how they use the desktop before making such radical changes.
3356: 1). I would make GNOME 3.x more like the older 2.x in terms of customization and configurability.
2). I would make the new style an option, not the default.
3). I would integrate GNOME with Compiz, moreso than it is. I'm fairly satisfied with this however.
Just what I justed above.
3357: To me, this is like asking what kinds of painkillers you want to prescribe a terminally ill cancer patient.
I think GNOME's time came and went. I would abandon this old sense of Windowing environments and go managed. To make design separate from code or to separate the UI from the OS seems old-fashioned now.
3358: After a brief attempt at using Gnome 3.0:
Need more visual clues - too many things can only be found if you know where to look.
Ability to control if a new instance is started by default - eg terminal or file browsers need to start a new instance.
I prefer to do most interactions via a mouse. Having to guess what an application might be called and typing its name is REALLY ANNOYING !
See previous
3359: Not sure I like with way desktops are going (Unity). I've tried to get used to it, but find it weird.
3360: 1. More advanced options, so i dont need to edit config files.
2. Default theme, i dont touch my screen so i dont need big buttons, it looks nice, but takes space.
3. Dont like Empathy, Pidgin suit me better, mostly because of protocols and functions.
3361: Stick with version 2.x and FIX its bugs. Or better yet, clone KDE 3.x. (I used to use KDE until v.4 which I hated. So I switched to Gnome2.x. But now, Gnome3.x is even worse than KDE4. Maybe ZevenOS and or OpenBeOS will save the day?
Try listening to your users. A lot of people have spoken quite clearly that they hate Gnome 3.x. I've tried it on Fedora15, and it always CRASHES on me. I hate the interface. I like having taskbar applets in sight all of the time (like CPU temperature and CPU frequency, current weather conditions, etc.) Stop trying to clone Microsoft v.8 and trying Apple's Ipad. My Fedora 15 box now runs KDE4.x while my main system runs F15 with Gnome2.x.
3362: I do not care for the design of Gnome 3 at all - go back to 2 and add features to that.
3363: 1. Gnome lost a lot of configuartion options when moving from v 2.x to 3.x (e.g. it's a PITA to change themes, and why must I have that accessibility menu in front of me all the time when I never, ever need it?). I would like to see at least the same level of user-friendly customization options return to G3.
2. I like a neat desktop as much as the next guy, but there's a fine border between a neat place and a wasteland. G3 has crossed it. There is no user interface on the desktop at all. You can't even right-click on it anymore to bring up a menu, such as to change the background image, or open a terminal (one of my favorite features, inconsistently implemented in some distros). Give us the option to do something with all that wasted space.
3. Reread item #1. Everything about Gnome should be easily customizable. If we want our desktops to all have the same, consistent look and feel, we'd be on Macs. Know your target audience.
It's just my impression. but Gnome 3 seems to have touch-friendlyness, such as for a tablet device, as a major design goal. If I'm wrong about this, please forgive me, but it seems that many compromises were made to keep the UI as tablet-friendly as possible. I , for one, would love to have a full version of Gnome on a tablet, but it will never happen. Not ever. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice dream and all, but there is a difference between dreams and reality, and we have special, safe places reserved for those poor souls who can't tell the difference.
Among the general population, Gnome 3 is already a marginally deployed desktop environment. A tablet market segment of Gnome would never be more than a margin of the margin, at best. Stop worrying about edge cases, and please don't bother optimizing Gnome anymore for a platform that it will never be deployed on. Forget the tablet dreams, and just focus on making Gnome the best desktop user interface you can.
3364: Nicer graphics (esp. games)
I think Gnome is getting better all the time. Just needs to look better.
3365: In Gnome3,replace icons when searching with text and tiny icons like it used to be.
Put bar back on the top so I can stick stuff on it.
Allow users to make a veriety of changes so we can have individualistic looking desktops.
I know your develepers don't like us to tweak our desktops,(Yeah,I read a blogging Gnome3 developer say as much.),but they need to relize it's our computer,not their computer.
That being said,if I want my desktop to look like xyz,that's my right. if i want semi transparent taskbars,that option better be there..If I want to stick everything on my upper task bar,well that's my thing.If I want a flaming docket at the bottom...Well,you get the picture.
Linux is about choice,but with each release of certain desktops, they are becoming more like appliences and less like computing devices..Unity and Gnome3 are perfect examples.
Don't behave like Shuttleworth and the Apple people with their "The desktop has to look like this and if you don't like it, leave attatudes."
A lot of people have followed suite and are in fact leaving Gnome3 and Ubuntu because they don't like the changes. I'm one of those.
When Mavrick Meerkat is no longer supported,I'll look to KDE,Enlighitment or XFCE for a desktop...Gnome3 has a chance to redeam itself..Time will tell if it does.
3366: Less dependencies.
Lower cpu/ram/hdd space usage.
Prettier default icons/UI (it's the first thing newcomers will notice and appreciate), but not like KDE ;D!
Less dependencies. I prefer Fluxbox+wbar+conky over the another-OS-worth-of files that my package manager offered me last time I tried to install GNOME.
3367: great job. don't worry about the turkeys
3368: Prettier, more easily themed
Stability of notifications in panel
3369: - I want a good system monitor extension for gnome shell, preferably including CPU frequency scaling, too.
I really hate Unity (mostly for the stupid menu bar), but was pleasantly surprised to discover I actually really like gnome shell. Please keep doing your thing there, and use Unity as a counter-example of how the desktop should be done.
3370: 1) I'm actually using XFCE right now, but I would be using Gnome 3.0 if it didn't exacerbate some problem with Nvidia driver (black windows when more than a few are open). A workaround for that problem would be #1.
2) More customization built-in. Extensions are OK, but clumsy to manage currently.
3) Improve speed of graphics on older hardware (I have Quadro NVS 285 on Core 2 Duo)
The continuing reduction of configuration options has been distressing. I like the usability of Gnome 3, but I want to be able to tweak some things to work closer to the way I prefer.
I really like the searchable app menu in Gnome 3, one of things I like about Windows 7 when I'm forced to use it.
An example of something I'd like to configure: want the bar on the top of the screen to auto-hide. I want more themes (I'm not really a white on black background kind of guy).
Like what I've seen so far of changes going into 3.2.
3371: Change it back to the old style. Keep working on the underpinnings. Accept my thanks for many years of good computing.
Don"t pay any attention to me. I am old and the electronic world is new every nanosecond.
3372: Improve multi-monitor support; Keep "classic" desktop as an option
3373: - Drag windows to other desktops. Edge triggered.
- Nautilus needs an undo feature for copy, move, rename etc.
- When in activities mode, clicking on the desktop should show the desktop and do the same as show desktop function.
Keep up the great work!
3374: 1. Control-center with tons of config options like the wonderful capplets we had in GNOME 1
2. Polish nautilus and panel to make them full of shortcuts, links etc. and give them really meaningfull dialogs with tons of options (admit it, Windows 7 explorer is much better)
3. Make compiz the default WM
Stop treating your users as dumb assholes that can't use/understand config options
Stop thinking that locking the desktop is the way to build something that will be accepted by big corporations
Stop destroying the once wonderful GNOME desktop that power users used to love by making it a dumb tablet OS for dumb and passive content consumers like the ones that toy play with iPads
3375: 1. Change back to having title bars with a color!! With grey-on-grey (default in GNOME 3.0) I couldn't tell which window had focus.
2. Include GNOME-Tweak-Tool as part of the default, make available under Settings (perhaps Advanced Settings?)
3. Include a Logout and Power Off item in the action menu.
1. Do NOT get rid of the Glossy theme, ever. I was really really unhappy with GNOME 3 until I figured out how to use GNOME-Tweak-Tool to set this as my window decoration.
2. I like pie.
3376: Better documentation. Better documentation. Better documentation.
I really believe GNOME is headed in the right direction. As an Ubuntu user, I've always enjoyed the versatility of GNOME 2.x and am always installing gnome-shell immediately after a new/upgraded installation to avoid using Unity at all costs.
3377: - Focus follow mouse
- Hidden top bar
- Customization settings
Don't be blinded and really listen to your users.
3378: Better support for multi-screen setups.
My current screen is 2560x2640
3379: - run without graphical errors (does not work for me right now, therefore unity is my current desktop)
- loads of more and easy configuration options (gnome 3.2 is nice for standard users, but power users have other needs, which should be configurable through the system menu)
Gnome3 was a bold move. Stay on course, but listen to your userbase in terms of what needs to be made better.
3380: I would not change it as I find what suits my needs best in other desktops. If at some point I had no choice, then I guess I would ask for more configurability and less hand-holding. As I do not use it regularly and just check it from time to time to see how it evolves I am hard pressed to find a third thing, but kid me would probably like a less spartan aproach to its looks. As I said, I just use KDE when I have the choice to use a GNU/Linux system, which alrady provides what I want, but I guess changes in these directions would make it more likely for me to use GNOME in a future.
3381: Empirical usibility studies!
Usebility without closing out experts by dullness.
Never superimpose some "best practice usage" onto people.
Respond to users. Take empirical results serious, including this survey. However, dare to let critics formulate the items.
3382: Just one, to be honest: 'Fallback' option should become real alternative and not just a 'last resort' stripped version. I understand the need to rework the libraries, but why force all users to embrace the tablet design? Desktops are neither tablets nor smartphones...
Thanks for your time and effort in building and maintaining GNOME :)
3383: Put back the option to disable screensaver/sleeping. When I want the monitor off, I'll turn the darn thing off.
Put back the minimise and power off buttons by default.
Make more features adjustable from the GUI, without having to install things like tweaktools
Great work generally, but PLEASE don't restrict useability to what you think it should be.
3384: Continued availability of the 2.x model. I spend a month trying to use Gnome-3 but ended up downdating all my machines from Fedora-15 to Fedora-14 because Gnome-3 was unsuited to my work patterns (I am a developer who created the R language and contributed the original special function library to Gnumeric). I am now looking for an alternative distribution so that I have a path forward that I can live with.
Before making major incompatible changes, find out whether users want those changes.
3385: Move the unity bar to the bottom of the screen and have it display all the time (similar to how it is by default in Mac OS)
Bring back the title bar rather than displaying it in the top panel
Easier customization
functionality > beauty
3386: Make settings as easy to change in GNOME 3 as they were in GNOME 2 - wallpaper, panels, etc; and add useful panel applets back such as the system and sensor monitor applets
Make GNOME 3 honor existing GNOME 2 settings (see above)
Make GNOME 3 not suck as bad as it does overall.
You jumped the shark with GNOME 3. GNOME 2 was a good improvement over 1, but 3 is just horrible.
3387: 1) Stop dumbing down the user interface. Stop reducing configurability.
Having a "simple vs advanced" view or option set is okay (hide/unhide
stuff), but NOT actually removing options and reducing
configurability. Bad long term trend.
2) Stop ignoring and even pissing on real world users. Stop hanging out
with only like minded friends and colleagues. You have a sheep herd
problem.
3) Don't be arrogant Apple chasing hipsters. You aren't Apple and
ordinary Apple users won't use Linux regardless. You are alienating
your base. Really.
Don't abandon the desktop. Tablets are a fad and although smartphones are a real tidal wave, desktops and laptops are NOT going away. Keyboards (real ones) and mice are NOT going away. People still need to create and do real work.
So remember who you brought you to the dance. Don't abandon the desktop.
3388: Poweroff button in Gnome-shell
2*2 workspace in Gnome-shell
stablizing the gnome-shell, i like it
Why so many people hate gnome-shell? I like it. Fix all the problems and keep it stable.
3389: 1. Choice of interface, gnome shell is not for me.
2. Documentation, what there is, it's great. But it always seems to leave off before it gets to what I need and I have to resort to reading the source. This is more the "standard" applications than the gnome environment itself.
3. Memory leaks. I have to restart gnome every few weeks to clear some cache or something to get my speed back. This is on a modern computer.
Really *ask* your users what they want before spending time creating something. I've been a GNOME user since 0.25, and will stop using it when I can no longer get gnome 2.x. I tried for months to like gnome 3, but it makes me spend *way* too much time finding things and thinking about how to use my computer. I need ready access to more applications than fit on the sidebar, I don't remember application names, only icons and positions in the menu (dyslexia). I want my applets that tell me what's going on, and I don't care about the social features.
Your "One size fits all" no longer fits me. This is one of the hardest things to say after years evangelizing how great gnome is to all my co-workers and friends. Gnome 2.x was the perfect desktop from a usability standpoint for me. Gnome 3 is a buggy, laggy, frustrating nightmare. And the developer community doesn't seem to care.
3390: 1. Changing window focus and starting a program should be two different GUI operations on a desktop. The current system is ok for tablets, but on a desktop you want more control. Right clicking is cumbersome.
2. See above.
3. See above.
The fallback mode should be more obvious for those who don't like the gnome-shell.
3391: 1. Get rid of wayland
2. Get rid of GTK
3. Less resource use. Especially screen real estate.
See #1 above. Get rid of Wayland.
3392: Get rid of the silly GnomeShell, the older interface is far more useful for the end-user.
Sort out the damned IndicatorApplets, as they constantly crash upon startup.
Make the GUI as memory efficient as possible, as it can be a real problem on low-spec netbooks.
The GnomeShell was a terrible idea, you should kill it with fire.
Apart from that though, keep up the good work guys, would never consider moving away from GNOME.
3393: Better 3rd party application support
More informative communication w/ developers, less buck passing and real answers when you ask questions on the forum. Tired of snarky answers and a general F off and die attitude.
Come down off the mountaintop and LISTEN TO YOUR USERS.
Come down off the mountaintop and LISTEN TO YOUR USERS.
Come down off the mountaintop and LISTEN TO YOUR USERS.
3394: Stop dumbing it down.. this is why I still primarily use KDE on my main machines and only use Gnome on mostly servers that aren't running Xwindows full time. Give users the power to tweak things like KDE.. sure, go ahead and make them accessible through say "Advanced" tabs, buttons, etc. but make it easy to use.
3395: Better documentation
Simplified installation of extensions
More customization options in System Settings
I don't care if you hide customization options from the masses but let power users know where they are and document what they do. Otherwise, keep up the good work. Gnome 3.x is great!
3396: - Reduce the number of clics to work and the usage of the keyboard in Gnome 3
- allow the desktop to act as a folder without extension
- include AWN by default in gnome 3
3397: Being able to change more than three things in GNOME Shell.
One size won't fit all, no matter how hard you try. People just adjust to something they don't like. Quote: "I don't like Unity, but I'd rather use that than GNOME Shell."
3398: Put settings from Gnome Tweak Tool into System Settings.
Global Menu
Reduce padding on some windows, so I don't have windows on my netbook that are bigger than the screen.
3399: Color calibration support (better)
Better performance in small machines
Dual head support (better, now I'm using nvidia's twinview)
An alternative to Adobe's Lightroom is still needed for serious photography. I know many pro photographers in Costa Rica that haven't fully let got the "other" OS, just because of this.
I do hope for darktable...
3400: 1) not having to make a transition to Gnome 3
2) not having to make a transition to Gnome 3
3) not having to make a transition to Gnome 3
Firstly, you have to understand that all the above answers are in reference to Gnome 2. Gnome 2 was a good product. There was ease of use that KDE3 didn't offer, but still the capability to customize a few things to a personal preference.
I tried Gnome 3 and couldn't even get the dang monitor config to any other refresh rate than 60 Hz and I can see the 60 Hz flicker. I much prefer 85 Hz refresh rates and then the image is rock solid to me.
Once I couldn't get a screen config that was comfortable to use, any other changes that might or might not have been improvements are lost BUT I'd be inclined to believe that if one cannot change something as simple as the monitor refresh rate then a good number of other things that I'd have wanted to personalize are likely lost as well.
To be perfectly honest, I've looked at KDE4 and Gnome 3 and find both of them have gone off in directions likely designed more to differentiate the two products rather than to really improve the usability of either. Example, KDE3 had a desktop program called Kpager that showed a reduced version of each desktop complete with an actual reduced image of the actual windows on each desktop. The new pager shows the desktops and shows that there are windows on each of them but the only information in each mini-window is an icon to indicate what program is running there. The hint of the contents of the window are lost. That's a downgrade in KDE as well.
So, since both major interfaces are taking directions that are unsuitable, I and several friends I know are looking for alternatives. God help us but there's even a hint of looking towards Windows 7 and I haven't owned a version of Windows since 98SE.