What People Are Saying About GNOME [Part 4]

3401: 1) more efficient use of screen real-estate - less empty space in window decorations, smaller buttons and controls
2) better management of multiple displays (although this has improved tremendously in the last 5 years)
3) better overall UI consistency across applications

bring back the traditional WIMP interface as an option, for users who prefer it to Gnome Shell

3402: 1. Gnome 3
2. Gnome 3
3. Gnome 3

Gnome 3: what were you smoking when you designed it?

3403: Open terminal in right-click context menu
Gnome 2 behaviour for virtual desktops reinstated
Re-enable ability to move around top/bottom menu panels with lock/unlock behaviour

Give the fallback desktop the same level of configuration options as Gnome 2.

3404: - better flexibility of components
- more configuration options
- not creating phone of desktop

Do note that my Android phones have more configuration options than GNOME 3.0-3.2 (Ubuntu 11.10 and FC16beta1).

Its quite disappointing when you can't right click on desktop and create shortcut.

3405: Better documentation of configuration files.

3406: More options available, especially for more advanced settings

3407: Make cursor sizing actually work - I am old enough to meed a HUGE cursor!

Nihil Carborundom Illegetemati est

3408: write man pages for all the gnome commands
less breakage between versions, or just tell people what's up?
better binary nvidia support (no more video tearing, twin view)

ah whatever, i gave up

3409: 1. Persuade the Fedora team/community to make Gnome more friendly, like what Linux Mint does.
2. Make it so the main panel works well whether it's on the side of the screen, at the top, or on the bottom.
3. Wobbly windows in Gnome Shell.

Keep making it easy for new users, but don't forget power users. We're people too.

3410: I would
redesign nautilus UI
rethink some concpts of nautilus
hide all stuff a normal user does not need by default in nautilus (like OS X does)
use a less fluffy default theme than the most distros

- please go for better integration of the cool features of the underlying OS (fs snapshots for example)
... a desktop env should make all those cool possibilities available for use by the average user and come with sensible defaults while doing so.
give great attention to "learn once - apply everywhere"-consistency.
with great defaults set most users should be happy but you should think of the power users aswell. most people who use linux or bsd choose it because they know what they are doing and want to customize their system to fit their exact needs. dont scare away these users. how about a "pro-mode" where much more config options are available?

3411: 1-The Dock always visible
2.Add Theme chooser
3.Add Screensaver

Please listen to the community.

3412: Gnome needs to either return to Gnome2 sanity with Compiz goodness, or die.

Congrats on going from the best DE to the very worst. Being worse than Unity is an epic accomplishment.

3413: 1. Make the launcher panel accessible in a sort of "hidden dock" manner rather than forcing me to go into the window preview interface to launch common apps.

2. Configurable option for restoring the traditional pure ALT+Tab window switching rather than application switching. Coincientally this is one of the few things I also hate about OS X. There was a gnome-shell extension for this but it just crashes my gnome-shell for some reason.

3. Configurable target corner for notifications, I have muscle memory and existing targets in the bottom right of my screen. Personally I find the bottom left of my screen a completely unused target zone.

You guys are doing a fantastic job creating an innovative desktop that is a pleasure to use - even as a power user. I was apprehensive about switching to GNOME 3, thinking that it might be too much of a departure from my old desktop. After committing to learning it I have become completely comfortable with it. Despite the changes mentioned in my answers to the previous question I definitely would not trade GNOME 3 to go back to GNOME 2. Keep up the great work!

3414: add mouse movement to default button

3415: tailor it for a tablet

3416: Give the user the option to use Gnome 2 style with panel applets - the "fall back" mode is a disaster.

Incorporate Compiz-fusion (or offer it as an alternative)

Make native compiz like actions (cube, transparency etc).

Offer more and better themes (for window decorations etc)

3417: More configuration options, even if hidden by an "advanced" button -- nothing like the dconf/gconf/windows registry mess, though.

If making more options in the configuration dialogs is not a possibility, at least document said options properly. Documenting in somehiddenplacethatonlygnomedevelopersknow.com is as bad as not writing any documentation at all.

3418: Really, just bring back any options that were in 2 that are not in 3. This will no doubt happen as 3 becomes more mature.

Also, MOVE SETTINGS OUT OF gconf/arcane locations and into accessible, documented GUIs. It's ridiculous that I have to use gnome-tweak-tool or gconf-editor just to change some simple desktop option, like displaying seconds on the clock.

Finally, I'd like to see the overlay become a bit more robust, i.e. something to equal gnome-do, as far as typing commands goes. A keyboard equivalent of Ctrl-click (open new instance of application) would be much appreciated, since Enter just switches to an application.

Since you guys probably don't hear it enough, I really love the direction you're going in with gnome 3. It's so nice to actually see some fresh ideas in desktop design (dynamic workspaces are awesome). It really just needs to be a more polished/feature complete, but it's already great and will only continue to get better.

3419: Bring back the options for the standard task and menu bars and/or make it easier to revert. I hate Gnome Shell.

It is OK to try new things, but it is best to make those things optional and still support traditional interfaces. Choice is good!

Thanks for working so hard for all of us. Although I don't like the default interface in Gnome 3, I recognize and appreciate the work.

3420: more customizability. one of the reasons I went back to kde was that I could fine-tune the user interface and program behavior more.

better organized settings. the options are horribly organized and confusing. I almost always end up clicking two or three different things before I remember where the setting I want to change is, or remembering that gnome doesn't let you change that.

looser integration. in an ideal world i would be able to use gnome and kde applications in any desktop environment without breaking things and without having to pull a massive list of desktop-specific dependencies (try installing nautilus in kde and see what happens).

the more flexible a user interface is the better. i actually like gnome 3, but i will probably never use it again (i tried it briefly) because there are a few small but deal-breaking things it won't let me change.

3421: 1. Quit trying to limit desktop UIs to the abilities of a tablet.
2. Stop trying to change things for change's sake
3. Get rid of the application-menu-at-the-top.

3422: 1. Make more of the activities view keyboard-accessible. Once the view is open, it doesn't seem to be possible to switch windows, select workspaces or interact with the dash without using the keyboard. Being forced to use the mouse for these tasks is jarring.

2. Fix the shutdown menu item. Having to hold down alt is neither discoverable nor user-friendly.

3. The application menu in the top panel needs to either become useful or go away. I personally don't see how it could become useful, since I detest application menus which aren't inside the application's own windows. Jump lists in Windows 7 are only marginally more useful, in the cases where the application's icon is pinned and the list can be used as bookmarks or to launch the application in a specific way. A menu which is reliant on the application being both running and focused, yet not attached to the application's window, strikes me as an entirely pointless addition.

The application list in the overview is not user-friendly. A big scrolling grid of uncategorised icons is not a good way to present things to users because it's impossible to find things quickly. I accept that the old pop-up menu system may not work well on touch screens, but there must be another way to approach this, because in its current state I find myself avoiding the application list at all costs. If it wasn't possible to pin favourites to the dash, or type into the search box to filter the list, I would probably have ditched GNOME 3 entirely - the ability to quickly launch applications is fundamental to usability!

3423: 1. I would make the developers a part of the core target audience; this does not have to mean dismissing the tablet crowd it may be the future, but the future is not now.
2. I would make almost everything configurable, although most of it could be through gconf
3. I would make sure everything was properly documented, so the users could decide how their computer works

3424: 1. Make a "power users" setting.
2. Make it easier to find and run applications that are not used very often.
3. Make it easier run applications that are used often.

3425: I want a desktop interface. I don't want to look at a smart phone or tablet interface blown up on a 24 inch monitor.
I want configuration options..lots of them.
Don't bury configs in binary blobs.

I have no need for any small touch screen devices. If gnome continues to abandon the desktop to focus on small touch screen devices then I will have no use for gnome.

3426: That it does not break functionality of existing applications to the point that the desktop becomes unusable. When I last tried it, I could e.g. not see my pidgin status icon change as it was hidden in the auto-hiding bar at the bottom of the screen. Also there were lots of graphical glitches.

I'd make it a desktop for a _desktop computer_. A desktop machine is no tablet, no smartphone, it has different requirements and right now, I miss a usable and well integrated desktop system on GNU/Linux.

I'd make it a LOT more customizable. Instead of hiding everything and/or confining options to gconf/dconf I'd have them presented to the user as proper configuration options.

I actually thought Gnome3 was going into a good direction when I used a Beta build. In that build the gnome-shell had a multi-column layout of icons in the launch-bar on the left so that I could fit more applications in there. Also, the desktops were arranged in 4 tiles, giving a better overview than the current list and it had recently accessed documents right there to open them. It was a bit unresponsive, had too few customization options and was way less integrated and polished an experience when compared to Gnome2. However, somehow the nice features got kicked and the problems were not addressed before its (imho premature) release.

The best suggestion I can offer would be to give Gnome3 unstable-developers-only-beta status. Release a maintenance version of Gnome2, make major distributions keep Gnome2 and offer Gnome3 as the unfinished alternative that it seems to be.

3427: 1. Default to a usable desktop, not a bunch of oversized icons.
2. See above
3. See above

Go back to the GNOME 2 desktop. GNOME 3 is awful. I switched back to using KDE because of it. I want a task bar, not a bunch of oversized icons. I don't know anyone who loaded the defaults in Fedora 15 and stayed with it. People do not want this!!!

3428: Make it easy to create one's own themes
An easy way to manage icons in Gnome 3 for non-Gnome 3 apps (eg. Lotus Sametime)
The ability to put labels on workspaces

Keep being awesome :)

3429: eliminate "eye candy" tendencies
improve energy saving

hey folx, keep away from "unity" style pleaz^^

3430: 1.- A single way to switch language writing, instead of one for layout (ES, EN, GR...) and another for choosing different complex writing methods (japanese, unicode, etcetera, using ibus for example).
2.- I like the menu for starting my apps, but I would love to also have a way to start writing the name of an app and find it easily, like KDE, Windows and even crappy Unity do.
3.- I can't think of any other thing now. To be honest, by general experience is quite positive.

Please add a simple and easy to use way to switch languages. I generally use ES layout and have to use a switcher to change to GR. But if I want to write in Japanese (complex writing) I have to use a different language chooser, and then deactivate it again if I want to go back to ES. And I cannot write japanese with the GR layout, I have to switch back to ES or other western layout in order to do that.

All that because the japanese layout is simply a layout and it does not include complex writing software. I understand this may not be fully a Gnome issue, but maybe you could centralize layouts and complex-writing software so that I only have to choose JP to write in japanese, and then easily switch back to ES without having to switch off the complex writing and then changing the keyboard layout.

3431: Lighter memory foot print would be awesome.

3432: Add/put back more simple customization options for things like the length of the fade to screensaver

Make the main menu simpler to organize/modify

Make options for autoplaying media (e.g. CDs and DVDs) more conspicuous (not hidden away in "File Management").

Continue support for GNOME 2.32, and don't force users to either live with an old unsupported version of GNOME, or the inefficient new-fangled GNOME 3. GNOME 3 is good of Aunt Tillie who likes to see a pretty computer screen, but I find GNOME 2 far better for getting serious work done.

3433: * Provide a way to use either the Activities mode or the more traditional Applications menu with submenus to group applications together, rather than presenting a mess of icons.
* The option to use the existing GNOME screensavers or xscreensaver.
* Design a plugin interface so that people can use the ecosystem of plugins that already exist.

Do not put your opinions of how things should work above those of your users. As soon as you start saying things like "... we’re not designing a desktop for people who like to choose their own terminal emulators" and "Software is a vision, and I'm writing g-p-m to
that grand plan. If you don't like it that's fine. Thanks." you have put yourselves in an ivory tower and cut off communications with the very people who want to work with you. There are clear usability guidelines you have violated in your attempt to re-engineer the GNOME desktop and you should not throw away things that work just for the sake of change or your ideas of 'correct' design.

3434: I would make the shutdown and restart buttons accessible for logged in users. I would make the top-left hand 'Applications' bar click only,(except maybe when dragging windows). I would bring back the compiz 'wobbly windows' into Gnome 3.

3435: Please make GNOME 3 function as well as GNOME 2. The lenses and other changes I have seen from GNOME 3 and Unity are a step back in functionality to me.

3436: more flexibility with the panels, ability to customize context menus

3437: I really don't know. I like GNOME as it is. My whole family uses it on Ubuntu 10.04 (even my 3 years old son, to play on GCompris :-)

Inovate is normally a good thing. However, please always have in mind that people usually don't like big changes on the way they do things.

Breaking paradigms is something hard, and many people simply prefer to avoid it.

Introduce changes slowly; therefore, it is possible to check people reactions and to correct the direction of the changes when things go wrong.

3438: Re-enable desktop icons. When launching a second instance of an application it should default to the current virtual desktop.

3439: I should preface this by saying that I love GNOME Shell. I think it is very pretty, and unobtrusive. But... not yet perfect.

1) Allow (and even endorse) extensions which completely change the GNOME Shell experience; which will allow flexibility for those seeking a GNOME 2 experience... or one not in line with the official GNOME ideals.
2) Add greater fluidity and animation support to GTK (rather than just Clutter). I have in mind subtle animations like button highlights, smooth animated progress bars, etc.
3) Continue to extend and support GNOME Tweak tool as a method allowing power users to control their desktop experience.

Thank you for pursuing the vision of unobtrusive interfaces. I love the simplicity of the design. Though I do miss the configurability of some of the GNOME 2 interfaces, GNOME Tweak Tool, and GNOME Shell extensions, allow you to regains some of that control. Please do continue to support radical extensions and more options in the Tweak Tool.

3440: Gnome3-designed music player
Make it even easier to hack on
Improve app startup time

keep up the good work

3441: (1) Drop Gnome 3 and focus all your efforts on improving Gnome 2.

(2) Nautilus needs to be reviewed for usability.

There are some fundamental drag-and-drop operations that I need to do very frequently that are not supported by Nautilus.

Nautilus is by far the biggest problem that I have with Gnome 2. I eventually had to abandon Nautilus and switch to Dolphin. Review Dolphin (or the Windows Folder Explorer) to see how a file browser needs to behave on file drag-and-drop operations.

(3) Gnome needs to strongly move in the direction of more user-configurabile options. Gnome designers don't seem to have the imagination to figure out how to make a system that is simple for beginners, and yet fully configurable for power users at the same time. Hire people who know how to do this. I guarantee they exist.

I read a lot of on-line Linux forums.

The verdict is in: Gnome 3 is, by and large, not wanted by the power users of the Linux community.

Please, please, read the forums to understand the depth and strength of the displeasure against abandoning Gnome 2 and moving to Gnome 3.

Again, Gnome 3 developers are showing a profound lack of imagination: They don't seem to understand how to create a desktop that can simultaneously accomodate both power users (think 3 huge monitors side-by-side), and 7-inch tablet users at the same time.

You really can please both desktop power users and tablet users at the same time. Hire people who know how to do this. I guarantee they exist.

3442: 1. Condense "Application" & "Places" into "Home" button.
2. Change location and order of buttons (Like Windows)
3. Move task bar to left side of the screen, similar to Unity. (...but keeping as is, not dumbed down)

Keep working, between Windows 8 and Unity, your about to get alot more users!!!

3443: 1. Improved multi-monitor support for Gnome 3
2. Ability to monitor vital system statistics with a method that is always visible. In Gnome 2.x, this was accomplished with the System Monitor and temperature applets.
3. Easier method of viewing and manipulating applications in the notification area.

Gnome 3 has an excellent UI though it does take some getting used to. My main issues are that I can't monitor my system statistics at a glance and poor multi-monitor support.

3444: Have the Gnome team completely, permanently renounce Mono.

3445: - In overview mode, after searching, you would use the up/down arrows to select icons, where it should be the right & left arrows.
- World clock + weather as default options in the shell.
- bring back hibernate as an option in the me menu.

I love gnome shell!

3446: Network file systems are mounted via gvfs on a local directory. Still, Gnome hands sftp:// URLs to many applications that can not handle them when dragging/dropping or saving. None of these apps need to know that its on the network i guess?

I would make Gedit wrap indented lines like kate does.

I would get rid of the behemoth Evolution and the unreliable Abiword and Gnumeric.

I would give Tomboy the option to encrypt and decrypt a note with GPG ... as it can sync with remote services, some things would better stay scrambled.

Nautilus in 2.x is perfect. I am not changing to 3.x in fear that Nautilus will be worse.

I would just prefer to be able to scale icons again as it was possible before. Inside of a folder view, I cannot assign different sizes to icons anymore, which reduces expressional power.

I would prefer if in Nautilus every folder could have a custom background color or pattern.

Make sure all the gedit plugins work asap on 3.x

And: Thanks for making Gnome.

3447: Get rid of Gnome3 and get back to the Gnome2 interface.

Gnome3, just like Unity, is the wrong direction to take Linux for business use.

3448: Menu system is broken for finding my applications solved with gnome3-plugin, but editing the applications in gnome3's menu is severely lacking.

IM contact management when in gnome-shell is not obvious, I believe Gnome 3.2 might have addressed this issue will wait till Fedora update.

Wish icons were smaller by default so more applications fit in gnome shell.

Fix adding items to the menu so it is intuitive.

3449: Bring back the Applications menu as a dropdown

There are many bugs to be fixed. Fix them before implementing new things for the sake of implementing new things.

3450: Keep the old shell alongside the new one!

3451: Taskbar able to be moved similar to how it works in Windows XP, shortcut icons on the bar,

3452: Concerning Gnome Shell:
1) Reintroduce application menu and taskbar
2) More control over desktop customization
3) Less animations and useless eye-candy visuals

I mostly use Linux for work (I'm a software engineer) and I use plain desktop machines and *lots* of console windows, text editors and office applications at the same time. And I do need to switch between windows frequently and quickly.
The Gnome Shell workflow is simply nonsense to me. It does slow down my work and it irritates me each time I need to locate a window or check for skype notifications, forcing me to move the mouse across the whole screen like a mad. I hate Gnome Shell to the same extent I loved Gnome 2. How the hell could they base their design on the insane assumption that all Linux machines are soon going to be mobile terminals, touchpads or other fancy devices used only by teenagers who spend all their fu**ing day chatting on Facebook or browsing the internet. These dash-based schemes are for modern idiots who can only use mobile phones or tablets. But there are also people who still know what's a computer and how it works. Gnome developers should acknowledge the failure of their design and quickly correct the course of the project while there's still time.

3453: 1. Bring back panel icons.

2. Bring back desktop icons and launchers.

3. Bring back all of the various missing configuration utilities.

Please stop fixing things that aren't broken.

3454: More settings out of the box. I get gnome wants to be simple and "just work" but there are a few important settings missing by default (particularly font settings).

It should be noted this has been improving with every gnome 3 release so far, and the officially maintained "gnome-tweak-tool" does contain a lot of these settings, but users should not have to install a program to change font size, its an accessibility concern.

Ignore the trolls and flamebait, but listen to level headed users giving you constructive criticism.

3455: Better access to power settings. The tendency to dumb down interfaces is driving my nuts.

For example, since I upgraded from Ubuntu Dapper (and that was long ago), I can no longer:
1. Set the maximum height of window objects on vertical bars (dumbed down).
2. Use vertical window bars at all (it crashes when the number of objects is 7+). And this is a must on wide screens. (bug, could be work arounded if #1 was still possible)

Another example: NetworkManager. It improved recently, but it still limits too much the control I have over networking.

Never dealt directly with them, so no.

3456: 1. reinstate taskbar
it's hard to find the right window in gnome3 from activity view on a busy desktop. Also it's an annoyingly long mouse travel to get to the corner and back.

2. fix window switching
Really?! How hard can it be. If I open a window I expect it to get on top, if I close a window I don't want all other windows of that app to get buried below some other app. Just examples.

3. A decent file manager.
simple stupp like add folder, cutn paste is inconsistent.

Fix what you have crated and make it kick ass. Don't reinvent the desktop when youväe finally polished it to a useful and productive state.

3457: Less blocky default look
Better default setup

3458: The most annoying problem is with launching application.

* Pannel icons was much more easier.
* having the ability to search applications is cool, but the global menu was much more better.
* last, the Desktop folder was a good way to have a quick acces to documents

I miss gnome 2. Gnome 3 is not that bad, just not as good as the old one.

3459: Reduce resources required to run.

I really like Gnome 2.x. You guys do amazing work.

3460: I am doing my best to adjust to the GNOME Shell workflow, but find that I cannot manage the same number of windows and tasks as with GNOME 2.8 or the fallback mode.

I generally know what I need to run and don't use Activities very much. If I do, it's keyboard driven as there is too much mousing involved. Also, the window overview breaks down with too many windows and with multiple monitors. I don't care about messaging, either -- though I know many people do.

What I would like is to once again be able to manage different classes of tasks that span multiple applications and windows. Furthermore, the removal and simplification of UI elements from core applications and system settings means that I have to manually tweak stuff with the settings backend to effect pretty simple stuff. Note: I'm not asking for KDE style apps, just a better way to retain and present more advanced options to users.

Congratulation on the 3.x series! Keep up the good work.

Be sure to listen to the community a little more. I know lots of people react negatively to change (and disrespectfully), but that doesn't mean that all of their arguments lack merit.

Also, I don't think GNOME is being progressively dumbed-down. I read about all of the interesting new engineering that's going on behind the scenes.

3461: Get rid of Gnome Shell, the whole design is flawed and inefficient.

3462: 1. Make GTK look native in Mac OS X and Windows.
2. GIve more love to display managing--adding and removing displays is always gross when using ATI or NVidia drivers.
3. Make it easier for newbie programmers to help contribue with development.

Keep being awesome.
GNOME is leaps and bounds better than Unity.

3463: 1. Get a lot of useless buttons out of there and replace them with keyboard shortcuts
2. Stop adding all these effects, trying to make it look 'futuristic'. Think before implementing something new and ALWAYS make sure it's useful.
3. Make it modular and fast! It should be able to be so customizable, that it looks like ScrotWM.

3464: Gnome 2 works, but I can't use Gnome 3. As a power user I regularly have 4+ windows per desktop, over 6+ desktops - I have exceeded 100 windows open on many occasions. The Gnome 2 paradigm handles this, but Gnome 3 fails to do this so badly that fundamental changes are needed.

The lack of customisation in Gnome 3 is intolerable.

Backward compatibility would be nice - even windows allows me to revert to old style desktops. Of course, the Windows 7 desktop is arguably better than Gnome 3, when Gnome 2 had the Windows XP desktop looking like garbage.

Gnome 2 *allowed me to do my job*. Gnome 3 gets in the way, at a very fundamental level - I tried to work with it, but it simply will not play ball. The shiny stuff needs to come second to actual usability - the gnome usability 'experts' need to sit down and list *all* the use cases for a desktop and make sure they support them. They seem to be exclusively targeting users who never have much more than a few tabs in a single browser and an email client/office tool open, and as such have failed to support anyone who does anything even remotely complex with their computer.

3465: Bring back the GNOME 2.x interface
Implement undo and other functionalities in Nautilus
Make Vala the language of choice for developing GNOME apps

Listen to your users... GNOME Shell could be ok for a tablet or touch interface, but how many users have tablets or a touch screen?
It is almost impossible to manage multiple windows without having to switch back and forth between virtual desktops to find the right one.

3466: Make it as easy to work with multiple apps as gnome 2 was
Can we have a way of selecting windows like a task bar
Stability

Realize most of your users aren't on tablets or netbooks
You need to provide functionality for power users
We seem to throw everything a way every few years.
The desktop especially the apps never seem to reach a finished and bug fixed place before being replaced with an even less functional program.

3467: - easy way to change fonts and customize colors/size
- nicer default icon for folder

- keep it simple by default, but please don't forget to add advanced personalisation, with documentation (by dconf editor or whatever)
- gnome shell and unity are perfect for newbies ! A basic computer user just find what he wants (usually internet, his documents & photos) and can't break things by cliking somewhere... perfect for grandparents ... Just keep work on improve speed.

3468: Better multi-monitor support,

3469: 1) Don't treat me like a 5-year old by hiding away options that you think I don't care about.
2) Don't slow down my PC too much.
3) Allow me to do anything that I might need to do in any file-manager-like dialog window (e.g. the Open File / Save File dialogs). E.g. changing filenames, moving files into other directories, showing all files, including files that the dialog box's creator thought I didn't want to see (in Window XP I always did this by typing e.g. "*.*" in the box where the filename can be typed). Basically, let me use the filename box as a place to enter commands such as "..", "*")

Don't follow the mistakes of Unity.

3470: Get rid of crap Gnome 3.

3471: I love version 3. I regularly use Windows XP, Vista, & 7. Plus OS X. I'm thinking Gnome blows them all away.

Great job with 3.

3472: I want to change how corners act (I'm sick of using the upper right hand corner to get to all of my windows).
I don't like that that the taskbar is gone (in that I can't see all of my open applications).
Separate corner for open windows and applications.
(I guess I don't like the corner stuff that much).

I like the changes. Gnome 3 is definitely an improvement!

3473: Gnome shell, UI design rules (unused white space everywhere, buttons too big, icons...), login screen

3474: 1. Have gnome settings daemon not clobber my touchpad setup
2. Bring back the nautilus button to switch between text/buttons in
location bar
3. Don't have nautilus search the sidepane when I do a type-in search
or have it configurable.

Come back to planet earth

3475: Go back to the old style of desktop, gnome shell is fundamentally bad UI design.Anythign that introduces more clicks, mouse movements and wasteful animations in the way of me doing things is simply the wrong direction. Lack of customisation is totally unbelievable.

Give up on gnome shell, it really is an incredible step backwards. Sorry you have been wasting your time and more importantly ours.

3476: * Window decorations should be done in GTK+
* Stop trying to support Windows and OSX
* Try to reach the wider population, perhaps with articles in "regular" computer user magazines

See above

3477: Allow for easy replacement of the default WM.

Pour all of the resources and attention into the fallback (ie. Gnome 2) mode.

Improve the volume control widget.

Improve fallback mode and make that the default. Let Gnome Shell be an optional addition.

Gnome 3 is currently very pretty. Everything looks a lot nicer than it did in Gnome 2. If it had even a fraction of the customizability of KDE I would be a very happy camper.

3478: 1) Integration of Thunderbird/Alternative calendars into Gnome (not just evolution)
2) Easier tweaking/configuration of Gnome 3
3) Better keyboard shortcuts in Gnome 3

3479: more accessibility to customization options please.

3480: Improved customization capabilities
Re-Design of fundamental applications (evolution)
Improved customization capabilities

3481:

3482: 1) Centralized Multi-Protocol Sharing Management
2) Support for mounting encrypted LVM volumes
3) Front-end for defining PolKit user preferences
4) Customizations (themes, sound effects, applets, screensaver)

Keep up the good work!

3483: - Get back to the Gnome 2 Desktop
Correctly configured, it wastes no screen real estate on
decorations, and when I want another xterm, I just get one,
without having to spend an hour googling and then contorting
my fingers. Windows stay where you put them, and the size you
choose for them. (Well, at least when you avoid changing
resolution). Like ldxe and xfce, it's three times as fast to
navigate the menues, when you need them.
Switching between a dozen or a score of virtual desktops is fast
and without a hint of resize / distortion vertigo, allowing you
to build up a mental map of the different desktops.
- Make multi-monitor support consistently work (Only KDE seems to get
this right - but if I can get my monitor(s) to work, I generally
use other Desktops environments like Ldxe, Xfce or Openbox)
- More flexibility in how virtual desktops map to physical screen
real estate. I.e. allow to mix virtual desktops that span multiple
monitors and ones that occupy only one Monitor. A single-monitor
desktop on one monitor could be simultaneously displayed with
a viewport to a larger desktop that pans over the full virtual
area, while at other times, only a single big desktop is displayed
on all monitors, or multiple smaller ones on one monitor each.
Or on part of a monitor.

Compbiz is not an acceptable replacement for GNOME 2 - I don't want
some dead space resembling panels, but actual panels I can
configure / remove / hide.

3484: I want the ability to easily remove the bars from the top of the windows.

3485: cook in the advanced theme controls into the shell
embrace nautilus elementary
bring back maximise and minimise

cook in the advanced theme controls into the shell - it is crazy that you need to install another app just to change fonts. sort this out.

3486: Get rid of "gnome shell" and related crap which is holding me back from upgrading.
Hire a new dev team that doesn't make stupid decisions.

Get rid of "gnome shell" and related crap which is holding me back from upgrading.
Hire a new dev team that doesn't make stupid decisions.

3487: 1.speed
2.putting more options that let me change themes, icons, fonts
3.install in the default install, the needed extensions and the user can choose what to use based on his needs.

I hope they make fast advancements in the development of gnome, add some basic tools and extensions, cause the main problem with gnome3 was the lack of customization, and basically, the power of Linux was in the possibility to customize it as you needed or wished.
Best of luck to all.

3488: Easier customization in gnome3.
An option for a more classic interface.
Smaller memory footprint and less dependence on 3d hardware.

I'm not using a tablet, please stop making me feel like I am. Also, make customization easier, i don't want to edit a config file every time i want to change a font or color.

3489: Faster
Simpler
Get rid of all the flashy crap.

Trying to look more and more like Windows is foolish.

3490: Improved stability of the date/weather widgets, which occasionally crash on startup. (Although this may be a distro issue rather than a GNOME issue.)

Beyond that ... I don't know, really. When a desktop environment is working well, I don't notice it - and GNOME has generally been working well.

The last Ubuntu update went from GNOME 2.x to Unity. I tried getting used to it for about a day, then gave up and reverted to GNOME 2.x.

My understanding is that GNOME 3 is in a similar style to Unity. If so, then I'll keep using the GNOME 2.x branch as long as my distro supports it, then switch to something else, probably xfce (Xubuntu).

So, my suggestion: either keep the 2.x branch alive, or make it easily possible to achieve a traditional desktop within GNOME 3. Not everyone wants a tablet-style desktop; in fact, hardly anyone does.

3491: make interoperability with windows networks work better. ie the login to a domain and computers on a windows domain is difficult.

please DON'T try to have one interface for tablets and desktop computers. ie unity is rubbish (on a desktop). for a desktop PC minimise the number of steps to get to any program rather than have huge icons.

Don't make interfaces that change by themselves, I want to know where to find things rather than having them hidden sometimes and not others, greyed out is ok as long as it is still shown.

optimise the look for wide screen displays, eg word processors can have the toolbars and menus on the side

don't hide menus and such ie having to click on some tiny arrow (with no label) to show the file menu like in the newer versions of firefox. This adds more steps to getting to do something useful like saving the page and the top level clickable item can be hard to find because it is in an unexpected place, looks like decoration and is not labelled with a revelant title. (a button with firefox on it (that looks like it could be the window title) in the title bar is bad as it is in an unexpected place and gives you no indication that clicking on it gives access to menus)

3492: killall gnome-shell
make it easier to change advanced settings, gconf was ok but it could be better

Gnome 2.x was good, 3.x not so much.

3493: Ditch Gnome3, go back to Gnome2

Go back to Gnome 2's design.

3494: Nautilus should use extended attributes to store file-specific data

The standard desktop manager should allow for different desktop backgrounds for each desktop

The notification aread should recognize if a program send 100 notifications whihc are the same and abbreviate these (e.g. connection error in thunderbird)

Make it as good as the OS2 WPS

3495: Change your design ethos to allow power users to successfully get more advanced tasks done. Don't over-simplify everything. Don't believe you can ever understand how all your users _should_ use their computers.

3496: Thinner title bars by default
Native Tiling Window Manager
Non binary configuration files

Stop catering to tablets. Linux user demographic has very little overlap with iPad users.

3497: - Able to change wallpaper for both login and desktop.

- Sorting of application drawer (categories)

- Windows aero style window management (windows key + arrow keys)

Keeping doing what you do! Gnome 3 is on the right way :)

3498: Curb the frigging registry.
Add accessible configuration.
Rewrite stuff in Vala, less obnoxious code, and add some comments once in a while.

Prohibition doesn't work.

3499: Restore ALL the options!
Features, Features, Features!
Gnome Shell's an amazing innovation, but needs to accept being more complex than it currently is to actually be a productive work environment.

Please take this seriously. Please heed user feedback. It's not too late. Gnome developers, please remember that you have a voice; make your own decisions, like you used to. Make epiphany into a serious browser. Bookmarks there are actually pretty neat :)

GNOME has tons of good apps, but is currently getting a damn horrible rep. I beg of you, restore a reasonable number of options, fix gnome-shell (starting with restoring the other window buttons), and let's all move on with life.

3500: more concentration on what the users really want - less flashy effects and features and more stability and usability. apple are gaining market share for a reason.

be friendly to the new users, they will be in your position in 10 years.