What People Are Saying About GNOME [Part 4]
3501: GNOME is pretty cool, actually. I have trouble thinking of ways to change it.
GNOME is awesome. I love the ability to customize jsut about everything.
3502: Keep GNOME 2 alive
Please keep GNOME 2 alive.
3503: Increase Nautilus speed. Include a search function in the contextual menu on folders.
Make so that all apps use mountpoints as defined through Gnome.
Default fonts are too big!
For Evolution : I want to know when it computes and when it chats over the network. Haven't used it for some time, though...
I shall wait until I test Gnome 3.2.
The UI are fully usable, that's great compared to old style Linuxes.
Thanks for your work.
3504: Desktop-specific wallpaper
Perpetuate Gnome 2
3505: 1) reverse dumb down
2) concentrate on being up to date on features instead of trying to reinvent the environment. ie: touch screen gestures etc.
3) reverse dumb down. Maybe you could click a more/less box. ie:
a) Simple - Dont confuse me. Where is facebook? Help me.
b) Normal - I want to be able to use my computer as a computer.
c) Expanded - I'm a geek (or want to be) let me have it.
Maybe you could let people choose wheather they want their desktop to operate like a tablet or a desktop.
Let people that want these levels design the options/features for the level they are interested in without trying to dominate everyone else.
See above
3506: 1. A single configuration system rather then gconf/dconf/whatever
2. A better Glade tool
3. Bring back old games, like robots
Don't complain about lack of hardware acceleration and don't assume hardware accelerated graphics, either. And please keep the Gnome Panel, it's not perfect but it's the only desktop toolbar I can live with.
3507: I find Settings and Preferences hard to distinguish in my mind. Perhaps merging these menu areas into one control centre kind of thing.
Beyond that I am too out of date (still on Gnome 2) to comment.
Great work. Keep it up.
3508: No Mac or Windows-like toolbars that cannot be gotten rid of that have ridiculous icons.
Drop-down menus as in version 2.
Easy customizing, unlike the hoops I had to jump through to get my desktop as I want in ubuntu 11.10.
Stop trying to imitate Mac and Windows, and dumbing down the interface.
There are LOTS of power users, such as myself, who have NO need for toolbars filled with icons.
3509: 1. Customizable panels
2. Better theme compatibility
3. Easier customization in general
3510: I would put orca in to every distribution of linux. There would be better keyboard navigation. There would be documentation easy for screen-reader users to understand.
Please try using orca with every program you use, to test its accessibility. Please write all programs with accessibility built in. For what you are already doing, thank you.
3511: Drop GNOME Shell
Drop Epiphany (what's the point of it?)
Better multi-monitor support
Starting to get a little bit fed up with GNOME Shell. XFCE is calling me back.
3512: Keep
Supporting
Gnome 2.x
Keep
Supporting
Gnome 2.x
3513: 1. Configurability. I've used Gnome for 10 years, and I'm about ready to drop it because it's become very difficult to maintain my workflow or use a netbook with a restricted vertical resolution.
2. Window management bugs in Gnome shell must be fixed. All windows start maximised, and part of their window area is simply invisible. It is necessary to move the windows, using a key on the keyboard, to make them fully visible. I find no configuration, help, FAQ entry that explains this. How did it ever ship in this state?
3. Replace Network Manager with something that works or fix it. Wicd does some fundamental things right, but is functionally crippled, slow and buggy. There is no good way to configure networking from the desktop on Linux today.
Learn Unix and its mentality. Respect it. E.g., use text configuration files. It is a very severe violation of Unix mentality to use binary blobs. I don't need to elaborate on this, many people have dropped Gnome because they could not fix their broken desktop.
Gnome shell is intriguing and I fully support the effort to redefine the desktop in a well-though manner, but listen to your users' complaints.
3514: I haven't tried gnome 3.X, I'm a bit afraid of that, so this about gnome 2.x: I wish gnome/metacity has supported dual monitor setup with independent workspace switching. Right now each workspace spans all monitors, I prefer to have a separate workspace for each monitor with independent switching, panels etc. It would also be nice to allow dynamic creation and removal of such workspaces when a second monitor is connected/disconnected.
3515: 1) I would add a taskbar (or something equivalent) to GNOME3.
2) I would add some sort of dock to GNOME3; something like the GNOME2 notification area, or other applet (like AWN) useful to dock applications that remain open on the background during my whole session (apps like amarok and amsn for example).
3) I would make GNOME3 more configurable. For example I would make the left bar position changeable (up, down, right, etc.), and I would make a way to change it's behaviour (always visible, autohide, etc).
Yes, see #22.
3516: Keep it simple.
Few Clicks to get the job done.
Build a great touch interface.
3517: 1. Mentality. If you want to satisfy non-technical users, make a UI profile for non-technical users and leave a fully functional UI for the technical ones. Place a switch button in visible place.
2. Mentality. Do not remove old UI functions without offering alternative functions of at least equivalent power and usability.
3. Mentality. Go out to the internets and listen to your users.
Relative to GNOME 3
1 - Bring back the taskbar. Switching through window previews is cumbersome when you have a lot of text windows getting open and closed. Thumbnails are not very legible and switch positions constantly. This unnecessarily increases load on (human) memory and requires unnecessary additional mental effort. Additional effort is small, but when you must spend it 50 times a day, while being increasingly tired, becomes really annoying.
2 - Use sane defaults. Really annoying when you have to browse through blogs and forums just to make things work normally.
3 - Add search to gconf-editor. Guessing where is the key that matches the desired function is a waste of time.
4 - GNOME 3 would be great if someone would not have decided he knows better and thrown out small but important bits out of UI. Taskbar, notification bar, shutdown option, lock screen on suspend, click on favorite app opens new instance not switches, etc... How did you even came on the idea, to throw old functions out without introducing new functions of at least equivalent power and usability? Those functions were there because people needed them. The need is not gone, but functions are. Not cool.
3518: Better keyboard-less support. (slate computer)
Reduce empty space between file icons in Nautilus by default.
???
Not really.
3519: - bring back panel applets
- bring back configuration tools
- make it less hardware dependent
Keep Gnome2 alive until Gnome3 is feature complete enough to replace it.
3520: Stop the bickering between developers
Make radial changes (Gnome 3) optional
Keep Gnome 2 project alive
3521: Miss the individual customization of metacity and panel in gnome 2 and so have reverted back (from Gnome 3 and Fedora 15) to Fedora 14 on all of the computers I use. Can't just click on the top bar and add an icon for apps I run frequently, etc. Honestly, I just don't like the gnome 3 and the gnome shell thing. I do a lot of CAD and forcing the video into a high performance mode for reading email is a lose for me.
3522: More integrated eye candy (e.g. Compiz)
Better desktop experience
More customizations
What where you thinking with Gnome3 ???????
Horrible!
Epic Fail!
Gnome 2 was good... Gnome 3 step in the wrong direction!
3523: - less *bling*
- no clumsy gconf
- try not to fail as hard as KDE4
3524: 1.- The ability to add tiled panels/windows to the desktop with all kind of content instead of just icons. Make the desktop behave as the Eclipse IDE.
2.- A way to see the history of notifications with date/time, message, program.
3.- The ability to access and manipulate everything with only the keyboard.
Please don't let 2.x die.
3525: Gnome shell / Activities / SOD IT ....EVERYTHING !...
Please please I beg you, go back to gnome 2x, what was so wrong with it anyway?, I HAD to take gnome3 off my laptop as I use it for work and I couldn't put up with the ridicule after losing what I was working on anymore.
3526: Fork GNOME 2 and GNOME 3 and keep updating GNOME 2.
Make the option to go back to GNOME 2 and not some half-assed failsafe mode.
GNOME 3 is to quote Linus Torvalds "unholy mess" GNOME 2.32 was perfect in my opinion! Long live GNOME 2.32!
3527: more options, even screensaver settings are now dumbed down
thorough (technical) documentation
easier keyring thingy
3528: 1) Let the dash open new application windows when clicking on app icons
2) Create a simple email client (not a PIM) able to fetch emails while closed.
3) Create a dedicated calendar app.
Your rock guys!
3529: Would like: better integration with non-GNOME applications (Thunderbird instead of Evolution, Pidgin instead of Empathy, etc.), desktop search (either built-in or just an interface to some external engine), a real user guide (as in GNOME 2.x)
Overall, I'm very happy with the GUI changes made in 3.x; there was some learning to do, but I feel the new desktop is actually more efficient and usable. It's nice to see that you've put some conceptual work into it rather than just copying Apple or Microsoft
3530: (This applies to 3.x) Make the UI much smaller, it's a pain to use with 3 large-res monitors. Also, add the ability to completely remove all the features intended for tiny-screen netbooks. Some of us have large screen resolutions and large screens in general.
3531: Better stability.
3532: -I would make it more lightweight.
-I would make it more customizable.
-I would make it more customizable.
The customization is lacking.
3533: independent of gpu.
graphics card only really needed for media rendering.
3534: 1. Settings are either easy to change via system settings, or hard/annoying to change by requiring the installation and use a tweak tool or dconf editor. Can't there be a middle ground? Maybe have the tweak tool installed by default and include more settings in there?
2. Allow us to move the top bar to the side. Most people have wide screens nowadays, making vertical space more "valuable". I never really have a lack of horizontal space, but I do like maximizing vertically to have as much context as possible when viewing a document or web page.
3. Fix the Gnome 3 workspaces with multiple screens. Currently it gets in a weird state where only one screen has changes.
3535: Just one, and that is to change to KDE plasma.
Stop, just stop.
3536: Thank you very much and keep up the good work
3537: Keep on rocking. I know you guys get a lot of criticism for the changes and stuff but it's shaping to be a really good DE.
3538: Gnome 3 (Ubuntu 11.4) won't run on my hardware. I have real worries about what I am going to do when Ubuntu 10.4 support ceases
3539: - Add configurability for advanced users as well as noobs e.g. robust plugin system
- Allow for multiple windows and multiple monitors better
- Allow for the bling to be turned off
I have loved the simplicity of GNOME for years with the 2.x series. I understand the need to help non- power users but give us power users the ability to craft 3.x into something we like too.
3540: Make xmonad work again. Remove all settings from th"e section of settings labelled "system info" and/or rename system info or take it out of settings because something called system info does not belong under settings, that's the kind of stupid ux mistake Microsoft would make. Also make an easy way to clear recent things. I use eog for porn.
Keep at it, people hate gnome 3, me included, but that's only because it's early stages.
3541: 1) Reduce memory usage in Evolution
2) gnome-terminal crashes which take down 30+ terminals (all share one process). I've switched to mrxvt to have a process per term so I don't risk losing so much.
3) There is no 3
I am still using gnome 2.x on Ubuntu 10.4. I've been really turned off by everything I've read about both gnome 3.x and Unity. I remember in the gnome 2.x days where people feared the "over-simplification" of the desktop and removal of options. But, I think gnome 2.x drew the line pretty fairly in satisfying power users and newbies alike. It seems like gnome 3.x and unity have gone quite far beyond that line.
I can't imagine someone NOT forking gnome in its current state, without some drastic changes coming from the gnome team first.
3542: 1. Bring the configurability back. Example: If bonghits have made you think that moving a window to the top of the screen should maximize it, that is fine. But give me an option to change it.
2. Port the clearlooks theme to gtk3. No, I do not like your new theme. No, I do not care how "modern" it is. If I wanted my theme to change on upgrades, I could use OSX.
3. Infrequently used things (like the accessibility menu) should go in the auto-hiding bottom panel. The notification area should not go there, because I do not want to miss notifications when it is hidden.
3.5. Vertical screen real-estate is at a premium these days, while horizontal real-estate is plentiful. Figure out a way to move the functions of the top panel to the side.
4. Evolution. It just sucks in every way possible. If I wanted a bad Outlook clone, well... I'll never want a bad Outlook clone.
Anyone who tells you that removing options equals good design is a moron. Stop listening to these people. If your goal is to make all Gnome desktops more consistent, make the defaults something people actually like. And understand that power users are potent anti-advocates for your platform. Pissing them off is a bad idea.
3543: taskbar and minimize buttons, power off button.
change for better usability is good but this gnome 3 kind of revolution instead of evolution pushes users away.
3544: Remove GNOME Shell, return to Desktop Metaphor
Use complied language for user interface instead of scripted (for performance).
Tighter integration with operating system and hardware (perhaps GNOME should become a full operating system)
GNOME 3.x is a very good foundation for a modern desktop. When I run GNOME in fallback mode or the full system with extensions to make it behave like a desktop, I see the potential. Unfortunately, the developers fail to comprehend that the desktop metaphor works for desktop computers. Most of those who criticize GNOME 3.x fail to see that the problem is with GNOME Shell and assume the whole thing is broken.
Please, admit defeat, remove GNOME Shell, and try to innovate with less radical change. A desktop system needs a task bar, needs a desktop, and needs multitasking. GNOME Shell should be reserved only for small screens such as tablets and smart phones. Desktop computers (contrary to popular belief) are not disappearing, they are becoming more specific in the area of use. The Windows task bar has survived since the early 90's because it was well designed, does not get in your way, and is FAST!.
GNOME 3.x is a major step ahead of GNOME 2.x, but GNOME Shell gets in the way and makes it look like a cheap user interface I would find on some obscure embedded system for a microwave.
3545: get rid of the left array with boxes opening dropright windows
i want my desktop icons back
please let me start *another* program as usual (select->click) instead of just "finding" the one I just want to set aside...
linux is a developers environment mostly. Listen to the developers then. Linux is different and there's strength in that. The UI for Linux systems may differ from others; it doesn't have to comply to COTS OSses...
3546: - gnome shell : it's useless and even counterproductive when doing real work.
- more integration between the desktop and base applications (email, browser, audioplayer,...)
- more configuration options with sane default.
stop considering that gnome users are brainless. In 6 month I'll upgrade my distro. If gnome is still unusable, I'll go elsewhere.
3547: Configurability. The standpoint that users are dumb and get confused when given options is contrary to open source philosophies and rather insulting.
Repeat the above twice more to make three.
See question 22.
3548: Compiz-Grid functionality in 3.2
3549: Back to the old interface (2.x).
3550: The whole removing features thing. Stop it. Sometimes less is not more.
Better multi-monitor support and better designed applications.
3551: 1. A bit more customization, so that I could adjust the behavior to my tastes (concerning Gnome 3; gnome 2 has mostly the needed things). The basic settings should be in the control center, not hidden in dconf
2. I'd reverse the "dock" type behaviour in gnome shell: new instance normally, and ctrl-click in the unlikely event that I want to jump to an already open window. The current behavior is almost never what I mean (I had to eventually write an extension that implements the desired behavior in part)
3. Get rid of GtkSwitch, or at least replace it something more recognizable. I would not have known it is supposed to be a switch (none of that type in my household) if I was not the kind of person that reads flames online
Please listen to the users sometimes. When people complain about removed functionality, it's because it was something they find essential to their workflow, not because it's fun to complain.
Please do not forget your old users. Some of us have been along for a long time (I have used gnome since the early alphas), and we have our reasons to stay. Our needs do not necessarily match those of newbies, and do not need to be the default, but it's important to be able to have access to the features that are essential to us (sloppy focus and dual monitor are in a bit of a semi working state in 3.0 at least; I haven't been able to test 3.2 so I'm hoping they are better in that)
Overall, I'm hopeful about gnome 3. It is still a major regression in many areas compared to 2.32, but it is mostly usable (though after heavy tweaking). I expect it to become clearly better than 2.x after a couple of releases. Relatively the situation is better than after the 2.0 release, which I regretted upgrading to bitterly. Now I could downgrade, which I could not do back then, but I have been testing 3.0 out of free will for a couple of weeks now.
3552: Better fitting of Gnome 3 on a smaller netbook screen. Vertical spacing is horrible and many apps (especially the settings application) are not resizeable. Having to alt-click-drag windows around to click on OK/Close buttons is horrible fallback UI and not even an option on touchscreens/tablets.
Better handling of multiple monitor setups and 3D between logins. If I bootup and log in with another monitor plugged into my netbook, I only get the 2D desktop.
Better handling of windows that open full-screen. Sometimes the UI stays on top and sometimes it can't be accessed with the hot-corner and the keyboard hot-key must be used.
I know that the GNOME devs have a grand vision for the GNOME desktop but it would be best to make it a grand vision for the *default* desktop and not to fight to hide or eliminate the ability to customize. A rigid attitude against variability may make maintenance and usability measurement easier but it is user hostile.
3553: 1. A "dashboard" style screen for monitoring widgets and the like (I miss my weather applet and cpu/memory monitors)
2. Remove the new on/off slider since it's redundant with the already-existing checkbox control.
3. More detailed developer documentation.
I was worried when I heard about GNOME 3 changing GNOME 2 so completely, but it looks like my fears were baseless!
Good work!
3554: Make the (non-root) system settings a lot easier to get to and more intuitive.
Allow the top bar to be hidden until the user moves the mouse to the top left/right.
The tabbing into other windows is annoying with all the windows grouped by application, Makes it very difficult to quickly tab between (eg.) 2 office windows.
Do something with the desktop. I don't know what (not icons) but it feels useless at the moment. Possible make a blank desktop automatically bring up the overview?
3555: Improve the applications.
Thanks for building an excellent free software desktop.
3556: Caching of the menu icons before a menu is drawn
Caching of the menu icons before a menu is drawn
Caching of the menu icons before a menu is drawn
Stop letting Ubuntu push you around. Gnome was around before Ubuntu and Shuttleworth and it will be around after as well.
3557: Add some configurability
Get rid of horrible new UI screwups
Stop pandering to imagined never-used-a-computer users
3558: Return the customization options that make GNOME so great to GNOME 3, and stop trying to be Steve Jobs and tell people what they want to use.
3559: Revert GNOME shell back to GNOME 2.x, Gnome 2 was ideal.
Make Shell an option, Gnome 2.X was ideal.
3560: Keep the option to run the traditional Gnome interface on a Desktop Computer.
Same as above.
3561: Improve the applications.
Thanks for building an excellent free software desktop.
3562: GNOME 3 is looking good, keep up the good work. I use GNOME 2.x currently only because I use Elementary as my main OS for now.
3563: Easier configuration of task bars at the top and bottom of screen. I deleted a widget thingy accidently and had no idea what it wss called or how to get it back. Now it's gone forever :(
3564: Improve speed
Make it rock-solid (gnome 3 only)
Facilities to redimension windows so you can work with multiple of them (a la windows but easily better)
Always listen to your users, i've heard most of them disapoint gnome 3
Beware graphics drivers bugs
API/ABI freezing is very important in the long term
3565: Allow me to decide if I need to power off. Allow me to decide if I need minimize/maximize buttons. Allow me to decide if I want/need a screensaver. Allow me to decide...
Listen to your users. Begin from the concept that they may be minimally intelligent, and allow them to have choices.
3566: 1) Scrap GNOME3.
2) Add window minimization button
3) Allow icons on the desktop
GNOME3 is really bad. I keep trying it out ever month or so hoping that I will end up liking it, but it just doesn't happen. GONE2 was intuitive and usable, GNOME3 isn't. If GNOME 2.x and all forked version die out, I will probably switch to XFCE. There is no way that I will use GNOME3 in its current form. A doc like the one in GNOME 2.x or OSX is a must! Same with minimize and resize/maximize buttons.
3567: Nothing, <3
Keep up the good work
3568: Make it easier to install fonts -- ie. double click on a font, have a nice viewer and a button to install it.
Build in a password manager that integrates nicely with other applications.
Build in some nice, easy to use back up tool.
Ignore the haters. I don't really enjoy GNOME 3 yet, but I didn't really enjoy GNOME 2 when it first came out either.
Give people some kind of on-screen 'dock' device for storing common applications.
3569: A Qt renderer for GTK+ apps, like Qt has for GTK+.
Sane configurability instead of too few options (I'd like to be able to put a panel on my second screen, for instance)
Better vertical panels.
3570: add link-monitor-applet and more themes
just thanks, but should stop the attacks against free software on planet.gnome.org
3571: Give me options!!! I hate click-to-type. I realise most people either love it or don't know that there's another way, but that's not a good reason for removing an easy way to change it.
Documentation! Took me three days to figure out how to successfully switch window managers under Gnome 3.0. (No, I don't use metacity, and no it's not dbus enabled)
Changing the world is only a good thing if people like the change.
3572: Find that I need to google to figure out how to change some obvious settings - like putting minimize/close buttons on the right where they belong.
3573: I want for there to be a pre-installed, easily accessible appearance applet similar to that of GNOME 2.x. GNOME Tweak Tool performs all that in a utilitarian way, but the fact that you must go out of your way to install the tool to get this functionality isn't good. Besides, the GTT could be somewhat intimidating to an unfamiliar user and the organization could be better in regards to appearance settings.
Lastly, I feel that the shutdown menu should be accessible without holding ALT or installing the official extension.
Add back some of the missing features from GNOME 2.x and you'll have a fantastic desktop environment which I'll love that much more
3574: HIG (there's more than one correct way to do things!)
lack of configurability (there's more than one correct way to do things!)
have any default settings you like, but please bring back options for 'advanced' users
Not every device is handheld. Please don't abandon desktop and full-size laptop users by making the interface only suitable for small touchscreens.
3575: 1) Add button to turn off on main menu (save energy)
2) Default to Nautilus, the most feature rich file manager, with
full options.
3) Easier USB demount/eject (why two clicks at least)
You folks put in a lot of work, it is sincerely appreciated. I used to do programming and OS's and worked with USUS thirty years ago, so I know how much work it is. Thanks!!!
3576: #1: Speed of panel applets -- I have a quad core CPU and plenty of RAM, yet opening Tomboy hangs for at least five seconds just when clicking the icon.
#2: Less change. I'm an long-time Linux user, but I'm not currently a GNOME or Linux desktop developer, so I don't follow all the changes and what's new in these projects. At the end of the day I just want to get my work done.
Therefore, every time I upgrade, I do not want to re-learn a bunch of apps, or find replacements for apps and panel applets that have been deprecated, broken or removed for some reason (I really missed deskbar-applet, which seemed to disappear/break in Ubuntu 10.04, and its replacements were not as nice).
Therefore, hearing all the hullabaloo about GNOME 3, trying it (briefly) myself, and hearing friends' experiences with it, I'm not really looking forward to my next OS upgrade, where I will presumably have to spend a whole bunch of time learning a whole new interface which is likely to have little or no net benefit to me. But you never know.. maybe I will be pleasantly surprised?
#3: Something that isn't Evolution. I've tried it countless times over the years and, as an IMAP user, it never seems to improve -- it always works very slowly and the UI is unresponsive and somewhat unintuitive.
The question "How do you compare your current GNOME version with the version from one year ago?" assumes that everyone updates more than once a year.
I'm using an LTS release of Ubuntu, so I don't believe my GNOME version has been upgraded in the last 18 months.
3577: go back to the intuitive 2.x interface instead of making up a shitty new one.
FUCK GNOME 3 YOU SHIT HEADS.
3578: The ability to change the way it looks to how I want it.
Stop hiding things.
Take the best of Unity and combine it with the best bits of Gnomeshell.
Listen to ordinary users a bit more we may not be developers but we are not idiots either.
3579: * The "Expose" feature. I don't like how it moves my windows around randomly. This hinders recognition and habit forming and is an understood usability problem.
* Make it prettier. Unity is doing some amazing work in terms of visual design. Gnome Shell looks like it came from 2005.
Amazing work in Gnome 3 / Gnome Shell, but you have a long way to go before it becomes great. Keep at it.
3580: 1. Make all widgets, panels, toolbars, menubars,titlebars, etc vertically smaller
2. Put the menubar in the panel
3. Keep applications loaded when windows are closed. quit only when quit item is selected by menu or keyboard shortcut
3581: Fix GNOME 3!
3582: [ordered by importance]
1. thinner window title bars (maybe none at all) or more general: more options to customize the look (colors, themes, etc)
2. more functionality in the top gnome bar
3. switching desktops with the mouse involves too much movement (current positon -> top left corner -> right screen edge). maybe combine this with #2
keep up having the balls to try new stuff, but please change the three things listed above ;)
3583: - Customizable dock, always visible dock, with freedom to choose where to locate it ala Docky.
- A Favorites option, permanent and customizable for the Dash (the thing that shows up when the cursor get to the upper left corner). I'll let it exactly like it behaves now, but with the Favorites "on".
- The way the Activities behave isn't obvious, they're quite useful and better implemented than in KDE, but I think it would need some revamp, maybe with some icons and/or better mouseover activated messages.
- Do not forget the desktop/laptop users! Most of the hardware in hands of your current users is purely adapted to the old desktop metaphore, don't forge this when you develop a touch-future-enabled GUI, please.
- Get the personalization integrated formally and fast please, most of the current Gnome users actually use that kind of refinements.
- Supercharge the GUI more mouseover activated help messages and probably a fast way to disabled them ( I think the option to deactivate them is already in place and working just fine, at the upper right corner of the screen, in the menu).
- Thanks for having worked as fast as you did till now to develop Gnome 3. Well done.
- And well the new GUI is of course an awesome example of opensource development, besides I initially wasn't too convenced about 3.x "way", now I think it was the right development path to follow (KDE will follow a similar path soon I think). Thank you for being brave enought to embrace it.
- Get a "Invite me a coffe" link to donate to the masses, clearly visible for the project, so we can donate, or maybe put the option quite visible in the project website, the "planet" blog agregator, etc.
Thanks, Gnome was the best GUI at the beginning of Linux, then it becomes more awesome (2.x) even, now the new guys got their shot with 3.x, don't scrub it please.
3584: * Give me my screensaver back (it's not a deal breaker, but I miss it ok?)
* Ability to customise placement of GUI elements (perhaps through a dedicated layout app to avoid accidental movement?)
* Don't have a third, other than to note that the two previous points are admittedly rather minor.
Nope. Chuck Testa!
3585: The stupid microscopic window handles!!! Let me resize my darn windows the way I want please..
I had enough of fighting with a dumbed down window manager (ala Windows) I'm switching to Xfce for my machines... faster and high customizeable and most of all it doesn't treat me like an idiot... know your target audience guys..
3586: Rename activities (preferably with an icon), power off from system menu & magically move it into Debian testing.
Haters gonna hate
3587: More tweaking (extension support etc)
Ability to edit Google docs in desktop document viewer.
Move work space switcher to bottom or somewhere closer to dock
Love what you've done in gnome 3.2. LOVING Google sync and the ability to create web apps with ease. Keep up the work and haters gonna hate.
3588: Make it more configurable for the user - and standardise
3589: 1) remove all mono/.NET code and projects
2) reduce bloat from bundling
3) maintain flexibility with many small tools
While I don't use gnome, I think if some people find it useful it should be seen as a success. I'm happy using openbox, tint, etc but it isn't for everyone. I believe that a diversity of desktop systems is healthy and robust.
3590: some performance tweaks,
more code maturity
get rid of vinigare
You guys are doing great work keep it up
3591: 1. Put the up button back in nautilus. I miss that a lot.
2. It's not obvious at all how to do things like change the overly huge font size the theme. I wish it would be more obvious.
3. The GIO/GVFS bindings for python have always shown a lot promise, but they never seem to fulfill it, as something always seems to be broken when it comes to things like supporting devices like cameras or phones. I really wished they "just worked".
3592: 1. -shortkeys- like for the shutdown. What the hell is wrong with you guys? Why do I have to study computer science just to shut down my system?
2. workspace-switcher. It's really fancy, but I would prefer it, if it wouldn't display everything on it, to everyone standing around me. I liked the one from gnome2. It was decent and no one could see its content, just by looking.
3. configurability/customisability. Hell guys, what the mook have you done? Who are these mainstream-users that you so desperately try to miss-customise gnome for? At least I'm not one of them. I AM NOT stupid, beyond help. Gee, why not try to assume that your mainstream-user are able to use their brains?
YEAH, WORK HARDER AND PREFERABLY FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE LIKE: HEY OUR MAINSTREAM-USERS ARE NOT IMBECILE SO WHY NOT GIVE THEM BACK THEIR SYSTEM-CONFIGURABILITY?
3593: When windows are maximized in gnome shell, they should behave more like they do in Ubuntu's Unity, not wasting precious vertical space.
3594: Revive 2.x
3595: Bring back a permanent indicator of open application windows.
Keep up the good work. :)
Also, I'm not sure which GNOME the survey was asking about... My answers are a mix of 2.x, 3.x & 3.x with unity.
3596: 1. Better fallback mode for gnome3 (should be able to add panel shortcuts easily, like gnome2)
2. Build-in tiling modes (like Compiz or Unity provides)
3. Better vertical panel mode. Currently the icons look bad when using a vertical panel
Make a good fall-back mode to avoid backlash when transitioning to gnome3.
3597: Make a 2D fallback. Bring back a proper task bar. Make task switching easier than using Alt-Tab or the slow eye candy b/s of having to click to the Activities view (bring back a proper task bar).
3598: 1) Stop the widgets pointlessly taking up so much space. Buttons and borders do not need to be so big. At times it feels as though I've gone back to an 800x600 monitor.
2) Advanced configuration should be easier. I would guess that most people who use GNOME are computer enthusiasts, so 'simplifying' everything really just murders discoverability.
3) Get rid of Mono. Sooooo sloooooow.
Not really. Despite all the complaints, it's still come a long way from version 1.4 that I first started using, and it's not as though it stops me working. And it is very nice to look at.
3599: Remove GNOME Shell.
Kill GNOME Shell.
Destroy GNOME Shell.
I do not want a tablet interface for my desktop computer.
3600: Faster, better, sronger
Keep on improving. Kde 4.0 sucked, and 4.3 was the first stable release. Hopefully you guys will get it by then.