What People Are Saying About GNOME [Part 6]

6401: -Better integration with non-native apps (like Lightning instead of Evolution' calendar)
-More customization possibilities without coding .js in files

Keep the good work, Gnome3 is an excellent product.
I like strange little WM like openbox, awesome, windowmaker, so I'm not a complete noob, and I was surprised to love Gnome3 !

6402: thanks for gnome 3 shell did not like gnome 2 felt like using windows.
make it more and more better for nvidia cards

6403: remove fallback mode reminds me of gnome 2
introduce a third tab along with windows and applications
should be able to launch multiple applications simultaneously

thanks for gnome 3 shell it the better than any other desktop env today

6404: - Improve configurability. Do not constrain users to a certain use scenario. What makes sense for someone can aggravate someone else.
- Keep an intuitive (short learning curve for novices) interface (especially launcher) as default. Think of "I want it just to work!" users
- Keep a stable interface. Don't repeat the Unity fiasco when a LOT of Gnome users I know switched to KDE and XFCE.

If you aim to become the "standard desktop"you have to hit two goals: "It just works" for novices and "It obeys to whatever I want" for geeks. Put sensible defaults so someone who has never used Gnome will feel right at home. We're not all Gnome experts

Don't dumb down the interface while adding bells and whistles. While it's good for certain novices, as soon as you get to know a little the platform you need more. However, at that point you're not an expert to know to where dig in (quasi) text configuration (you know what I mean) to try to tweak it in a sensible way.

6405: Where the heck did the options go? I would put the configuration options back into gnome.

Get rid of the fisher price desktop

Use a programming more suitable for a desktop environment than javascript. That has to be one of the stupidest things I have ever seen.

1: LISTEN to the user base and at least be halfway open to implementing some of the changes they have suggested.

6406: 1. Focus more on fallback/classic mode. It's more usable and is good alternative for new users.

2. Make GNOME Shell more configurable. For example, changing desktop fonts should be available out of the box. Entering Activity mode with mouse should be configurable to require a click (not just by putting cursor on upper-left corner).

3. Add more extensions to GNOME Shell, to compensate the loss of features. For example, multiload applet is a must for me.

Please don't remove a choice. Library obsolescence is one of GNOME 3 goals, and the classic interface with that goal alone is what I waited for. GNOME Shell, once fully developed, could be a plus, but not the enforcement, please.

6407: 1. Make the notification area more like KDE4.4's as well as Canonical's gnome2 indicators. However, allow for varying levels of notification (e.g. play sound, notification message, icon change, bring window to focus) and allow customization of these notifications.

2. Make the "Open with other application" load the application list much quicker.

3. Make GDM3 more customizable

For Gnome 3, implement the ability to customize things a lot more. KDE's plasma can be made to look like Gnome 2, Windows, and MacOS. This would be cool for gnome as well. The new UI is not for me, some of it's ideas I really like, but other things hinder usability. For example, pressing the super key gives a list of windows and applications. I like this sometimes, but I still deeply miss the task switcher from pre-3.0. The search function for applications and files is nice as well, but the traditional menu is quicker and easier if I already know what I want and where it is. I MUST be able to pin launchers to the panel, this is very important to me. I would like the ability to have nautilus manage a desktop again, or even perhaps a portion of the desktop. Actually, adding widgets for various things like nautilus, music player controls, weather, clock, system monitor would be great.

I would like an advanced mode for the system settings, sometimes I need to poke at uncommon settings and having a mess of stuff all tabbed doesn't bother me. A cool idea would be configurable appearance there, basically a way to decide which settings are shown, and which are hidden.

I like the new menu to the top-right, Ubuntu 10.04's menu was the best ever IMO. However, I dislike having suspend there instead of shutdown. For selecting wallpapers, a larger and more tiled presentation of the wallpapers would be appealing.

Lastly, please do some more theme customization. (shell, window manager, and GTK themes) I got sick of the black quick, and would like more styles and themes to choose from. The default GTK theme starts to feel boring and tasteless.

While I might sound more suited to KDE, I cannot stand it's bloated feeling on netbooks. (Disclaimer: I have only used 4.5 and before) There are other issues relating to stability and usability(in kde). I can't format a flash drive without opening a partition manager, and I wish they had not removed media:/. Gnome's "Places" menu also has "connect to server" which I like and dolphin doesn't have. I like how remote folders stay mounted until unmounted with an icon on the desktop or computer. Gnome/GTK has a nice feel with it's increased spacing and size between/of GUI elements. I find that using a touchpad, touchscreen, and some mice becomes easier. Just don't over do it, as netbooks have low res screens. KDE has a lot of little things which annoy me, that gnome2 did right.

6408: - Add shortcut and tiling system as in Unity: allow corner tiling, ctrl+alt+numpad for tiling position, move to other screen ...
- Add shortcut to select application in the the "hidden dock" : super+1 for first appli, super+2 for second, ...
- Allow to access the shell with right super key (on my laptop, i have no left super key)

6409: Reliabilty/Perforance
Notifications and systray
Keyboard use in activities/applications views

Add tab completion to applications search. Allow user to add some apps in top menubar, e.g. gmail notifier.

6410: Complete comming back to GNOME 2.x version

6411: better ATI support

6412: For Gnome Shell

Biggest would be increases ease of use from keyboard alone, reducing requirement to use mouse in many aspects.

Include a few of the improvements that Unity has over Gnome shell mostly regarding integration with running programs.
* Menu bar integrated into gnome top panel
* Volume control include controls for active multimedia programs

6413: make it lighter, include gnome-tweak-tool by default, and make more configuration options available via a GUI

please, make gnome lighter. and also available for windows and mac os X if possible.

6414: gnome-3: allow users to modify hot-corner
allow users to modify the time to display seconds
make it so that it doesnt run so slowly on netbooks.

i am using project blue-bubble to restore gnome-2 characteristics in my current distro.

6415: Make more customizable i.e. launcher panel far too big, looks childlike

Needs one click access to applications, too much mouse movement at the moment.

I use Unity on Ubuntu 11.10 as it is much more intuitive, easier to use and allows me to get things done quicker.

6416: Re-build Gnome 2 using Gnome 3 code or at least allow people to choose.
Gnome 3 is very futuristic, and it would be great if we all had touch screens or if it was used on a phone or a tablet, but it's a DE.

Thanks for the hardwork, but I think the community of users for Gnome is a eroding because of the over-reach of Gnome 3. It's too much, too soon.

6417: Change gnome 3 back to 2

6418: nothing :)

im loving it gnome 3 shell rocks!!!
gnome team YOU ARE THE REAL ROCK STARS ;)

6419: When pressing something that is taking a long time, give an indication that the request is acknowledged (such as pressing Activities -> Applications for the first time in a session and it has to go off and compile the list).

Move the application type filter to the left, humans work left to right and top down. Maybe leave it in the current position for right to left languages...

When windows are maximised find a way to optimise the height (title bar is a waste of space, especially on widescreen monitors where height is at a premium)

Why do I have to know the location and binary name to create a application that starts on login - why cant I right click on it and have an "sctions" menu entry to could be start on login?

Despite the nay-sayers I think GNOME3 is a great step forward; I am running it on an old IBM Thinkpad T60 with intel graphics and it runs very well (Xubuntu 11.10 with Gnome-Shell package).

I have looked at Unity and although Gnome-Shell seems to have adopted some of the concepts I think GNOME shell is the better for it and I am very happy using it as my primary desktop.

btw; I dont understand why some IM is built into the status bar and much of the rest resides in Empathy, and Gwibber isnt fully in the same location as the "online accounts" - that bit seems to be a bit of a workin progress.

Overall - great job!

R

6420: 1. Better support for multiple displays. The user should be able to choose a primary display, maybe there should be a hot corner on each display.

6421: 1) I'd throw out the developers who created GNOME 3
2) I'd restart development from GNOME 2.32 dumping that obnoxious Shell

Listen to the users, not to your ego

6422: Since the survey doesn't give any distinction possibility: I am not using any GNOME desktop, but lots of its related applications. I am running WindowMaker since some 10 years and don't intend changing that. Especially since GNOME3 is so much more worse than GNOME2. I really wouldn;t want a smartphone desktop environment on any of my computers.

I am running WindowMaker since some 10 years and don't intend changing that. Especially since GNOME3 is so much more worse than GNOME2. I really wouldn;t want a smartphone desktop environment on any of my computers.

6423: Customisation ability;

Keep up the good work. And listen to your community.

6424: Smaller icons in that Dash-like thing where you find apps. One screenful of apps isn't that many currently.

Faster. It's much too slow.

HARDWARE COMPATIBILITY. It won't even run correctly on my 2 year old gaming computer, dual booting Win7 and Ubuntu 11.10. It runs fine (well, as intended anyway) on my netbook, but it barely runs at all on my gaming computer; graphical errors abound.

6425: Make Mutter faster (x3)

6426: -more options for multi-monitor support (not just a static window)
-icons on desktop
-movable and customizable top-panel
-allow applications to overlap virtual windows
(oops.. that's four)

I don't use much of the new features of gnome-3.

I hate that windows go full screen when I move then to the top of the screen. Can I disable this behaviour?

It takes too many keystrokes to open a new terminal on a new blank virtual screen (click activities, drag terminal onto desktop, click terminal). This should only require 1 click.

The focus on an extra monitor changes when I switch virtual windows o my primary screen. This means I am always hunting for the application that was on top.

I'm glad the task-bar is gone.

6427: - more options and better configurations
- better productivity and better applications (professional and more stable)
- better icon set (modern look)

better applications for better desktop

6428: 1) Give a better shortcut than Alt+F2 for the shell
2) Give more control to the users through more options in System Settings
3) Make the initial load time/startup time less

1) Make Gnome a information and search oriented environment with seamless movement of information between desktop and web apps
2) Formulate a design that all apps must follow to release information. Example, Firefox should `share' its information about bookmarks, tags, history etc. with other desktop and web apps
3) Make system-wide tool with a simple interface, to collect any information from any app. This tool should be always available. For example, I select a pic from ImageViewer, a vid from Totem, a selection of text from gEdit and a web page from Firefox and tie them all together for an event that has been entered in Calendar
4) Focus on your vision for a desktop environment. Remember the amazingly simple yet effective Unix shell interface and know that all GUI created till now is crap with buttons. How to make information accesible between apps?
5) You guys have a great opportunity at hand to rethink what people think of when using their desktop environments.

You guys are pretty good! Keep it up. :)

6429: 1. Click-and-drag onto another file browser window brings the window the the front and gives it focus.

Always allow fallback to GNOME 2.x, as many of us do not like GNOME 3.

6430: Make the dash on the bottom
Make the accessibility Icon toggleable
add shutdown option in User menu

Pretty good DE, bug-free on my system and rock-solid.

6431: I'd really make a big rollback to 2.x series. GNOME 3 is just awful

I know you might be busy, but, sometimes, it's a good thing to listen to the userbase. They are directly exposed to the system daily, all things considered

6432: Probably lower system resource usage.

I think they have done a good job of progressing the GNOME project.

6433: Optimise, optimise and optimise.

Bring back the 2.0

6434: Go back to GNOME 2.32

Go back to GNOME 2.32

6435: An option on Gnome 3 to emulate the Gnome 2 experience.

Only that they should start listening to their community a bit more. If people want to keep Gnome 2 - give it to them (I personally support moving to Gnome 3, but if a lot of people still want Gnome 2 or something that acts like it - give it to them).

6436: Stop pretending my desktop computer is a smart phone
Give me a better choice of text sizes
Give me back my right-click

Gnome has jumped the shark. Bye, guys.

6437: - add more options/configuration possibilities to adjust GNOME (looks/behaviour)
- add properly functioning options in the settings menu
- add advanced options and settings

Please make advanced options and customization possible with GNOME. If you see a danger to overwhelm novice users just add different modes like beginner/advanced/professional. This works well for my router's webinterface for example, so why shouldn't it work for GNOME.It is very annoying when I have to search for a possibility to change something simple (like setting an IP address without DHCP in GNOME 3.0 (Fedoda 15)) because the default options aren't able to do that.
But otherwise I like using GNOME 3 and the way it looks and behaves.

6438: Change is always welcome, but why to force everybody use tablet-oriented desktop environment when most of us still use traditional computers. Also, candy should always be only an option, not hardware requirement. Keep base simple and give options for users, options that are easy to implement.

6439: 1: Make it as configurable as gnome 1 was, before I decided you guys were stuck up asses catering to idiots and forcing windows-y shit upon us like a "registry" and now ".net"

I really can't think of anything else. This progression of Good(gnome1) to Shit(gnome2; the time I said goodbye gnome, hello xfce4!) to Utter Horseshit(gnome3) is pathetic.

Listen to your users. Listen to people who want to use your system because they liked it in previous versions.

Even though Windows has gone from Textual > Gui > Tablet-stylez, the main UI paradigm circa 1995 can still be mostly re-enabled 16 years later. Yes, this speaks volumes of cruft...but also volumes of them actually figuring out what users WANT and PROVIDING IT FOR THEM.

Stop trying to be Useful, then Simple, now We Want To Be Mac but Just Cant Quite Do It!

FOR THE LOVE OF PETE (and pete)

6440: Make Gnome Fallback mode more like GNOME2 (especially ALT-RMB)
Decrease the insane GPU/CPU utilization of GNOME Shell (javascript? you serious?)
Restore features--what's with that excessive dumbing down?

Listen to users and involve the community.
Don't trust usability tests (statistically biased sample).
Don't assume users are stupid.
Get rid of ideology, like "distractionless computing." Seriously, we want to do work over here! Make to software WORK.
About the simplicity of GNOME 3: I gave my cousin in elementary school a copy of Ubuntu 10.04, with GNOME 2. He managed to install it and use it within a few days. Last month, I gave him a copy of UGR, with GNOME 3. He didn't manage to figure how it worked after a week--I had to teach him (Activities? Huh? How do you switch windows, anyway? I can't even shutdown! How do you open another copy of gedit? Where're the workspaces? How do you make the fonts smaller? Where's the keyboard settings? What's with the ugly file manager?)

6441: Actually, I'm pretty happy with Gnome 2.32+Compiz. But:
* Brasero is _way_ too buggy for such a basic function (burning Data DVD's/CD's). It wasn't ready when it was first introduced, and it's still way under par.
* What is up with "startup applications"? Session management is another really basic feature that has always been buggy. And at 2.32 we've ended up with something that works, but with essential features (order of startup applications) removed.
* The documentation is so bad that I simply uninstalled yelp to remove a dependency on webkit. It adds absolutely nothing over the "hover on a control to see what it does" tips (which are often quite good).

I use my gnome desktop every day, for work, for money. When I get the time, I'll check out gnome 3 in a VM. But reaction has been so bad, I'm in no hurry, I'll wait for 3.4. I'm sure there are good ideas in there, and I'm really hoping the kinks will be sorted out before my Gentoo 2.32 installation becomes unmaintanable. But you have to be doing something fundamentally wrong if so many people are complaining: have some respect for your users, please. We're trying to get work done.

6442: Removal of Mono, removal of Mono, and removal of Mono.

Continue to develop the GNOME Shell. I have been using it (3.04 on Debian Testing) for two days and find it has a lot of promise. Fix Network Manager so it does not drop audio streams (WiCD works fine).

6443: Go back to version 2

Go back to 2!

6444: 1. Abandon the disastrous design philosophy that has given us GNOME 3.

2. Create an easy path for the apparent majority of GNOME 2 users who would rather continue using it or something like it regardless of version number or name. An official fork or the like (assuming that already hasn't been done - unofficially at least).

3. Embrace a design philosophy that remembers that the reason most people go to the trouble to use Linux/Unix is to have greater control over their computing experience. Everything on GNOME should be easily modifiable and customizable. GNOME devs should never aim to reduce its abilities or waste time fixing things that aren't broken.

I would like to thank the previous GNOME developers for 8 years of a desktop environment that was clearly entirely superior to the competitors for my uses. Unfortunately, all that came to an end night before last when I upgraded GNOME on one of my Debian Wheezy amd64 machines. Upon reboot, I had gdm errors, my panels were gone along with their drawers and applets, the clock and menus were wrong and out of place, fonts were wrong, internet access was down, etc. I was up until 4:00 in the morning figuring out what had gone wrong. I still can't believe this ugly, crippled, desktop is the intentional design for the future of GNOME.

I'll admit I know very little about the inner workings of GNOME - I haven't needed to. My blissful ignorance should be considered a success by the developers of a desktop! GNOME has looked good and worked well without any big effort on my part since I first encountered it as the Java Desktop System on Solaris 10 sparc in 2004. Now it seems in one seppuku-like stroke GNOME has self-destructed at the philosophical level. If it really is true that I can never again have my panels look like I want, with my drawers and applets in their proper places, with the screensaver of my choice, then it is true that I will never submit to GNOME 3.

It will be annoying and difficult to keep old desktops pinned, create our own forks or switch to a different desktop altogether but thousands like me will survive without GNOME 3. The question is will GNOME 3 survive without thousands like me?

Jim Fregeau
mapson--at--hughes--dot--net

6445: Does the title bar need to be a 1/2 inch tall?
The lack of minimization and window switching is awful.
The whole workflow is alien to both power users and novices.

goodbye i guess.

6446: No fancy effects (wastes time doing the effects)

Do NOT require hardward acceleration for WM actions.

Can we please settle on one sound solution?

6447: exclusively for gnome3:
- Better configuration tools. Gnome-tweak-tools is missing some basic stuff right now. It is not even integrated to the system settings.
- Make things more flexible. I mean, why can't we use the gnome tools in any other environment ? For example, it seems that networkmanager needs a WM to be run from GDM to work. It doesn't alter my use of gnome since i'm using exclusively gnome right now, but it would calm a lot of people complaining about those things.

Maybe you should have waited before going mainstream with Gnome3. It's clear that a lot of people are unhappy with what is happening. Maintaining a gnome2 branch as an official release a little more wouldn't harmed anyone, and it might have allowed to make a more painless transition for the complaining people. Or a less habits-breaking official UI, such as MSGE would have been a good thing for the transition.
Personnaly, though, I have no real complain. Keep up the good work !

6448: - drop overview mode from gnome-shell
- put applications menu to where activities is now
- bring back workspace switcher, next to applications menu

Overview mode is unnecessary and annoying. Makes even the most trivial actions (starting an app, switching a window etc.) slower, visually aggressive and (ironically) more cluttered then ever before. People that don't want "distractions" could already use autohide option that the panel had to remove the panel from view when focused on the task at hand. Notifications are a different problem completely and user should be able to turn them off (overview notwithstanding).

Either bring back the panel or make shell act more like it. Take into account complaints of folks that are being annoyed with nonsensical actions (e.g. click on terminal doesn't start a new one).

Compile shell code. Sure, scripting is nice for quick and dirty fixes (i.e. extensions that essentially fix overview insanity), but running interpreted code all the time, even with JITs etc., is just nuts.

6449: I want compiz back

6450: The ability to clear recent file history.
better front end for changing the window environment.

Great job in trying something different, that works for me.
Today computers should be more graphic driven as I did like
beOS.

6451: Put applets, like those I've used to attach in gnome-panel in Gnome 2.

If you are going to inovate, okay, that is good. But do not drop out of the blue features that are important to many people. Gnome 3 is to me like having a restaurant I used to go in a daily basis and one they relised they've dropped from the menu everything I liked and used to eat and put a whole buch of new things that badly resembles food.

6452: 1. Made minimalistic theme, that it wouldn't take all my laptop's vertical space.

2. I would fix that 3.x gnome's annoying bug when popup window is hidden by some stuff (upper pannel).

3. I would chnage the vscroll. When you use e.g. Audacity and you have a lot of plugins(~100) and when you open that pluging top menu its verry hard to locate needed one, because the horizontal vscroll is kind of crappy.

Please, gnome 3.x developers, don't forget about PC without touch-screen.

Thank you for your work! :)

6453: I'd add more configurability back in.
I'd move back to a human-readable menu driven interface.
I'd not attempt to innovate for the sake of innovation and only make improvements that are/can be perceived as actual improvements by the community at large.

6454: I am not fond of Gnome-shell for it's lack of customization and incompatibility with compiz. I prefer a GTK3 version of Gnome 2.xx, if you please. Thanks.

6455: For current versions of GNOME I'd add the functionality to revert the desktop application bar to how it was previously in Gnome 2.x for this reason alone I do not use GNOME 3.* and am highly frustrated with the project. Another thing I'd change is bring COMPIZ back. It's useful software (with the use of keybinded commands and such) and it's fun to look at so there's no good reason to exclude it.

Stop trying to emulate OSX with your UI design. Gnome 2.x was perfect (and the reason I switched to it from KDE was because KDE ruined their desktop with the advent of KDE 4). The way things are integrated with GNOME 3 is a very nice feature and helps to reduce distractions. Keyboard shortcuts are also a very nice feature of using a *nix desktop environments so keeping that fact in mind will also make the end-user experience more productive.

6456: 1. Continue Gnome 2 and recognize its vitality and maturity for the workflows it handles well.
2. Break out the process of finding applications or files from the dogma of presenting pretty buttons. It takes forever, pane-hunt-click after pane-hunt-click.
3. Continue to support extensions that serve a work-flow purpose (I still use my Palm for scheduling; it is not clear that there is ANY calendaring replacement in Evolution. So I have to put on my programming hat -- or, oh wait, continue to use the earlier release!

It appears that classic software development foibles have led to all this criticism. First, the mature project does not have the glamour of the new work to which developers can contribute creative ideas, but it works and the new product will have initial flaws. Second, the development has to follow a satisfactory review of the requirements to be met by the final product. Third, keeping up with the latest wave of GUI features is not a replacement for painstakingly tracking the workflows set out in requirements analysis and leading to the least number of user interactions to accomplish a task - with the least effort by the user, the shortest time taken, and the most pleasant experience. Fourth, as with the pilot plugin, decisions were made to withdraw support without apparent consideration of just what stranding users means. An upgrade which withdraws support is not an upgrade, it is a very unpleasant surprise. So I am typing on the spare machine I set up in case there was a hardware failure - and would never have guessed it was a software failure that would have put me back on it.

6457: 1. Keep the 2.* DE maintained. It worked for actual users, and it worked very well. Develop this Shell thing on the side if you really want to

2. If not that, make the new UI more "discoverable". I was literally at a loss with it when it was dumped on me a week ago by Debian. I just ran away screaming to XFCE (if not for XFCE, I guess I'd have to finally buy a Mac or something)

3. If not that, at least provide enough knobs to make it possible for a user to bring the Gnome 3 UI up to the 2.* level, functionality-wise

1. You are not Apple, guys. You've proven time and again that you don't know better than your users, so get down from that tree and listen to them

2. Also, the more the GNOME 3 fiasco progresses, the more you guys look like stuck-up assholes, sorry. It's time for serious damage control. You just don't discontinue good working things like that, such things are simply Not Done

6458: please improve the default adwaita fonts
please remove the removable devices popup or make it disappear after few seconds
better nvidia and amd graphics integration

gmome 3 shell is the desktop environment i was waiting for
could not be more pleased.

6459: 1. Give up on gnome-shell and go back to gnome-panel
2. Provide more configuration options
3. Force gnome developers to use laptops with small screens, touchpads and no usb mice.

1. Listen to your users!

6460: Aucune de mes cartes graphiques n'est prise en charge, je suis donc en mode restreint, je ne peux donc rien configurer :-(((((

6461: - Support for gnome 2.x
- independence from 3D accel
- more configurability

Reopen maintenance for gnome 2.x!

6462: Return to the cascading menus of yesteryear; the traditional menu-based metaphor has served users VERY well for oh, 30 years, and to do away with it because "it would be great on a tablet" ignores the large userbase. Look at the downloads on DistroWatch.com and see where Linux Mint 12 RC is. It comes with Mate, a GNOME 2.x fork, which has the usual GNOME 2.x menus we have all been using for quite some time. Yes, I'm dipping into GNOME 3, and there are things to like. I do NOT like the loss of certain controls, the lower panel, etc. It seems poorly designed for multitasking. I usually log out (a dodgy thing on this RC) and use Mate or XFCE (once I can figure out how to move windows :)).

Rant over. Three things:
1. Give us the option to use the GNOME 2.x menus and to make the screen look and act the way the USER wants.
2. Keep working on the interface. KDE 4 was a horrid mess when it started; it still makes me grit my teeth to use, but it's usable these days. Note that KDE 4 allows for the KDE-style menu OR the Gnome-type at the user's discretion.
3. More extensions!

6463: 1. Close window (Maximise & Minimise not really required) button on top left of each window - I set this manually via Configuration Editor > desktop > gnome > shell > windows > button_layout='close:'.

2. More detailed control via system settings.

3. Shutdown & suspend included with logout.

I love Gnome 3 OS and its 'minimalist' approach. I have installed G3-shell on Ubuntu 11.10 and find it meets my needs very well. I dislike the global menus and much prefer them integrated with each window.

I would have thought those requiring system bars, menus and desktop icons, etc. would be KDE users - I like the direction G3 is being developed - keep up the great work, it is appreciated.

6464: about everything (gnome3)

drop altogether gnome3 (call it gnome-vista) and start gnome4 as a proper desktop environment not a tablet environment

6465: Better font configuration. This is what I really miss from GNOME2. I never really used it for anything much except to get LCD sub-pixel rendering going and to tune desktops for very small screens (e.g. 1024x768).

Don't listen to the GNOME3 whiners. It's a huge step forward.

6466: 1.autohide top activities bar so that i can have more screen space
2.always show bottom bar so that running apps can be selected/switched easily
3.the removable devices notification does not disappear make it to disappear after few seconds
4.in nautilus add a plus icon to create new tabs just like google chrome.
5.better fonts for gnome3 shell default adwaitha not good.
6.vertical placement of apps instead of horizontal placement
7,option to launch multiple apps simultaneously

gnome 3 shell is definitely the step in right direction

6467: -- Make the fallback to 2.x the default.
-- Hide Unity or 3.0 behind an advanced button.
-- On the advanced button that enables Unity or 3.0, warn users that this option is only intended for people who want to focus on battling the GUI rather than getting things done.

I don't think this survey can give correct statistics about people's opinions, so you should be very careful about how you interpret the statistics. I'm quite sure lots of people who are disappointed with the new GNOME just give up on this survey, because there's no way to give an unambiguous opinion.

For example, does GNOME do what I want? It's either yes, definitely, or no, not at all. The 2.0 fallback that I'm using all the time is great, it's fabulous, there are only a few quite marginal drawbacks here and there. Meanwhile, each time I test Unity it interferes a lot with my work, even though I've really tried to learn it. As for GNOME 3.0, apparently it uses a philosophy similar to Unity's, so apparently it's equally hindering.

So if I click on this survey's positive answers, will I be counted as a proponent of Unity and 3.0? Or if I click on the negative answers, will I be counted as opposing 2.x? At first I decided to evade the unavoidable error by giving up entirely on the survey. Only on a later visit to the webpage did I notice that I could skip the unanswerable questions.

I'm sure lots of people do give up on the survey, so the statistics will be quite wrong.

I find it very embarrassing that I can no longer recommend out-of-the-box Ubuntu to people. I've spoken about Ubuntu with such a firmly positive attitude, the change is really seriously embarrassing.

6468: In "Pop-Up-Dialoges" I would appreciate an "advanced" button, which pulls down more options (in cases where you would use the terminal or gconf instead of the gui window of the opend application). kinda hard to explain... :S

6469: Get rid of the bloat, keep everything highly configurable! The whole point of using FOSS is to keep options open. If I wanted everything to look like someone else's idea of how I should be using a computer, I'd be on OSX. (Of course, OSX is at least done with forethought and taste.)

Have fun. I'm on XFCE now, not likely to come back.

6470: 1. more advanced user settings/extensions
2. better dual screen support
3. better workspace support (i.e. switching via mouse wheel)

Find the balance between team vision and user feedback.

6471: 1. a real desktop environment
2. that can be usable
3. with no need tweaking it

1. a real desktop environment
2. that can be usable
3. with no need tweaking it

so sad im not gonna use gnome any more..
i believe nothing will bring back the old style/use :/

6472: Return it to a more traditional desktop

Try again, you got it wrong this time.

6473: scrap gnome 3 shell and create workspaces instead.

gnome 3 shell is geared towards touch sensitive devices not so suitable for power computing

gnome should be completely redesigned using concept of workspaces
1.workspace is self contained and designed for specific purpose
2.workspace can be easily created/customised by users as per requirement
3.one size does not fit all so workspace concept gives all power to users to design the workspace as per their requirement
4.by default the desktop env should contain several predefined workspaces which cannot be customised
5.workspace is future of desktop computing .

6474: More settings and customization opportunities
Widgets in Gnome Shell (maybe there is allready)
Stability improvement

Don't give up good work, GNOME Shell i great environment.
Please, work on stability (I know it will take a while to remove all bugs) and on better opportunities of settings and customization of the system.

Thank's for great job!

6475: I'm not entirely sure

6476: Add permanently visible notification area and taskbar
More complex setting utility
Allow to delete files using delete key

Gnome 3 is different, but after some time I using it, I found it is not so bad, some features (Activities) are really good.

6477: layout of the main panel (return to old style)
launchpad
software center

6478: layout of the main panel (return to old style)
launchpad
software center

6479: 1) Chance to define stable virtual desktops (I liked to have my applications placed on certain named desktops]

Good work, thank you.

6480: speed, better desktop adjustment, faster response

I like Gnome Shell so much, but please do it bit faster. It's very slow on Atom(Lenovo S10e). Gnome 2 was the best/fastest choice for my netbook. G3 is in my opinion three times slower than G2. But I like the way of G3 anyway. RestekP

6481: Widget support like a widget screen you could pull forth,
much more settings like advanced setting to get it more flexible for the pros.

get widgets + make it support kde plasma widgets.
i want my advanced settings back for more customizability.

other than that continue your great work.

6482: Nothing - everything works good - nothing to report. :-)

Personally, nothing. Only, keep this good work rockin'! :-)

6483: return to older concept (gnome panel or similar)
more settings
compiz

6484: Saving of vertical space - Lines in Nautilus should be thinner, there are way too high toolbars etc.
Uniting left and right click in the indicator applets.
Uniting application menus just as Mac OS X does (I know exactly where to find e.g. application settings) - Not a problem of GNOME? Well, ... it is a problem of GNOME as well.

Thank you, guys. I appreciate your work.

6485: Please let us have a choice to swich back to Gnome 2.X

Ubuntu with Unity is terrible, Gnome 3.x is not much better... From this change I am still looking for updated replacement of Gnome 2.x.
Thanks for your work for Linux!!!!

6486: 1) Gnome 2 is better than Gnome 3. Return to previous concept.
2) Drag and drop in main menu. Main menu editor is not good solution.
3) Mount icons inline and on bottom of desktop.

Keep up the good work, but I will change to Xfce. I can't stand with new concept in Gnome 3.

6487: 1) Return evolution process back to GNOME 2! G2 is almost perfect. G3 and Shell is terrible mistake.
2) Better file filter for Nautilus (similar like Dolphin).
3) View files in Nautilus is slow.

Stop Gnome3, return back to Gnome2.
I left KDE when the KDE4 arrived, because KDE4 was terrrible mistake. I found almost perfect desktop in the Gnome2. Now I stayed with Gnome2 and I don't know, what next. Gnome 3 is worse then KDE4 - it's terrible stupid mistake! Gnome Team make same mistake like a KDE Team. The first mistake (KDE4) can be forgiven, but repeating the same mistake (Gnome3) is incomprehensible.
Thanks

6488: - to have 3 buttons to control each window (min, max, close)
- to be able to shut down computer directly (no need to press Alt)
- to be able to set up system more detailed, including pre-defined themes etc.

thanks for your work!

6489: Back to 2.x
Back to 2.x
Back to 2.x

Back to 2.x really tried to use 3gnome. There is nothing to setup nothig to let me configure ... its win Shit not Linux freedom

6490: mainly panel(in the new version gnome i miss classic panel)
nothing else

nothing :)

6491: 1) Allow to define default audio input / output to make always some external (like bluetooth) headset as the default when it's connected.
2) Better integrated SIP (VoIP) softphone. Empathy / telepathy is unusable at this moment from quality of implementation and usability reasons.

6492: Make it faster, better search optimalization. Gnome feels like a rock in terms of freshness and speed. It looks good but it is slow as a snail.

6493: Thank you for all

6494: - allow GNOME 3 extensions by default
- add option to change the position of 'activities'
- add option not to roll application window from the current in some cases, for instance if I want to save file from web browser the new window just roll from the top and there is no chance to move it, so if I want to see, copy, est. from my web browser window I have to close the 'save as' window. Quite annoying.

I want to contribute, right now I study gtk+. I have experiences in python, C++, php and I have 3 hours in a week for you :o) If you need someone like me contact me: [email protected]

6495: all running applications could have small icon in notification area (gnome shell 3)

6496: - Bring back my configurable panels -- with task switcher, notification area (systray) and application menus.

- Get rid of the auto-create-workspaces "feature". I want my four screens the way I've used them before -- a defined number that are blank until I place stuff on them. This auto stuff just makes it hard to find my applications.

- Stop hiding settings. If you necessarily want to hide them because they are "too complex", make that optional with a Dummy/Expert mode. ASK the user which mode to use, and make the switch between dummy/expert mode easy to find for dummies. Removing the minimize button is just plain stupid.

Revert. Please.

6497: More stability.
Search in overview should be instant.
More configurable, extensions should not be necessary for base things.

6498: Graphic - the default theme is not pretty for my eyes - i know I can use other themes, but the default one should be representative

show open windows/programs all the time - moving to activities and then find out what window i want is contraproductive - takes too much time and focuses out my concentration from task I am doing - there is a plugin for it, but it is not working everywhere (or with custom themes)

effects - less = better, and no acceleration needed with no effects.

make nautilus work better with gvfs, it times out with ftp, no fun to work with

^above :]

6499: Menus - how they arrange apps in groups (Gnome 2)
Icons - they look really old school
Colors - few nice default themes would do good :)

6500: alt+f2 was better in 2.X