What People Are Saying About GNOME [Part 6]
5601: Make it more configurable
Make it easy to configure
Then stop trying to fix what ain't broke (the same applies to kde, of course)
Tablets and smart-phones are very trendy. That doesn't make it sensible to pretend that a desktop computer has a phone-sized display
5602: Almost nothing. Just make a better wine.
Not at all. They are doing well
5603: Inclusion of a MacOSX like doc
Still the best linux desktop environment out there
5604: Make it easier to tweak all aspects of the ui. More speed and stability.
5605: 1. The entire look & feel that is treating me as if I'm an idiot, I'm not!
2. Separate it into modes, eg:
a. Fondleslab/mobile devices, this is what GNOME 3 is right now, or
b. Laptop/desktop, basically for people with mouse pointer.
3. The devs.
I tried, but I cant. It seems, GNOME 3 is just not for me.
Open your eyes and ears, and don't ignore feedbacks from people like me.
5606: easier customization of look and feel (especially colors, wm borders, etc)
better interoperability (eg with thunderbird, etc)
faster launch (eg gdm)
and one bonus:
I miss a good old "taskbar" sometimes when I need to switch between more than 2 windows: now I have one more step for each switch (1: bring activities or switcher, 2: choose the window)
Overall, I am quite convinced by the gnome-shell UI principles.
(whereas I stopped using KDE after kde4 was out, and did not use gnome 2 for very long because of its "heavyweight" feeling). Please note that I recently upgraded my desktop PC, so I'm not really able to distinguish heavyweight from lightweight anymore ;-)
5607: - better integration with other programs (eg. pidgin)
- more light weight
- again more light weight (I do not need eyecandy transitions etc.)
5608: 1. Peoples, "I like it the old way attitude! Get off you high horse you old fart"
2. Better font rendering or finer fonts. I've always wanted this on the free desktops.
3. Can't think of anything else
I think you guys are doing an awesome job. I have used Gnome from the early Ximian days. Switched to KDE, back to Gnome, back and forth, to LXDE, etc. Finally back to Gnome since version 3 and very happy. I don't think its a Next/OS-X or WinX Rip-Off. It feels totally unique. And works great without a mouse.
Thanks..
PS. One suggestion. Could someone add vi or emacs keybindings for navigation the Shell? That would be a nice touch.
5609: Better backward compatibilty to Gnome2
Better multi-monitor support
Better input support (remapping of mouse buttons, joystick configuration, etc.)
5610: 1. Much more settings/customizations! The current situation is crap.
2. More plugins!
3. I want my task icons back!
1. Give the users much more choice to customize the enviroment
5611: Only one thing nedds empasizing, but that one's all the more important: configurability. I can get most things working _my_ way through CLI, but, really, this is 2011. We shouldn't _have_ to tweak config files by hand to get the computer working the way we want it to. And noobs have no way whatsoever of molding the machine into something they're comfortable with.
Configurability through the GUI.
5612: APP LAUNCHER!
Task bar
Tray
Gnome 3.x sucks, going KDE way, I need an usable desktop.
5613: - the new tab behavior
- the dock behavior (click should always start a new window)
5614: Gnome 3 could do with some easier customization options. I'd love if there was a way to search files using gnome shell.Also maybe steal the music applet that unity has where you can just click the volume button and then have Banshee or some other music players controls right there. Make it easier to do things with the keyboard. Crtl+alt+tab is okay but does not seem to work if there is more than one window and is kinda slow and awkward to use.
Maybe better integration with thunderbird. Evolution is kinda poopy. Plus what does online accounts do? I enabled it but I can't tell anything happened. Perhaps the calendar on the title bar should scrape from your google calendar?
5615: shell, shell, shell
gnome shell sucks donkey balls
5616: Don't go to MS Metro
5617: 1. Speed up the search box.
2. Cups integration sucks. Deleting a task doesnt work and i have to log in to cups via the browser to do it.
3. The notifications on the middle of the bottom of the screen are confusing. I want to click a button on the active window but it doesnt work because theres a notification present.
Good job on Gnome 3! Dont mind all the winers. Most people just hate change even if its good change. If up was up to the majority we would still be using windows 3.1 and wordperfect!
5618: A small niggle I have when I'm using the shell is if I move my mouse to the bottom right to do something, suddenly the notification bar jumps out at me, hiding the button I was trying to click. I thought in this modern day and age that user interface features that appear out of nowhere are frowned upon.
There is still a lack of options/settings available through the shell interface and programs.
Keep up the good work!
5619: The ability to do what I want with my desktop...
Get a clue listen to you users.
5620: I would stop dumbing down the interface and removing functionality.
Give people back control of their desktop.
Stop dumbing it down - let the idiots use Windows/Unity.
Gnome-shell pushed me off Gnome. Unity is just as bad. I'm now a Gnome refugee using KDE - and happier for it.
5621: Don't break my computer. I gave up on K, don't make me give up on Gnome.
5622: 1. Dump GNOME Shell and Unity for a dockbar at the bottom of the screen and notifications at the top of the screen.
2. Dump dconf/gconf aka GNOME Registry in favor of advanced options in individual applications.
3. Restore System Settings to what it was under GNOME 2.x with mature configuration tools for everything.
This 3.x release was a HUGE step backwards for the community (which you did not listen to). KDE made the same mistake with 4.x series at the start but they listened and accepted help as the project matured. Fortunately, there are GTK+ library based DE's like Xfce and LXDE to turn to. GNOME could learn a lot from them.
5623: Since 3.x:
a) multitasking/switching between open windows is virtually impossible in an easy and speedy manner with just the mouse, compared with Gnome 2.x and using the windows list/buttons panel (a la KDE/Win). This is a total dealbreaker for me since Gnome 3.x only makes this harder.
b) seeing which minimised windows are open is now impossible without user interaction. I want to see that all the time, as was the standard before, because:
c) custom text in minimised windows titles that display info can't be seen now while I work with other programs.
Please don't turn Gnome into something that assumes that people will run it mainly on touch devices. There is no need for some kind of simplified & dumbed down version of iOS-ish desktop.
Gnome is meant to be _productive_. Many of the changes in 3.x made it _less_ so according to a majority of users, around the world and cross culture. While some are just conservative tech fanatics, many also have good arguments and points. Many user case scenarios can be also measured and quantified. I have a hard time imagening many desktop cases where Gnome 3.x leads to better workflow and a higher general productivity in _multitasking_ scenarios, while it probably performs better in simple-task environments.
Truth be told, it is almost pointless to steer Gnome in the direction of touchscreens. Toucscreens are not, and can not ever, be as productive as a normal desktop solution with a nice huge screen, mouse and keyboard hooked to it. Productivity isn't something that is born on netbooks or tablet toys. It's something people unleash on desktops. The category of computers and people you totally miss out on with Gnome 3.x due to almost zero support to efficient multitasking.
5624: More customisability
Have Evince support more document formats
Deprecate Mono and push Vala more
Thanks for the best Free Software desktop environment :)
5625: personality
appearance
speed
No, I'm not qualified except for the input I've made and occasional graphics. The Gnome Team seems to have things under control and I must confess I mostly use KDE. I like the ability I have with it and so too Enlightenment to modify and give them a personal feel and appeal.
5626: 1. GET OVER YOUR OSX FETISH AND FORGET GNOME 3.
2. REALIZE YOUR USERS ARE NOT RETARDS. This is linux after all.
3. Make a cursor with a gnome doing jumping jacks when loading. MORE GNOMES OVERALL
i like gnomes. i dont like GNOME.
5627: *Less dependency on single client for mail and calendar integration.
*Option for vertical dock bar, as newer screens are wide and short.
*Include recently copied and downloaded files in recent items search.
*Display the day of the month besides the day of the week on the dock.
*When choosing where to save a file, if you click on an existing file it changes the input text to that file's name, but often we do that by mistake while traversing directories, and there isn't an obvious way to recover the original name of the file you're saving.
GNOME3 is Awesome, congratulations!
5628: Not crazy about Gnome 3. No minimize or maximize? REALLY??
5629: Decent "spotlight" equivalent
Expose with the ease of the mouse gestures
5630: more advanced control over monitor settings. i.e. when connected to a 16.9 TV and bottom of display not fitting onto the screen there is no easy way of changing the aspect ratio to fit (ATI open source driver)
5631: 1. SMOOOTH SCROLLLLING!!!!!!!!!
2. WM tabbing
3. Restart G2 efforts
Listen to your users, active marketing advocates lead you into nowhere.
5632: Suspend, hibernate, power off in the menu.
Battery indicator on toolbar.
ATI GPU Support.
Loving 3.2 keep it up guys!
5633: Throw away Gnome 3
5634: Throw away Gnome 3
5635: In Gnome 2, would love to have right click menus a la Openbox, XFCE
5636: 1. Reduce screen real-estate wastage (titlebars etc) for laptop usage
2. Allow for 2D representation of workspaces (I prefer having WSs above & below as well as left & right)
3. Improve integration with files & devices. Getting rid of the desktop makes sense, but access to these items feels quite vague without a concrete presence in the shell.
Keep going. You're doing what's needed, but it'll take a while to bed in.
5637: - Notifications dont work and have many problems
- More customization (gconf-editor is too much)
- Multi-monitor support has some issues
Focus on stability and bug fixes and not in new features.
5638: First, GNOME would stop treating its users like infants. Viewing materials from the GNOME team certainly feels like getting lectured--and often the messages are not even true. In the videos now on the site there are cases where something that's described as "easier" in GNOME 3 literally takes more clicks than it did in GNOME 3. So yes, I want my settings back (actually I want every setting I can possibly get), and no, gnome-tweak-tool is not a tool for "power users;" it doesn't even have the settings to make basic use possible. The second thing I would change is to allow people more options with items on the dash. "GNOME 3 is beatiful." Well, it looks pretty terrible when the default icons for most of my programs are tiny little pixel maps expanded into a giant icon, and there's nothing I can do to fix it (Even in windows I can right click on icons to bring up a "Properties" dialog box). For a third thing, and this is really important, I would fix the color settings for the default Adwaita theme. It is truly not acceptable to have light gray text on slightly lighter gray background for the title bar of inactive windows. This literally gives me a severe headache, especially since it took me quite a while to figure out how to change it (Documentation telling me that I have to log out and back in now, anyone? It wasn't necessary before, but apparently users should magically know?).
It's difficult for me to offer suggestions because I don't understand what the GNOME team is trying to accomplish. Many other angry users like me have speculated that GNOME is trying to attract Windows or Mac users who aren't really anything like Linux users of the past. If this is true, I would really suggest GNOME should take an entirely different approach. The "Activities" view is neat, but it's not enough to actually attract users because it's actually quite cumbersome compared to, e.g., the Windows 7 Super Bar. And not allowing shortcuts on the desktop by default is really a killer for these users. If the main goal is more users, there really needs to be a convincing argument that GNOME will make everything easier and do nothing that condescends on the way they want to use a computer.
5639: Add a minimal mode -- the least amount of stuff I need running to get a menu and launch programs.
Stop changing components for the sake of change. Especially after having suffered through 2 revs of something and nearly getting to a point where it is no longer useless and annoying (gam_server, beagle, trackerd, ?) (alsa, oss, essd, pulse, jack, ?)
First, I should say thank you. You have done a good job of making a desktop environment that mostly works. I should also point out that some of my issues probably come from poor choices on the vendors part (RedHat, Fedora, Ubuntu) rather than something inherent in GNOME. In my defense, it is staggeringly difficult to figure out how to separate their choices from those of the GNOME team. My main problem is that I don't like having stuff change constantly. I figure out how to get what I want and then two releases later it's out of vogue and the control and the daemons change and then I've got to figure out what to do or give up caring about having control of my computer. Fine... Another solution would be just don't upgrade. Sadly, that doesn't work either. All the cool kids go and compile (or worse, CODE) their apps against only the latest versions of gnome and then I cannot use slightly newer versions of firefox or chrome because they won't work on my old OS. So, I must upgrade and I must have things change constantly and GNOME seems be pushing a lot of the changes.
Sometimes things change and really gets in the way. When trackerd starts up, people notice that their machines slow down and comment about it. Now I've got to kill trackerd. The only way I know it kill trackerd is to remove the binary. The package itself is required (so I cannot remove it without gutting the system) and something ""helpfully"" spawns it if I kill it or do not start it. (that's on Fedora 10. Others?)
I cannot set the day of the week that my calendar begins on (I could back on FC3, but since FC5 it gets set from someplace else automatically). Fine. Now, under F14, I have my choice of temperature in degrees centigrade, farenheit or KELVIN, wind speed in miles per hour, knots, meters per second, or the BEAUFORT SCALE. How does that remove confusing choices from the novice user? (and what possible practical use is the having the outside temperature in KELVIN???)
I hate the impossible game of tag with the notify-osd pop-ups. When I try to click on them to make them go away (because I cannot figure out how to disable them completely) they just vanish and return once I move the mouse back to what I was working on before I was interrupted. (that was Ubuntu 10.04)
NetworkManager... I'm not sure that's your fault. most of my problems aren't strictly NetworkManager's fault either... but stuff just worked before... now stuff works sometimes and sometimes it doesn't and I have to guess if it because NetworkManager has some different idea about the state of the network...
Also, I like emacs keys. and I like emacs in xterms. The best part is where the xterm program actually works exactly how xterm is supposed to work. Sometimes zvt and vte try to ""improve"" on xterm by not working exactly like xterm. (that was on Fedora 7)
5640: *application icons attached to the corners of windows in the windows view
*more extensive and intuitive arrow key navigation in the shell
*icons in the applications menu arranged according to frequency of use
keep up the awesomeness
5641: eliticism
arrogance
abandonment of the existing user base
they won't listen anyway as they know better...
5642: Faster access to applications.
A friendly quickstart guide the first time Gnome3 is loaded.
5643: -Make sure gnome never does what unity is doing with its taskbar.
-Add more monitor options.
-Add the 3d effects to the monitor options.
It would be great to have the Windows7 feature of moving programs on the taskbar to different locations along the taskbar.
5644: I wouldn't change 2.X, 3.X... well that is a different story.
Go with what works and stop trying to be like everyone else, GNOME 2.X is a great UI and shouldn't be abandoned so quickly.
5645: more customization options in Gnome Shell
5646: * Activities dock
click always lunches new app instance, and opened windows can be displayd in tooltip
* Multimonitor
I have two same monitors and current setup is nightmare for usability
* Proxy, WiFi authentication
Proxy is needed only in some locations and traveling with laptop needs changing settings when changing location, wifi needs authentication by browser it should be automated
Fix multimonitor setups!
5647: Keep up the good work and ignore all the hate mail, Gnome 3 rocks!!!
5648: How to set up gnome development enviroment with eclipse and javascript completion
5649: Please integrate something like gnome-tweak-tool in to the main system settings. Its pretty absurd that I have to use a third party app to change my fonts and icons.
5650: 1. Bring back the classic Applications, System, etc. menu.
2. Keep the application menu on Unity always visible.
3. Add a sub-menu on every application menu entry with recent files what can be opened with that application.
1. Dump Mono: Port all apps (ie. TomBoy) from Mono to Vala.
2. Make Nautilus diff or show side-by-side files when overwriting it.
5651: Starting with ubuntu 10.10 Zoom In and Zoom Out showed as an Unkown Function (or application). Can't remember which, but I went to the trouble of re-installing ubuntu 10.04. The keyboard shortcut of Zoom Out and Zoom In still work in ubuntu 10.10 I felt safer with ubuntu 10.04.
Stick with Gnome 2. as the Gnome development base.
Add function, but do not remove function, the users may depend on what you remove.
Check for Windows infiltrators on your team, especially former Vista developers.
Forget about Gnome 3! They have taken out good user interfaces and replaced them with some ridiculous functions. Some examples:
Gnome Panel, Workspace Switcher, the ability to change the appearance of application screens (they actually provide a mixed bag with the close application icon on both left and right, hidden as well.
Someone is apparently fascinated with cursor roll over.
I run two installations on my machine: ubuntu 10.04 and ubuntu 11.10, but I now run ubuntu 10.04 for production and just allow updated on ununtu 11.10 to follow the destruction of Gnome.
Ubuntu release 11.04 and 11.10 is worse that Windows Vista. I have used them both to my utter frustration.
5652: GO BACK TO PREVIOUS VERSION
Continue a development fork of 2.0+ - why spoil a good thing?
Create a separate branch for netbooks for satisfied users of GNOME 3+ if you really have to.
5653: Have it work with Xmonad.
5654: 1. Run the gauntlet toward Wayland; get off of X11.
2. Work on getting Epiphany at parity with Chromium: page-process isolation, rendering improvements, UI simplicity (no menu bar).
3. Split Evolution into discrete (but integratable) components.
4. Consider making LibreOffice the GNOME office suite of choice.
1. Keep working on finding the balance between simplicity and flexibility. The pendulum swings...
2. Make sure Tweaks remains a first-class GNOME citizen to allow power users to change behavior.
5655: A horizontal layout for workspaces, vertical is not natural for me.
Make accessing hidden wifi easier.
Make it possible to have a view of cpu/ram usage like System Monitor in gnome 2.x
Keep up the good work.
5656: give more power to user
make it more customizable
applets in gnome-panel especially 'system monitor'
you fols are awesome :)
5657: 1. add more functionality to the mouse right button.
2. More customization.
3. Doing the above so that i can stay at gnome and not ever consider going back to kde.
5658: Add more opinions for power management for all modes of battery and
AC power.
keep up good work. I have very few complaints. I would like hibernate, suspend, turn off as opinions for power management with or without AC or battery, and making it possible to decide to actual time in minutes plus seconds manual or nothing. Could they not be fill in the blank or battery/ac then specify how long and what to do with critical turn off and under what condition such as battery at what level to shutdown or suspend.
5659: I would not change anything
thanks for your work, there are always users who are looking for something new
5660: Usability. For instance treating users as idiots (through hiding configuration options etc.)
Gnome Shell.
Gnome Shell.
Stop treating users as idiots and USE experience from creating Gnome 2.x instead of wasting it. Gnome 3.x is currently unusable.
5661: 1. better ease of use
2. better system wide settings control. Why does setting the Time-Format to 24-hour-format not change the time-format to 24-hour-format everywhere on the computer?
3. better customizablity by being able to turn features on and off
why can i not easily change font size in Gnome 3.2? This is inexcusable!
5662: quit the phone look, give back freedom of choice, give us back the ability to make it look the way we want it to.
Ditch the retard approach to desktops and develop a really killer desktop building on 2x. The 3 series is a piece of crap.
5663: Ease of use, currently I'm using Fallback Mode because it's more organised than the "full experience" in my opinion, although it lacks a lot of functionality without compiz or the "full Gnome3" effects
Organise the Applications menu better.
5664: more configurability for panel layouts, window behavior, mouse/key bindings
5665: I really miss the top panel in order to manage the different panel specially the system monitor.
Gnome3 in the beginning was traumatic, if the developers was take a moment to wrote a small doc how use the new features, shortcuts and other "amazing" features will be a more exited user experience.
5666: 1 less eyecandy, more speed
2 easier to install Gnome 3 on distro's not supporting (yet)
3 more straight forward customisation options
Thank you.
5667: 1. Gnome 3 is severely lacking in conf options
2. Stability improvement - gnome 3 is still pretty flaky with the shell disappearing/reappearing multiple times per day.
3. Move the reveal windows hot spot from the left corner to maybe the bottom left. I hit it my mistake all the time.
5668: PLAIN TEXT SETTINGS
Where did hibernate go? Why do I have to hold down ALT to get "Shutdown" on the menu?
Focus stealing and dialogue boxes are a disaster.
Listen to your users.
There is no one right way to do things. Imposing one workflow on users is insulting.
Why do I have to put up with a shitty simplified interface designed for laptop-using numpties on my desktop PC?
5669: Go back to GNOME 2.0 panel. Make 2.x style available a la Unity 2D instead of Unity 3D. Make battery life better/make options to increase battery life more available.
Stop trying to make GNOME Shiny. It was shiny and extensible as it needed to be with 2.x. If anything, make it easier to theme the 2.x style, and let the users do what they want with it. GNOME 3 prevents users from truly controlling their desktop.
Also, make it nicer for businesses. Nobody wants to use GNOME 3.0+ in a business because it's too shiny and not "like Windows" enough. A simple panel and some tray icons are a good way to start.
Stop taking configuration options away. Sure it makes it easy for the user, but instead of forcing people to use gconf (or worse yet use arbitrary terminal commands) to accomplish simple tasks, use an actual GUI with enough of the options available that one can change the functionality of the desktop to their whim.
5670: 1) Resurrect GNOME2.
2) Move GNOME VFS lower down. Make friends with other DEs to all work together using FuseFS-based VFS.
3) Nom Ubuntu's simple scanning tool.
Why GNOME3?
Why?
I tried GNOME3. I spent weeks with it. I even tried it with my relatives. None of us could live with it.
I am now facing a choice between XFCE on F16 and GNOME2 till 2017 on Scientific 6. Thing is, by 2013 it will be pretty archaic.
5671: Control Center
Weather Applet
Easily selectable language variants (foo@bar locales)
Continue innovating along the 3.x path!
5672: Closer to 2.0, or XFCE.
Revert to 2.0 or similar
5673: Drop unity and the 3.x bs. I have no problems with the older gnaome desktop but I prefer xfce.
The developers are morons for pushing a poor interface (3.x) on the public. It's a step *backwards* and there must be a reason why its being done.
Why? Who and why is this being pushed?
5674: 1 Documentation must be hugely hugely improved.
2 Configuration and management support large site deploys. (Not logging in to 100s of consoles to configure and manage. Up to date documentation would help)
3 Communication. Developers must have some connection to the community to produce things that people actually want to use.
Not every machine is a tablet or laptop. Not every machine has a graphics console so the desktop environment cannot be the only way to access system functions. Better design would separate the GUI from the system functions allowing use of each when appropriate. Lack of compatibility between releases makes upgrades painful. Lack of support for network home directories (multiple same user sessions logged in at the same time) makes Gnome not usable at sites with large centralized file system setups. Or even non simultaneous logins when using very different releases of Gnome.
The desktop environment is a tool, not the be all and end all. When the race to the next shiny feature gets in the way of doing work people get annoyed. Your vision has been off track for a while. New features are fine but they have to work, be optional, be documented and be useful.
5675: * Support multiple X screens again.
* Stop trying to maximize windows when all I'm doing is moving them around.
* Seriously, not having working multiple X screen support is really annoying.
I don't know who your target audience is, but it's clearly not the people who liked GNOME 2.
5676: - option for NO BLINKING CURSOR in Gnome Terminal (but standard behaviour in GTK-Applications)
- better Fonts
- better usability on small screens (e.g. 1024*600 and 1024*768)
listen to your users and don't treat them like idiots (removed option for blinking cursor in terminal is an example of such arrogant attitude)
5677: There should be a mini task list for up to 3 windows (left of date).
if 3< windows you should use "activities" because it is more practible but for "small sessions" i need a fast way to change windows!
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support lightdm!
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faster nautilus
5678: Bring panels and applets back.
Give me a clock which can support multiple time zones concurrently.
Get rid of that rubbish start menu, I am a power user and I don't want a tablet interface to run a supercomputer through.
I find Gnome 3 unusable as a desktop to get serious work done. I am looking for an alternative, but I have not found one yet. xfce sucks in comparison to Gnome 2.3 but at least it is better than gnome 3. I have been a Fedora user for years and normally upgrade as soon as the beta is released, however this time, I have not upgraded for the first time in ten years simply because I find Gnome 3.0 broken and makes me much less productive.
5679: light, fast, and easy to configure as such.
Keep up the good work, your making a difference to many users who are not force feeded, but they have a choice and they use your creation.
5680: - a separate branch of Gnome 2.x - no "tablet or notebook version" on the desktop! (i.e. Gnome 3.x)
5681: Add a dashboard/dock
Make sure that as you add new functionality, you maintain the previous way things were done, via simple configuration switches.
5682: Get back to 2.8 interface.
Please bring back gnome-panel and gnome-control. I can't live without the possibility of tweaking my system.
5683: 1. Improve the integration in the Shell of third party components like Thunderbird.
2. Add/improve the extension management.
3. Add the possibility to interact with the content of the windows when the desktop is in "activities" view while pressing some key.
Hey guys, you're doing a great job, keep on it!.
5684: 1) Maybe get rid of gconf
2) Reduce library bloat
3) Improve Evolution
I know I should switch to XFCE, but I like evolution, and that loads all the gnome stuff. So there is no point in XFCE.
I haven't tried gnome 3 so far, so no comments.
5685: Return the advanced settings tab in (gnome-)screensaver settings
5686: Kill the applications insanity
Bring back the lower applications dock and multiple desktops (Not the ugly hack they did)
Innovation is good, but _*NOT*_ this class of "innovation" (more like regression, that is).
5687: 1) better configuration - more configurable
2) easier installation of the cool themes that are out there
3) let the search also search for files too
Keep up the good work - it's much better than Unity.
5688: Improve stability, bring back a window dock, add more flexibility to new interface
Experimentation is good, but if you push new things on users then you need to be agile enough to respond to user feedback quickly
5689: 1. Add some tiling capabilities to Gnome-Shell. You can now tile windows vertically but only by using the Mouse.
2. Shutdown on the user menu by default.
3. Add serious searching capabilities to the shell. It only returns applications and some recently used files now.
Excellent work, Gnome is a pretty polished experience. It is just that some parts feel unfinished. An example is the new gnome-online-accounts control, it's basically only for Google and does nothing with Empathy or Evolution. Another one is Gnome Shell's application menu. The only thing you can do with it is 'Close Application'. It would be nice to see recently used files or common actions there.
5690: Hear Their Users!
Hear Their Users!
Hear Their Users!
Hear their users!
Call for people help!
Suggestions -> Mockups -> Survey -> Develop!
Focus in make a evolutionary interface, concise, flexible, clean, bugs free!
Hear Their Users!
Hear Their Users!
Hear Their Users!
Like LibreOffice, these beautiful mockups.
http://pauloup.deviantart.com/gallery/28216273
Theres many talent people with good ideas for Gnome.
Hear Their Users!
5691: Even though I use GNOME 2.x and Unity as regular basis, I've tried GNOME 3 with Fedora (15 and 16) LiveCD, but they didn't seem to have Power off / Shutdown (or better, Reboot) option in menus. At least I first thought so, which is actually very bad. That's the very first thing I'd change. Suspending is not very good idea on LiveCD if you want to change back to old OS.
On old GNOME (2.x series) I've liked about panel applets that let me know how warm is my computer or how much CPU% is used but it seems to be that I can't use them on GNOME 3, or can I? Anyway, bring them back!
Also I'd like to have application button and application category list on left side, because now first I move my pointer to the upper-left corner and then I have to move it to another side (selecting applications and category) and then move it back to center and select the application.
GNOME 3 needs still some work as I told in the list of changes I'd like to see. Before that I'll stay with GNOME 2.x and Unity and I might even try KDE. Although Unity is almost as unmature as GNOME 3. For example it doesn't support tray icons which makes using Skype hard. I hope that works better in GNOME 3.
Also I hope you will fix bring Evolution to this century (mostly fix bugs), because it has calendar which is missing from Thunderbird and that's the only thing it needs. For now it's safer for me to use Thunderbird.
5692: 1) delete the gnome3 project and continue with gnome2;
2) port gnome2 to gtk3;
2) don't transform a desktop pc into a tablet;
Make something innovative doesn't require to destroy everything.
5693: Much more extensive Control Center
Autocomplete in Alt+F2
5694: This poll is odd. Either focus on developers and API, and remove user related questions.
Or figure out how to get a survey/poll with real users. Phoronix is only able to get in touch with would be developers?
Is this poll really on behalf of GNOME? It doesn't seem to be well though out.
5695: support to wayland
5696: No expanding message tray icons
Gnome Shell is cohesive and bold. A strong vision and good execution
Do not post your surveys on phoronix, because phoronix is a piece of shit.
5697: Make it SMALLER and FASTER
XFCE is very good, but I like e17 also. I do not think gnome will be in my future any more, but who knows....
5698: Keep up the excellent work. Change is hard to accept, by most. Complaining and criticism come easily for all, but creation and devotion are rare.
5699: 1) port the old gnome_panel from 2.x to gtk3 !!!
2) port the old gnome_panel from 2.x to gtk3 !!!
3) port the old gnome_panel from 2.x to gtk3 !!!
port the old gnome_panel to gtk3 !!! gnome shell is a mess for someone who has persistent desktops and uses a lot of shortcuts to switch between apps...
5700: 1. add a global menu to Gnome-shell (like Unity & OSX)
2. a better application switcher (more like OSX Lion)
3. most UI widgets should be *much* smaller
Please, please, please, get back to the simplicity/efficiency everybody has loved during the past 10 years. </3