On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 7:57 AM, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 05/29/2012 10:56 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: >> I am one of those poor saps who decided to try gnome3 and its not >> pleasant at all ... its an even worse hit on productivity than early >> gnome2 over 1.4 was :( > > I find gnome3 to be not very different from gnome2 *if* I run it in > "fallback mode". Try it: System Settings::System Info::Graphics:: > Forced Fallback Mode::On > > So far I find gnome-shell to be pointless, but I'll try it every few > months to see if I change my mind. (Normally my wife changes my mind > for me, but she's not interested in linux so she doesn't care.) >
I find the grouped windows of the same application to be quite convenient and efficient, been using gnome-shell for months now and love it. Was forced to learn all the keyboard shortcuts and I'm much more productive. Alt-tab for switching between applications and Alt-` for switching between the same application, very nice. Just in case someone here hasn't yet come across it, here's the Gnome 3 cheat sheet (quite useful): https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet Plus the extensions are great and also simple to use. I didn't install a single extension until yesterday, and I was really surprised at how easy it was and how useful some of them are. Here's a short list of what I found useful: "Remove Accessibility" - Removes the accessibility icon from the upper right "Calculator" - Allows you to do simple calculations from within the shell, just press the "super" key and start typing "Notifications Alert" - Makes notifications more apparent in case you miss one "Media player indicator" - Sort of like Ubuntu's Unity music indicator "Advanced Volume Mixer" - Lists all the app's sound levels right in the drop-down mixer "Panel Settings" - Some settings to change the panel visibility and location Yes, normally I would prefer a lot of these features to be included in the desktop environment. But they made them so easy to install and try, I was really surprised and impressed. It's as if they want the weird simplicity so everyone can customize it with extensions, which is a nice approach to it, in my opinion. I've always disliked the bloat and complexity of KDE's built-in settings, etc. But I don't mean to start a flame war, that's just my taste and opinion.
