On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:12 AM, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/13/2013 04:23 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> All the progress I see from Gnome3 (and I get this only from blog posts >> on the tubes) is that stuff is being ripped out and replaced with mostly >> nothing. > > That's exactly my problem with gnome3 in a sentence. I don't hate gnome-shell > as an interface, I hate it because some important (to me) stuff is missing and > if it's possible to get the missing stuff back, I don't know how to do it. > > The gnome3 devs may intend to restore the missing stuff at some point, but I > don't know, and meanwhile I'm frustrated and my attitude is deteriorating.
This is giving me flashbacks to the threads from when KDE4 was first released, people complaining about missing features from KDE3. A good time was had by all. At least KDE4 proved that, if you can wait a few years, most of those beloved features will probably be reimplemented at some point, maybe. :)