Summers Pittman >>Phone:404 941 4698 >>Java is my crack.
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Summers Pittman ℝ <[email protected]> wrote: > Summers Pittman >>>Phone:404 941 4698 >>>Java is my crack. > > > > On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 8:03 AM, Toby Goodwin <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Fred, >> >> Have you tried cinammon? It's all the good bits of GNOME, but without the >> "users are idiots / Apple fanboys" > > So I don't think the Gnome dev and UX team think we are idiots nor are > they Apple fanboying (fanbuoying?). Over all the GNOME team has made > a lot of very cool unique decisions. GOA is one of the killer > features I love and point to when people ask me my why Windows 8 was > so disappointing. Extensions are a wonderful utility, looking glass > is allows for amazing inspection, and I LOVE the messaging and > notifications support. > > I can even see what the team is trying to do with some of the more > recent changes. The move of putting all of the confirmation and > action buttons in the menu chrome is very similar to the action bar > style concept of Android. They are hilariously wrong and 30 years of > UX research, user training, and preferences stand against them of > course but I see where they are coming from. The best we can do is > file bug reports, make blog posts, and give useful construct feedback > (or switch to cinnamon). Actually I discovered I can also set run 'gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides "{'Gtk/DialogsUseHeader':<0>}"' to fix the dialogs. > >> >>>Thank you and apologies for the rant. >> >> No problem. I had a very long and protracted rant at GNOME when F21 came >> out. (I actually opened a bug ticket against soundjuicer because I could not >> find the menu I needed - turned out it was there all along, just glued to >> the top of the wrong monitor.) I ought to turn that rant into a blog post, >> actually, because I think I made some good points. > > Please do. Even Unity is advertising they got rid of global app menus > FFS. GNOME's cashew has got to go. (Lets not even talk about the > awkwardness of having sloppy focus, multiple monitors, and needing to > move a window to the menu button to be able to keep focus ARGH!) > >> >> Cheers, >> >> Toby. >> _______________________________________________ >> gnome-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
