Greetings, I am aware that some options are missing in the latest versions. For instance, I can't find the Shuffle option on Totem (GNOME Ubuntu 16.04).
However, I use Nautilus and Gedit a lot and, at least in my stations, they're working OK (I can access Gedit Preferences by its application menu and Backspace works just as expected in Nautilus). I suspect maybe you're missing the application menu ( see this screenshot: http://pasteboard.co/al2XEWVg1.png ) If not, maybe this is a good case to file a bug. Best regards, Leandro Mattioli 2016-08-05 17:13 GMT-03:00 Maxim Fomin <[email protected]>: > Hi! > > Some background. I am GNOME desktop user since version 2.xx (since > 2008). I used gnome applications almost for the whole period except > brief time when used KDE environment. I am linux programmer and > contributed into several projects. > > Question: approximately since gnome 3.0 (2011 or 2012 - don't > remember) I am witnessing usability degredation which makes using > GNOME environment inconvenient. In particular, I am complaining on > removing ability to set various options. I witnessed this happening > with various applications, so I suspect some programming paradigm > shift since GNOME 3.0 (gnome shell appearance is irrelevant to my > question). So, why does GNOME limits ability to configure applications > or lacks basic features (see below? > > Lacking ability to set options has been slowly progressing for several > years. Usually I solved these issues by adapting to them, but recently > I decided to reconsider the approach. Today I removed applications > which I usually use instead of gnome ones and installed full GNOME > stack and tried to rely only on them. So, here are complains. > > 1. Gnome browser does not have 'Edit Preferences' panel. It would be > good, for example, to make it *not* to open last visited page. > > 2. Gedit also does not have such panel. For example, it could be used > to make gedit by default *not* to use 8 bytes tab. I remember there > was such option in the past. > > 3. Gnome Music lacks 'Open File' menu. Currently it can only open > those files, which are tracked by tracker. This design choice makes > the app to fully depend on functioning the tracker (better to call it > 'Tracker player'). > > 4. Tracker itself does not track mp3 files which do not contain audio > tag information. The reasoning behind this constraint is unclear. > Currrent design forces doing following steps to play audio-tags-less > file in default music application: install f.e. easytag -> add audio > tags to file -> track the file with tracker -> open file in > gnome-music. > 4a. It seems that even after adding audio tags still not all files are > displayed. > > 5. Gedit lacks ability to display line numbers in the left. It would > be usefull for programmers. I remember there was such option in the > past. > > 6. Gnome shell lacks 'Run-as' button. Currently can be overcomed with > alt-F2. AFAIK, in gnome 2 this option was in the main menu. > > 7. Nautilus lacks backspace button behavior. Google recommends to set > <Actions>/ShellActions/Up option ot to use Alt+Backspace, but both of > them don't work. Backspace was definetely working in previous > versions. > > I consider all these issues to be not random, but a consistent policy > for several years. So, what the reason behind it? > > P. S. > I am not a list subscriber. > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list > -- Leandro Mattioli Linux: Be Root ... Windows: Re Boot
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