Perhaps the Gnome developer group has been infiltrated by folks who are paid to make FOSS look bad?
Just paranoid.. On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 23:14 +0100, Another Sillyname wrote: > I've just installed Gnome Shell as part of a F15 build, it's the first > time I've played with it and have pretty much ignored the build up as > I prefer to judge these things myself. > > While I'm not totally comfortable yet with the changes I'm willing to > use it for a couple of weeks before making decisions as to whether > I'll stick with it or not. I've been using F14 with a Compiz desktop > for 2-3 years now. > > I've read assorted arguments in assorted threads regarding human > multitasking capabilities and frankly don't want to get into those > arguments. > > What I don't understand however is the removal of critical/semi > critical indicators from the system without any replacement extensions > being available and if I've read some mailing list threads correctly > no intention to provide replacements. > > Specifically the removal of the hardware monitoring and CPU, Network > etc.... monitoring applets I just do not understand the reasoning > behind. There is a quantum difference between multi tasking and > process/activity monitoring. I've many times been working on one of > my machines when a panel indicator has drawn my attention to something > that needed further investigation, sometimes without merit, on a > couple of occasions it's possibly saved machines. > > There's plenty of space on the top bar to allow them, so what's the logic? > > Also is there a way to change to format of the date/time on the top > bar? I prefer to use a 12 hour clock with an am/pm suffix and no > leading zeros. > > Thanks and I will state I've been impressed with the stability, more > eye candy would be nice though. > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list