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Taking GNOME to the Next Level

by Xyzodiac on 9/2/12, 2:15 AM with 59 comments

• by krakensden on 9/2/12, 5:09 AM

  > The way that the tray is triggered has also been changed. The hot corner – which many people had problems with – has been replaced. Instead, the whole of the bottom screen edge now acts as a trigger area; letting the mouse rest there for a short period will cause the tray to appear. We plan to improve this behaviour in subsequent releases, so that a certain about of pressure against the screen edge is required to open the tray (we need to wait for changes down the stack before we can achieve this).

  Honestly, this makes me nervous. The Gnome team often seems far too willing to ship a bad experience because it will help "drain the swamp".

• by jim_kaiser on 9/2/12, 7:07 AM

  What I find amazingly idiotic is that when I try to access the url from India, I get this message

  "The URL you requested has been blocked as per instructions from Department of Telecom(CHNN). URL = afaikblog.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/taking-gnome-3-to-the-next-level/"

  Now, why the department of telecommunications is taking down articles on Gnome, one can only speculate. But, I think that they think Gnome is a bittorrent client. It's the only reasonable explanation. :)

• by biomechanica on 9/2/12, 9:35 AM

  Gnome may not be dead and it's nice to see them work hard to achieve a suitable user experience. However, I personally don't like the look of it. To me it seems the windows don't fit the rest of the U.I. The borders are too big, in my opinion and the buttons don't "feel" right or look right.

  Usability wise, it's still lacking, I think. I'm a grumpy sob, I guess. I hope they succeed but I have to be honest, I don't think they will.

  /end grump

• by rogerbinns on 9/2/12, 4:48 AM

  What I want is to be able to use the Gnome Shell at the same time as a panel. Currently you can only pick one. Gnome Shell (and Unity) suck at managing multiple instances of apps or their windows which covers most of what I run due to a dual screen setup. So I need the panel for that, but then can't use the Shell.

  I did have both working in an earlier release, but the panel was from a third party and they break on every gnome release.

• by wangweij on 9/2/12, 4:05 AM

  Taking GNOME to the Previous Level?

• by ezesolares on 9/2/12, 3:11 AM

  tired of gnome PR.. gnome is dead, let it RIP