Comments on: A Quick Tour of GNOME Shell

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:49:23 +0000

This is a terrible interface. As far as I can tell, gnome shell is nothing but a standard application launcher (not unlike KDE’s application launcher). The problem: instead of clicking on an on-screen menu, the user will now have to endure cpu-hogging, desktop reshaping animations (scale + expo!) just to get to the stupid menu. KDE 4 seems like a paragon of engineering elegance compared to this.

There is no UI innovation here: just a bunch of unnecessary “gee-whiz” animations thrown on top of an old-fashioned launcher.

By: A

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:24:10 +0000

We need to stop pandering to the types of people who can stand to use an interface like this.

By: Lisa J.

Lisa J. — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:01:51 +0000

Gnome shell is terrible and a huge step backwards. It’s a ‘solution’ looking for a ‘problem’. This is just desperate Gnome devs looking to add some ‘excitement’ to Gnome to compete with KDE4, but you can tell they don’t have any real ideas.

It’s a shame they are wasting their time on this nonsense when there is so much that could be fixed in the existing version (including many well documented bugs that go back 6 or 7 years and which STILL have not been fixed even though patched have been provided).

By: Linux-user

Linux-user — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:23:05 +0000

I really don’t like GNOME Shell. The day this becomes the default interface, I’ll immediately switch to another Desktop Environment.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 20 May 2009 08:53:34 +0000

No it is not supported in a Virtual machine. There is a not about this on the Gnome Shell website – http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell#building

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:02:44 +0000

This is nothing more than a _shiny_ rework of the old interface. I doubt anyone will find anything to say ‘WOW’ over. I think it is a great improvement, it just adds a fluid feel, easier ways to access programs and data; really this is just old GNOME, well maybe a little prettier and a little easier to use.

By: skarmiglion

skarmiglion — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:53:19 +0000

please optimize the nautilus, because are a mostero ram eater, please we need mor speed in our interface :).
gnome rule but dont eat so much ram please.

By: Dundee

Dundee — Sun, 17 May 2009 08:47:48 +0000

I’m quite afraid of it.

I seems that it will be much harder and slower to run any application.
Application menu in Gnome2 is still, doesn’t change much, so I know where the application is and can it start quite quickly.

But Gnome shell? I have to remember the name of app, write some letters, read results, find the appropriate one and run it. Looks like looong way.

It will be nice when Gnome Shell added to current Application menu.

By: Xgamer

Xgamer — Sun, 17 May 2009 07:11:49 +0000

It’s so disgusting, I don’t like it, I like on gnome simplicity,but this….

By: Kevin Yeaux

Kevin Yeaux — Sat, 16 May 2009 20:24:07 +0000

Bernhard:

if you install the packages that Vincent packaged, open a console and run “gnome-shell” – it’ll open in a nested window.

And yeah, hopefully someone can run usability tests on it with real people because it does need some work – of course, it’s not in GNOME 3 environment yet, and it’s pretty much pre-alpha at this point.