Comments on: gnome-shell :: test drive

By: Juan

Juan — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:41:40 +0000

I’ve been trying Gnome-shell for a while on Fedora 15. Honestly, I like it, but I’m not totally convinced. First of all, when you boot your desktop you find yourself with an useless background, and you must go to “Activities” before you can do anything. I would love to see a “Desktop” tab near “Activities”, in order to place all my shortcuts there (and a few files I want to access quickly).

Without something like that, I feel like I am loosing functionality here. In my case, I’ve been using KDE 4 since 4.4 😉

Regards!

By: Nelson Marques

Nelson Marques — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:11:13 +0000

Disclaimer added. Thanks for the correction. I’ve seen ‘those’ features first in Ubuntu. My humble apologies.

By: Adam Williamson

Adam Williamson — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:14:31 +0000

You might want to go and check the GNOME 3 design documents for the things you assume were copied from Unity, and see which designs actually came first.

By: toto

toto — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 04:31:12 +0000

I Like Gnome And OpenSuse. But I more like Gnome 2 than 3. More simple and fast.

By: nmarques

nmarques — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 02:57:07 +0000

By the way, I’ve seen the video you flagged on Facebook, installing openSUSE in less than 10 mins… I did it on my normal hardware with a USB2/3 stick (GNOME Live CD 11.4).

Awesome stuff, it’s really fast… I’ve made a small post about it on my forgotten blog (http://nmarques.digitalwhores.net).

This should be advertised by openSUSE Marketing, as it’s a simple procedure with very cool results…

By: nmarques

nmarques — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 02:41:57 +0000

I know, I’ve loaded fcrozat’s spin first, and I have to say that aside from a small glitch on the ATI driver, fcrozat’s spin offers a bit more 😉 People who might try both will know what I mean… though there’s a heads up, Fedora ALPHA is very fast loading and shutting down, damn impressive.

For those who remember David Lynch’s Dune, there’s a small quote I would love to use as a metaphor: “I start to like this Duke” > “I start to like this gnome-shell” 😉

I think GNOME3 is gonna be a killer, but nevertheless, I was expecting better artwork… I hope the final release improves it…

I’m tempted to buy a couple whips and check if our GNOME monkeys work faster with some whip engineering/motivation 😉

By: Stephen Shaw

Stephen Shaw — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:28:42 +0000

Nelson I believe there are plans to master an openSUSE 11.4 based image with gnome 3.0 built into it

By: jospoortvliet

jospoortvliet — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:18:46 +0000

I’d say we’re very much on the same page here, Nelson! GNOME Shell has great potential (although it still needs work in some area’s). And I like it…

By: nmarques

nmarques — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:28:27 +0000

(…) still looking for a way to reboot my system at the distance of a click :/