The Best Features Of GNOME In 2012

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 19 December 2012 at 03:08 PM EST. Page 5 of 15. 5 Comments.

401: Speed, cleanliness of interface, reliability (and in general) sensibility

402: desktop that does what i want

403: Being able to maximise a window to half a screen width

404: I never use suspend / hibernate, don't make them mandatory. Keep plain power off.

405: Activities overview, workspaces

406: clean UI, fast desktop experience

407: I am flexible

408: they are already gone

409: fallback mode

410: pop-up activities when moving on top left corner

411: panel and metacity (2d rendering)

412: Dash, Hot corner, Workspaces, Evolution integration, Activities Windows, Files Path Bar

413: GNOME Shell

414: gnome-shell, notifications

415: color management

416: None for the moment

417: Activity panel

418: GNOME Shell

419: the activiities overview

420: split view in Nautilus, dynamic workspaces, GNOME Shell windows picker, window size managment (drag to left/right/top border)

421: Wacom Settings, All old nat

422: Qick Launch using SuperKey, Evolution, Nautilus, Gedit

423: Wacom Settings, All old Nautilus functions

424: Multi desktop

425: No blinbling, ease of use, power of use.

426: IM Integration, App search, hidden Dash, Dynamic Workspaces

427: Compartibility with standard free desktop and X components and approaches, like keboard layout switching, etc.

428: Stability Flexability Simplicity Configureabliity

429: The straight forward design of version 2.

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432: Gnome shell quick app search

433: menu, panels

434: The classic interface: it integrates in my workflow

435: Hot corner

436: The upper left expose/zoom (display all windows at once.). This method is more intuitive and better looking that cinnamon and compiz/unity.

437: online accounts

438: How quick and responsive the desktop is

439: working without 3D acceleration

440: ram footprint

441: none, all of them are already gone

442: Fallback mode

443: multiple desktop support

444: extensions ; compact view in nautilus ; the way Activities mode works ; Gnome Tweak

445: Hot corner

446: "complete" Nautilus

447: clean design with clear airy structure

448: all features

449: fallback mode

450: The fall-back mode

451: virtual desktop

452: control panel

453: expose on top left corner

454: Multi Workspace support

455: Nautilus features lost in 3.6

456: Direct app launch from keyboard

457: messaging integration, notifications, evolution

458: Development of new user interface, it is the best of gnome currently

459: external monitors

460: 3D accelerated desktop

461: notifications, shell, nautilus

462: Extra pane in Nautilus

463: nothing special

464: application switcher, alt+tab between apps, and alt+` between windows of that app

465: Activities view when pressing WinKey, and many other I can't cite here. You should ask what feature I don't rely on and would not mind it to go away…

466: Classic window manager. Configuration options.

467: Ability to run non-GNOME components as part of the desktop

468: gtk2 theming

469: panel applets

470: tiling aspects in window management

471: Empathy is currently unusable and was important part of my workflow

472: sane window management

473: Overview, integrated chat, epiphany web apps

474: search area, hot corners, dynamic creation ofvirtual desktops, notifications.

475: GOA and Tracker

476: Unstripped version of nautilus and configurations.

477: Gimp, gtk, core libraries

478: easily change/install theme

479: easily change/install theme(s)

480: multiple desktops

481: Simplicity, not laggy animations that slows down the system

482: i relied on nautilus' feature to simple search for an item in the current folder by just pressing the initial characters of the item in question. This has been replaced with the instant search wich gives me like twenty src folders of directories and sub directories without a single hint which src directory is the one i'm looking for (BRAINDEAD)

483: Dash, GTK, Wikipedia search option

484: Shell search

485: GTK+ :P

486: Evolution, easy to use, reliability

487: Window overview

488: gnome-panel, nautilus

489: nautilus extendibility

490: Adding option for command line launch to open with dialog as in gnome 2

491: search tool, activities clean view

492: Gnome 2.x style interface

493: gnome-shell overview, dynamic desktops

494: It was multi-monitor.

495: the activities overview <3

496: no feature

497: Easy to use and good performance

498: Virtual Desktop, easy switching between activities. Could/Should be improved

499: speed, stability

500: You know it first when it's gone


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