GNOME 41 Released With Wayland Improvements, More Performance Tuning

[intelfx]

I've said it before, gnome developers are so polarized, aggressive and narrow minded, that refuse to see how much damage they are doing to their own product.

Notice how every time gnome is mentioned, it gathers 50+ posts of complaints and 2-3 poor guys trying to support gnome at all costs.

Sad really... sad...

Complainers are loud. Notice how every time somebody complains about GNOME, it's the same 5-10 guys spitting out same stuff over and over, creating their own echo chamber. If GNOME really was that overwhelmingly, irredeemably bad, you'd think they would just move on?

Users who enjoy GNOME simply enjoy it, not vent on forums. What's really sad is your trolling attempt.

[bash2bash]

I've said it before, gnome developers are so polarized, aggressive and narrow minded, that refuse to see how much damage they are doing to their own product.

Notice how every time gnome is mentioned, it gathers 50+ posts of complaints and 2-3 poor guys trying to support gnome at all costs.

Sad really... sad...

[Sonadow]

To make it that little bit better.

Since Gnome developers do not want the top panel with its clock, calendar and systray being duplicated on multiple displays an extension is needed.

[leipero]

Not sure why people bother with extensions when they have perfectly usable DE out of the box

[jaypatelani]

I think Gnome is still experimenting with UXes. Best of luck to them.

[blacknova]

I don't find the app launcher in to be slow at all, just more distracting. That being said, I like it better than any Arc Menu options because I can reposition and manually group applications to my liking.

All I need for my workflow is dash for quick start after reboot (this the point of annoyance to me, since by default GNOME's dash is hidden) and launch's app search. The applications grid by it self is useless to me. I stopped using any app menus then they stated to populate them with all installed shit.

As for speed it is slower than Win8 launcher was 15 years ago on that period hardware. On top of that for all talks about hw accell and wayland, GNOME on Ryzen 7 1700 + RX480 + Wayland is a lot less smoother than on Ryzen 7 3700X + RTX2070S + X11, I'd guess GNOME is a lot more CPU bound than I expected, and yeah I own both so I can compare, in fact replacing RX480 with R7 280X do not change desktop experience at all.

[Myownfriend]

Yeah, it almost exactly the same as the launcher in Win 8, less functionality and slower.

I don't find the app launcher in to be slow at all, just more distracting. That being said, I like it better than any Arc Menu options because I can reposition and manually group applications to my liking.

[Sonadow]

And most people strongly dislike altering their habits so no chance for GNOME with them.

That is the cause of every single problem in every single OS in existence.

"We want something newer! Better! But it must be the same!"

I personally do not use desktop icons, but I know a lot of people who does and their workflow would have been completely broken without desktop icons

Those people's entire lives are being dictated to and shackled by a bunch of items on the desktop, and they want to talk about freedom.

[blacknova]

Gnome's app launcher only requires a single click to launch the application and it doesn't clear the other windows on the screen.

Yeah, it almost exactly the same as the launcher in Win 8, less functionality and slower. Even MS recognized that their full screen launcher was not exactly great idea. OSX has their launchpad but they still keep dock and you can easily launch apps just fine from Finder. Oh... and you can clear windows from desktop to access it and than bring them back in OSX all you need to do it is touchpad gesture or single shortcut so no workflow interruption.

I personally do not use desktop icons, but I know a lot of people who does and their workflow would have been completely broken without desktop icons. And most people strongly dislike altering their habits so no chance for GNOME with them.

[Myownfriend]

even Windows has handled this competently since at least 7 via Aero Peek, and older DEs have/had a tray/taskbar icon to hide and show all windows, making it utterly trivial to get to the desktop.

This is true and it made me realize that the action of pressing a button that clears windows just so you can launch a link to a program on your desktop is exactly the way you launch programs on Gnome but clunkier. Gnome's app launcher only requires a single click to launch the application and it doesn't clear the other windows on the screen.