GNOME Shell 2.29.1 Arrives w/ New Stuff

[drag]

We support Gnome, because it provides the most sane, intuitive and consistent experience, as well as the best applications in the Linux world. It's that simple, really.

Pretty much.

Also don't think that because you don't see huge sweeping changes in the UI that stuff is not going on. Gnome-shell is pretty radical UI change, to be sure, but stuff like proper Webkit integration is as important (for example). It increases the performance, capabilities, and stability of all the applications that have to display html formatted stuff in some manner.

[kraftman]

We support Gnome, because it provides the most sane, intuitive and consistent experience, as well as the best applications in the Linux world. It's that simple, really.

I'm not interested in such bull. It's not sane, not intuitive and its apps sucks a lot. It's far from being consistent too. Btw. You probably didn't tried Fedora, because Gnome defaults are terrible there. If you try it, you'll probably realize they don't care about desktop. I want to hear REAL reasons and I want to hear it from Red Hat guys, because I'm not interested in other people opinions in this case.

[BlackStar]

It's a joke isn't it? Isn't Gnome progress dead slow? KDE SC, Windows and OS X will be light years ahead of Gnome in October. Personally I'd feel cheated if I'd be a Gnome user or if I'd have some distro with Gnome being default DE. What's the reason for you as the Red Hat for supporting it? It has your focus, because some of your boss, ex-boss or whatever is a gtk maker? Or maybe there are some real reasons? I'm really curious.

We support Gnome, because it provides the most sane, intuitive and consistent experience, as well as the best applications in the Linux world. It's that simple, really.

[kraftman]

Nobody expects all the work to be done by oct. It is merely a starting point for the next release.

It's a joke isn't it? Isn't Gnome progress dead slow? KDE SC, Windows and OS X will be light years ahead of Gnome in October. Personally I'd feel cheated if I'd be a Gnome user or if I'd have some distro with Gnome being default DE. What's the reason for you as the Red Hat for supporting it? It has your focus, because some of your boss, ex-boss or whatever is a gtk maker? Or maybe there are some real reasons? I'm really curious.

[Dragoran]

I don't think that Gnome Shell will make it for the Gnome 3.0 release. So I think Gnome is still going to default to regular Metacity. Gnome Shell's basic functionality requires composited desktop and such so there really is no way to use that without 3D support and such.

Compositing has nothing to do with 3D, that being said gnome-shell does indeed require OpenGl (and that is not supposed to change) but seriously the attitude should be "fix 3D" not "avoid 3D" ...

[SkyHiRider]

I don't think that Gnome Shell will make it for the Gnome 3.0 release. So I think Gnome is still going to default to regular Metacity. Gnome Shell's basic functionality requires composited desktop and such so there really is no way to use that without 3D support and such.

Gnome-Do, though, is a native application. GTK-C# is a officially included language in the regular Gnome stuff. Like python and C language support.

S basically GnomeDo only uses Gnome libraries and is optimized for gnome(heeds the guidelines for gnome desktop etc..)? I wonder why wasn't it merged into gnome, as it provides a great usability feature.

And I'm all enthusiastic about the Shell, but it will be a big scary things for many new users(especially those less tech that are scared of everything new or are thinking of switching), but I guess the Gnome team knows what they're doing

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Hope there will be some kind of simple mode that disables the effects and just keeps a search bar similar to the one on Win7. GnomeDo is fine but native app is native.

I don't think that Gnome Shell will make it for the Gnome 3.0 release. So I think Gnome is still going to default to regular Metacity. Gnome Shell's basic functionality requires composited desktop and such so there really is no way to use that without 3D support and such.

Gnome-Do, though, is a native application. GTK-C# is a officially included language in the regular Gnome stuff. Like python and C language support.

[RahulSundaram]

Last I looked (a week or so ago) there hadn't been a commit since october, IIRC. While dconf is less complicated than gconf, I would be surprised if all the work necessary for 2.32 had been completed by this past october

Best/Liam

I think dconf commits is largely irrelevant. dconf is a core layer. GNOME programs are not going to be using it directly but via GSettings. Nobody expects all the work to be done by oct. It is merely a starting point for the next release.

[srg_13]

I find Gnome slow, bugged, and unreliable. Far too often I have to delete all my user .config, .local, .gconf, etc., just to have a workable desktop back.

What the hell? What distro are you using because either their Gnome install is messed up or you've somehow broken it... In four years of running Gnome I've never had a desktop that wasn't 'workable' and never had to delete any of Gnome's configuration files.

I'm even running a pre-release version a quarter of the time too!

F2 (rename) does not work and I cannot drag and drop.

They both work for me...

[Dragoran]

One last thing - it's pretty easy to flick my mouse to the screen edge to get up the activities, but I think it would be heaps better if I could assign a keyboard shortcut like super-space.

Super works (i.e pressing the windows key will toggle the overview)