hmm k that will be a funny reaction.
I do like gnome-shell kind of, I was even a bit fanatic about it, I really feeled that it was and is a big step forward. Yes its not really done yet... I mean its usable and good thing, but there are much stuff coming that is not there yet ^^. But thats not a real big deal.
I have installed here fedora 19 but did went back to ubuntu for now because I have some problems, no big deal f19 isnt released so its a alpha or something like that. But on the other hand I had problems I should not have their, ssl-handshare error in the browser when trying to open google.de but thats to blame on fedora not on gnome. (browser = epiphany).
Then one said there would not be that much forks when gnome would have done better or something like that, its partialy true but not fully. The first Fork was unity, Unity did not fix any problem that gnome-shell had. It just was a worse alternative and it just got out because Ubuntu now tries to controll more pieces of their distribution.
Especially the earlier versions, were way buggier and slower than what gnome-shell state was. But even know except adware they have no big advantages over gnome-shell ok maybe hud is a nice idea but other than that nothing.
then they even did react better than canonical that dont react to critic at all it seems, to the critic ok maybe a bit late, but now they included this classic mode or how they call it now.
So far the possitive stuff, but I typing this now from awesome-wm. Its a tiling based wm. K maybe I am interested in that, because I also made me learn to use emacs and generaly tried to get environments and programms where I dont need the mouse anymore.
But still gnome-shell aims also to this goal a bit, but in reaching this goal, they are better than gnome2 and kde and... but not better than this tiling based wms... others are qtile, and i3...
And they do better in managing several apps one a big screen, because in gnome-shell you only have the option to use one app full screen or make 2 use the halth. of course with manueal mouse-resizing you can do better, but thats not good.
And another positive effekt of such tiling based wm is that it uses less cpu power and is snappier.
And its better with dualhead setup. So here gnome-shell could get better, I mean you could also use awesome-wm as replacement for mutter with gnome-shell I guess, so thats not that big problem, but I think they could go a step further in make it more keyboard-only friendly. And of course in some years, especialy with better grafics-driver (gpu-video-decoding for not stealing the hole cpu for the youtube stream is here the magic word) it will maybe not matter that much in some years.
But right now I prefer such tiling based window-manager, but I am a pro, its no full de, you have to hack around to get sleep mode and such stuff and use as example gnome-settings-manager or some alternative tools to get volume-keys working etc.
Multihead support should become better in gnome-shell, more keyboard shortcuts for stuff you now need the mouse woudl be great, and where gnome-devs cant help, they should make better grafics drivers for gpu-based encoding with free drivers.
One other thing, I was pretty disapointed what I saw in gnome-3.8 with the owncloud integration. there was no file-sync or even file-mount when I setup the account in the settings. So only calender and some stuff is updated, stuff that could be done easily before it just gets a bit easier to setup.
that was the biggest thing I was excited in gnome 3.8.
Now I dont think its a big step from 3.6 anymore.
UPDATE:
The problem with video-encoding is even worse in gnome, because gstreamer is a bigger cpu eater, so with a zacate core if you watch with totem HD material your desktop gets really slow...
Ok you can use also in gnome something like smplayer or xbmc or something like that. But that helps not to make a round one-desktop experience ^^
I do like gnome-shell kind of, I was even a bit fanatic about it, I really feeled that it was and is a big step forward. Yes its not really done yet... I mean its usable and good thing, but there are much stuff coming that is not there yet ^^. But thats not a real big deal.
I have installed here fedora 19 but did went back to ubuntu for now because I have some problems, no big deal f19 isnt released so its a alpha or something like that. But on the other hand I had problems I should not have their, ssl-handshare error in the browser when trying to open google.de but thats to blame on fedora not on gnome. (browser = epiphany).
Then one said there would not be that much forks when gnome would have done better or something like that, its partialy true but not fully. The first Fork was unity, Unity did not fix any problem that gnome-shell had. It just was a worse alternative and it just got out because Ubuntu now tries to controll more pieces of their distribution.
Especially the earlier versions, were way buggier and slower than what gnome-shell state was. But even know except adware they have no big advantages over gnome-shell ok maybe hud is a nice idea but other than that nothing.
then they even did react better than canonical that dont react to critic at all it seems, to the critic ok maybe a bit late, but now they included this classic mode or how they call it now.
So far the possitive stuff, but I typing this now from awesome-wm. Its a tiling based wm. K maybe I am interested in that, because I also made me learn to use emacs and generaly tried to get environments and programms where I dont need the mouse anymore.
But still gnome-shell aims also to this goal a bit, but in reaching this goal, they are better than gnome2 and kde and... but not better than this tiling based wms... others are qtile, and i3...
And they do better in managing several apps one a big screen, because in gnome-shell you only have the option to use one app full screen or make 2 use the halth. of course with manueal mouse-resizing you can do better, but thats not good.
And another positive effekt of such tiling based wm is that it uses less cpu power and is snappier.
And its better with dualhead setup. So here gnome-shell could get better, I mean you could also use awesome-wm as replacement for mutter with gnome-shell I guess, so thats not that big problem, but I think they could go a step further in make it more keyboard-only friendly. And of course in some years, especialy with better grafics-driver (gpu-video-decoding for not stealing the hole cpu for the youtube stream is here the magic word) it will maybe not matter that much in some years.
But right now I prefer such tiling based window-manager, but I am a pro, its no full de, you have to hack around to get sleep mode and such stuff and use as example gnome-settings-manager or some alternative tools to get volume-keys working etc.
Multihead support should become better in gnome-shell, more keyboard shortcuts for stuff you now need the mouse woudl be great, and where gnome-devs cant help, they should make better grafics drivers for gpu-based encoding with free drivers.
One other thing, I was pretty disapointed what I saw in gnome-3.8 with the owncloud integration. there was no file-sync or even file-mount when I setup the account in the settings. So only calender and some stuff is updated, stuff that could be done easily before it just gets a bit easier to setup.
that was the biggest thing I was excited in gnome 3.8.
Now I dont think its a big step from 3.6 anymore.
UPDATE:
The problem with video-encoding is even worse in gnome, because gstreamer is a bigger cpu eater, so with a zacate core if you watch with totem HD material your desktop gets really slow...
Ok you can use also in gnome something like smplayer or xbmc or something like that. But that helps not to make a round one-desktop experience ^^
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