What Linux Users Are Saying About GNOME In 2012
1601: Please have a Gnome for tables and one for Laptops/PC. Please give use a product similar to Gnome 2 but with the libraries from 3.
1602: I loved the spatial mode of nautilus ... and the way it kept the position and behavior of each window (place, size, order of sort etc ...)
There is also something which is not going well: when a file type is not know, I cannot choose my own program to launch it: only what appears in a list ...
1603: please improve these too:
* online accounts
- conflicts with evolution config (gmail) - imap/imapx
- better work with more google callendars (add all of my cals)
- direct edit for google cal in gnome cal (not through evo only)
- G-drive support
* stability of gnome-shell extensions
- how to solve conflicts between them
* any good background changer in default gnome
1604: Good luck !
1605: * Doing a good job - I prefer it greatly to Unity :)
* Tutorial videos are too noddy, the basic stuff is intuitive - what people really need to know is:
** Hold Alt to show shutdown/restart
** Hold Ctrl+Click/Enter to launch a new instance of an app
** AltGr+[ <key> to add umlauts to anything (OK maybe not need to know this - but hard to discover, someone I know worked this out by studying the keyboard layout app)
** ...
* Promote Alacarte for customizing Gnome-shell entries
* Make full integration of indexed local search into Gnome shell a priority (ISTR there was a plugin but needed hackery to fix it last time I checked).
* Looking forward to new system/tray notifications in 3.6... this is the weakest point in 3.4 on a single monitor.
1606: Gnome made me to change distro from Fedora to Debian (stable), where Gnome 2 is still present. :-/
1607: I hope gnome would improve, first of all on performance. :)
1608: It seems that the majority of the people doesn't know what theywant from a DE.
In my tought GNOME 3 is only few steps away from being an interface usable by both the mostly used internet devices: tablet and laptop.
May you can simplify things by putting an option:
ARE YOU RUNNING GNOME ON A NORMAL PC?
If no then ,the maximize/minimize buttons are obsolete.
Keep focusing on the possibility of choose the application without pressing more than 2 clicks.
Thi is usability.
Remember when apple designed the first iPod.
Only 3 step sto listen every kind of song that you have into the device.
Excuse my english, I'm Italian.
1609: I think that gnome 3 is a great desktop environment for a normal use. Just for emailing, browsing and any other simple task is perfect. But if you have to work using more applications as a developer or any other professional is a different stuff. I am a developer myself and I usually have dozens of windows opened. For that kind of scenario I think that KDE 4 today is the best option. The activities are a very smart way to organize your different windows and also in different virtual desktops. Unity its all right, but when you need more than 8 virtual desktops is kind of a pain. And finally Gnome which have this new way of using dynamically the virtual desktops, which is perfect for a light use, but when you need lots of them its really painful. If you close all the windows of a virtual desktop for example all the relative positions of the other vd change. Also moving from one to another is no good. You have to remember the position of any particular application. In Unity is all right, you can use the keys ctrl+alt and cursors and can be fast, and in KDE is just using Sup+Tab and then Ctrl F1-4.
So my idea is that Gnome should have some way to improve this kind of management of applications. The rest of the features I think that are good. And in general I can say that is a pleasure use it. Its a really beautiful desktop. Perhaps added a few different themes could be nice. Apart of that nothing more to say. Just good job and keep going.
1610: way is good...
but, if is possible, redesign app menus... i don't want all aplication in long list as default and don't like, when i must running with my mouse from left to right to left to right... more and more
1611: Gnome 3.6 right-click menu in nautilus is definitely a step backwards
1612: customization ! Not for fancy things, but the basics. It must be obvious how to change background/font size/mouse behaviour, how to create launchers for the left bar, how to turn off the computer.
It is foolishness to not have the things present in gnome-tweak-tool as part of the project (and in a nice format).
Please, at present just improve what you have and the users will love it, it has great concepts behind, but people need to feel they are in control of what they are using. Best wishes
1613: open discussion with an end-users
1614: Enable hardware acceleration in Epiphany , Totem
Improve Nautilus performance , add vertical icons alignment
Avoid Mono
Add flash support in epiphany
Improve gnome shell performance like kde
Keep the current theme
Make KVM User friendly and add windows driver to it
1615: 3.6 is looking much better. Design changes are getting better. Still needs more configuration choices. I'm waiting on Fedora 18 to install and on my system now that runs Kubuntu KDE. It's getting better and I suspect by the time v4.5 comes out you'll have fixed all of the issues a lot of people are complaining about. KDE apps need better integration in Gnome. Other than that it's getting better. . . Keep up the good work.
1616: You might feel GNOME3 UI is better for novice users, but please keep configurability and "traditional" (2.x) design easily available for advanced users.
1617: Add Nvidia h/w accel to totem and epiphany
implement flash in epiphany
remove horizontal icons display add vertical alignment
integrate gnome mplayer in gnome 3 shell
improve gnome 3 shell performance in nvidia cards
Add option to number torrents to download in priority in transmission
1618: Keep up the GOOD work! Most of the answers like "Other, cant say, i dont know" are becaose I use mostly xfce since gnome2 ended. No fork or gnome2 look in gnome3 rly satisfies me, mostly becaose of the panel and its low (at least last time i tried) customizability and low extensions support.
1619: I'm using gnome-fallback mode in ubuntu 12.04 lts to have old panel on the screen. The thing that ticks me off the most in gnome 3.X is the top screen panel that cannot autohide in the standard distribution. And the plugins do not work properly at the moment.
Best regards and keep up the good work!
1620: 1) Please, could you save project http://extensions.gnome.org to the future. Why is it BETA version?
It would be in production version, I think. :)
Very nice project. Thanks
2) Please, could you improved setting proxy in GNOME3? In my job I am behind the proxy (with password) and setting isn't comfortable. (In GNOME2 it was slightly better.)
1621: Wonderful work. Keep it up.
1622: You are doing great work!
1623: Bring back the old Alt-Tab behaviour. Title bar is too big.
1624: Please bring back traditional applications menu, panel applets, don't remove icons on desktop, bring back launchers on desktop.
1625: For me is Workspace Switcher from Gnome2 very important thing.
I miss it in Gnome3, so I'm using MATE now.
1626: Better JavaScript API to write apps and extensions.
1627: Overall, good job. However, GNOME's in severe need of more configurability. I really liked the ability to simply change pretty much anything I wanted to with GNOME 2. You know, without having to write JavaScript plugins.
Also, please try to improve reliability. The fact that gnome-shell usually restarts automatically after a crash is good, but it would be much better if it didn't crash in the first place.
P.S. Notifications broke completely with the update from 3.4 to 3.6, and now they render so badly that they are literally unreadable. I don't know if that was your end or not, but hey. I'm using an Intel HD 3000 integrated chip, Sandy Bridge.
P.P.S. Why can't I change what program files open with by default easily? I don't particularly want to open PDF files with Inkscape, and going through a menu to run Evince every time is kind of annoying.
1628: Gnome 3 should be strictly for a touch screen computer. Reconfigure a desktop PC version with more of a traditional layout.
1629: Notifications system has to be improved.
Calendar integration with online service would be nice.
GNOME OS...
1630: 1) Improved stability (preferably a stable API?) for extensions (would like to craft my own, but unstable API is a bit of a showstopper).
2) On question 9 I would like to say, "Improve developer" attitude but this might be due to some negative exposure so I'll refrain from that :)
3) In general I prefer the KDE philosophy, if I want to configure obscure feature X then I should be allowed to. I would like to clarify that I don't want a GUI for everything, but some documentation of possible configuration options would be nice (yes, I know that I can look at the code but that is not a documentation, IMHO).
4) The biggest reason that I'm not using KDE at the moment is that gnome-shell currently provides a smoother experience (performance-vice) than KDE. Should this change (hoping for KDE 4.10) I'll probably switch back, unless of course gnome-shell get some love on the configuration area ;)
1631: MORE MORE MORE Configurable !!! Do You create Gnome Shell for kids or idiots? Nautilus..the same - almost no configurable options ..i always back to dolphin and KDE. Im really disappointed.
Only one thing i liked in gnome shell is nice looking. Almost every element is good integrated with others..even lock option.
1632: I'd like to see an optimized version for the nvidia GPUs. Currently I'm using Gnome3 on my 2nd gen core i5 laptop and I have to admin that the performance with the integrated graphics is magnificent. However, this is not the case with my GTX260 on my Desktop PC which feels a little laggy and the whole desktop enviroment seems much more heavier when many windows are open.
1633: Please keep compatibility with non-accelerated desktops (i.e. support remote desktop like VNC, NX, etc.)
1634: Remove bottom bar, and take care about docker extension
1635: TASKBAR. When running several applications (e.g. 6) in parallel and frequent switching is required, then a taskbar must be visible all the time.
DESKTOP. The empty space on the "desktop" is a waste of space.
VERTICAL SPACE. Since the move to 16:9 screens, workspace has effectively become smaller. Nautilus is wasting some vertical space. Fallback-mode is wasting vertical space due to two bars (top and bottom). Suggestion: move taskbar to the right or left side.
Gnome 2 is just perfect. Gnome 3 looks beautiful but it is inefficient for working.
1636: For me Gnome has been the perfect desktop solution, the standard, my pattern, like meter unit to make it clear, something that will always work, I liked so much that motto "Optimised for standards" in the bottom of its website. However, with gnome 3.x I still can't fully comprehend if its oriented to tablets, desktop or I don't know, seems like its trying to go somewhere but the strategy isn't clear at least for me. While I do encourage the team to reach their goal I don't think it was a good idea to quit the gnome 2.x support so abruptly, causing MATE to appear taking a worthy piece of work, people and knowledges away from the gnome community.
1637: I've tried Cinnamon, Xfce, LXDE, Unity and KDE after my distribution (Fedora) dropped gnome 2 package. I stay with KDE now. I've managed to adjust it to be very similar to old Gnome-2 thanks to lot of configuration options which are available. I'm starting to leave Gnome shell behind because I miss multiple row/cols workspaces, proper taskbar (extensions are unstable) and I also started to like tiling option which KDE4 has. I also use some applets which disappeared in Gnome 3 and which made my life easier (CPU/MEM monitor).
However I would say that Gnome project has better multiple display settings which is able to handle various monitor setups without problem. On KDE I had to run xrandr to fix my desktop. The customization in Gnome shell is just very poor.
1638: I need to work with computer. I don't want facebook or google integrated into my desktop. I need effective tool for work.
1639: Should definitely increase the tunability of the system, it's quite retarded as is
1640: bring the old gnome 2.x interface back please.
1641: I think that GNOME cannot lose functions for old graphic cards. Some users still use old graphic cards with no acceleration sometimes. You need to pay attention to this and don't let to go away a still important function of GNOME environment. That is support for graphic cards with no hardware acceleration, or cards with rendering 3d graphics. Thank you ;)
1642: There should be more support for vala, and one decent gnome powered ide that supports vala so gnome apps can centralize under one modern programming language.
1643: I have not contributed but have donated cash in the past to Gnome and sub-projects e.g. Gimp
Gnome 3 is half-baked and is not usable by my mother. Give us something Jakob Neilsen would approve of!
1644: Listen to your lovely users! They appreciate your work with Gnome 3 but without happy users a project will never succed!
I'm happy when things are lightweight and not hard-coded. Tight integration with Evolution, Goa, Emphaty, Gwibber is toxic because some of your users want to choose their tools! For Gnome Apps it will be better to change their name with Gnome-<something>.
Thank you! :)
1645: None at all. If they continue to do things the way they are doing now, the GNOME will be dead eventually. That's not bad IMO - fewer DEs means easier life for software developers.
1646: more more more performance!!... contact with ATI! and Nvidia.
Great project!
1647: Interface has been dumbed down too much.
How about a default "friendly" mode for unsophisticated users and an "expert" mode for developers, engineers, etc...?
1648: Listen to your users and move back to the gnome 2 interface. look at the success of linuxmint... it is entirely based on not using ubuntu with unity or ubuntu with gnome 3.
1649: Get your heads out of your asses, scratch 3, go back to 2 and start f*cking listening to your users!
1650: I liked the 3.4 tray more, 3.6's tray takes longer to use since it doesn't have a hot corner.
I can't seem to use the Removable Devices dialog in the tray, all devices have to be ejected in Nautilus.
While I think you have done a great job cleaning up the interface of Nautilus, I wish it would not have come at the price of certain features, and with quirky sorting defaults.
1651: Go to the MATE team, hat in hand, and ask if there is anything you can do to help out. (And lets all forget that Gnome3 ever reared it's ugly head.)
Gnome 3 managed to make a long time Gnome user migrate to KDE, and then once it was stable and awesome, MATE. Good work guys.
I used the extensions quite a bit and not Gnome 3 nearly usable. But it still doesn't just work the way G2 and MATE do.
1652: We do not all have graphics acceleration or latest hardware. We have work to do and the desktop should help not get in the way.
1653: I think it is not good that the functions are taken as nautilus and so on but they should add new
1654: Would love to get decent network manager applet back. The new one is pretty painful with WiFi + Mobile Broadband which need to be switched around periodically.
1655: Good job!
1656: For me the biggest problem are notifications. Mainly I dont like bottom pop-up notification bar - often popped-up by hovering around bottom corner with mouse (quite annoying). I think this idea of popping-up notification panel is quite bad. I would prefer some icon in upper panel with for example number of pending notifications that would be always visible on desktop. Or classic taskbar from GNOME 2 - every app has its own icon and start blinking when some notification has come. Also in GNOME 2 I liked easy configurable panel applets.
1657: - Go back to text backend for configurations.
- Make sure that the gconf settings daemon is working at session startup (because often it does not and you can't even start gnome-term)
- Replace the GVFS stuff with something that makes real mounts that are compatible with the shell and with programs that do not know how to handle gvfs.
1658: My suggestion is to make Gnome back to its basics, like it was before. As the exmaple should/might be MATE - just bring back traditional interface, stability and lots of drivers for almost every graphics cards people around the world use. That will help and work.
1659: I'd like to have static desktops as I use different desktops based on the task at hand
1660: please add way to access to chat directli. If you want send a message to somebody, you must open contacts app.
1661: I know there is a lot of people trying to have one tool to cover it all but I think to really have the project move forward they have to let it go.
1662: People loved the simplicity, and easy usage that Gnome gave compared to KDE and others. But off lately, Gnome 3 only seems like that it is targeting touch devices. Its really a pain for the Desktop/Laptop user to move mouse to the corner for Windows to be shown. Plus there are really really less config options for its look. I for one used to show off how awesome my Gnome2 looked.With Gnome 3 we are lacking options, and config usually ends up going to theme's .conf file.
The HardDisk mount notifications take forever to go.
I welcome, the Gnome Team's initiative but please dont alienate the Gnome we knew which was so friendly. Its sad sometimes, that i have to work on a fork of gnome like cinnamon and mate to be more productive. In pursuit for Touch screen devices, please dont forget the Desktop/Laptop users.
Wishing the GNOME TEAM the best!
Gnome Rocks.
From India,
Nisheet
1663: The desktop is not productive! You have some great starting points, but the execution is just not right.
1664: Integrate more extensions by default.
Don't fix behaviors, let the user configure his own desktop.
Try not to break extensions, themes or any other third party component with new APIs, compatibility!
1665: Reduce dead space in the theme. Also, please support theme developers in the issues they're facing with regards to themeing.
You've done a great job simplifying the interface yet focusing on specific UX areas that would greatly benefit advanced users. However GNOME seems to resemble a mac OS X a bit too closely. GNOME should strive to mark its own identity, like it did with GNOME 2 and not blindly follow other platforms. =)
1666: Listen to users.
Do usability tests and incorporate lessons learned.
Always have users as the top priority.
1667: Listen to your users and bring back Gnome 2.X features
1668: You shouldn't have ditched Gnome2 for Gnome3. It was a big mistake. Gnome2 is everything I ever wanted from a desktop manager: easy to use even for a newbie, familiarity with other managers, clean looks and fast. And yes, I also hate Unity. Taht's why I'm currently using KDE or Mate, depending on the system I'm working on.
1669: Evince needs a serious redesign. The interface takes up too much of the viewing space.
1670: with gnome 3.6, the interface is more tablet oriented than the previous version. This make it worst for desktop usage (not a tablet usage)
They cannot make an Interface for Tablet and WORK desktop computer.
-Having a tablet interface is inefficient on a desktop.
-Having a desktop interface on top of a tablet is unusable.
They can't mix both.
Work desktop interface with 25 window/applicaton open NEED Minimize and a proper program bar.
1671: The Gnome team is doing a great job. Can't wait for Fedora 18 to come out..
1672: Fallback is the way to go
Think about how useful decorations really are
1673: I use gnome since the early gnome 2 days and I always enjoyed it. I also like the gnome shell, but stop removing/breaking features that people depend on. E.g. taking away the nautilus location bar makes it useless for me... Makes me angry too and i don't seem to be the only one...
1674: Unfortunatly Gnome 3 killed my productivity. And I have been using Gnome since the first version. I moved on and see no reason to even try to go back.
1675: I generally like the direction GNOME is heading but I switched to MacOSX due to general instability with certain apps (multimedia and email).
I would prefer more polish and usability.
1676: A few changes in 3.6 from previous version I used (in Fedora 17) made me sad ... one was the "windows | applications" buttons in the Activities view.
Don't like the new notifications bar along the bottom, the black gradient one that only required mouseover was better. The new one seems to scroll the entire screen down and it's difficult to revert it.
Even fewer options in Settings ... i.e. the lack of touchpad settings so far I've noticed.
I am a big fan of Gnome 3 vs. Gnome 2, I like that it's simple, I like the Activities view in lieu of another start menu clone. Improved font rendering is much much appreciated.
1677: Gnome 3.6 is awesome. This is coming from a power user who previously used nothing but a tiling window manager for everything. Gnome is beautiful, well designed, and it just works. You guys are doing a great thing for the world by creating a FOSS environment that is beautiful, functional, and intuitive. I really appreciate that you guys listen so much to designers. It's that polish that really makes things *click*.
Anyway, since with Gnome 3 there is no bar to complement the stacking window paradigm, a bit more support for tiling may be a good idea. I don't know. I know tiling is technically better and more efficient, but I also know that it really doesn't matter that much in the end. I mean, if people are going to do some work, they're going to open the windows they need, and then do work. You have the Aero Snap feature, so windows can be quickly arranged for short work... I don't know. Something should probably be done with that space where the active application is, though. It's kind of silly only having the one icon with one option (to quit). It doesn't do much. I'm not sure what could be done instead. I know, I'm a great help, heh.
Seriously though, great work with Gnome. I love it :)
1678: Create and support a GTK3 version (actual GTK, not the gnome shell CSS thing) of the old gnome panel that can be run together with gnome shell. or maybe without gnome shell.
And let the community build on that if they are not happy with Gnome Shell.
And in that way you can still (kind of) keep a large user base.
What people liked about the gnome panel was that they could shape it freely into what they wanted. There is no such thing in gnome shell.
Extensions doesn't come close to the same usability level as gnome panel. I don't want to write code to move a small button.
now suddenly windows is more customizable than gnome and that was the main reason why I preferred gnome instead of windows back in the windows95 days.
1679: gnome 3 is great! keep the good work. looking forward for future releases.
main problem of gnome is developer tools, documentation and environment. it's hard to setup developer machine, search documentation. c lang is not easy to learn too.
thanks
1680: *I don't like new notification area which moves with the desktop
* contacts which are shown during searching can be active, i.e. you should directly choose the action: send email, send chat, call by voip, etc. now you get only to the Contact list application, which slow
* window title in full screen should go off (like in Unity) mainly on netbook system
1681: I think you're working on the right direction! However, desktop feels somewhat "unconfortable" somehow...
I feel the traditional bottom panel with a "button" for each open application to be kind of past generation desktop, yet it's still easier to "switch application" than using Gnome's new method.
1682: NFS compatibility in nautilus would be nice. Keeping split view as well, why taking it away?
Look of the desktop should be configurable, not only through extensions. Everything that is built in should have configuration option, why an extension is needed to say hide accessibility button or move clock to a side? I'd get if a closed source corporation would want to make a product less configurable, in order to keep their branding instantly recognizable. Gnome, however, is open source. It should listen to their users and give them what they want - options.
1683: thanks for your work!
1684: Think more about non-developer users, but let advanced user configure it as they want.
For example, changing the application names to Files, Video, ... is not helpful for beginners, neither to advanced users. Beginners know that applications have names and they will rely on the Applications panel to find them, so improving categories is enough. Advanced users will look directly to file names.
1685: Don't ignore gnome2-users please. GNOME Shell really sucks! Don't put the mobile interface to the desktop.
1686: Please do think about users who actually do multitasking, notifications or distractions, how they are expressed in current Gnome language, are MUST have as well... We have to see the opened programs to do multitasking...
Easier workspace management, with click, not smth + up up up, to get from 6th to 2nd workspace...
An performance with loads of opened apps, currently it's sluggy on my i7 + intel ivy bridge, while in unity it's responsive...
1687: Fist, the things that I like in GNOME 3:
* Adwaita Theme
* Cantarell font
* The Default Gnome Shell Theme and how it's shared with GDM and "sudo/policykit/administrative priviliges?" password prompt, which is a part of the shell, not a separate window, for a smooth experience.
* Default wallpaper(s)
* Dialog window animations
* Indicators in the upper-right corner and their context menus with rounded corners
* Notifications (some of the best on Linux)
** that they're in the lower part of the screen, separate from indicators
** that they're actionable
** that they don't feel to distracting
** That you can disable them in the upperest-rightest indicator
* Clock in the middle of the upper panel that has a calendar upon clicking it. It's neat.
* Online Accounts thingy
* Search bar you can plug things into with extensions, e.g. Tracker, Zeitgeist, etc.
** And how you can launch apps super-fast with incremental search upon pressing "Super/Windows/Logo" key.
* Gnome Contacts (pity it uses Evolution Data Server backend for local concacts, because I'd use it elsewhere)
* Gnome Disks (palimpsest)
* "Recent" tab in Nautilus and file picker
On the whole
* The whole desktop experience feels conceptually simple and thus easier to grok and get used to than other UIs.
* The environment as a whole is way less distracting than other DE's and even GNOME 2, which is good. And has lower cognitive strain on the user.
* The UX feels more integrated and holistic, which I like.
Things that I find not so great:
I miss the "mute" button in the sound indicator context menu.
I miss minimising windows. I sometimes want my workspace to organise windows conceptually (e.g. per task), not just spatially. Especially, if I don't have KDE-like activities. If there's a running application that I want to get out of the way/view, but don't want to close yet, I don't feel like moving it to a different workspace and then back.
On a 15'4 Laptop with 1280x800 screen:
* I don't find window thumbnails in the overview all that useful for (quickly) switching between apps when working primarily with text: all windows look too similar and recognising the one I want requires more effort than taskbar entry or a dock icon. Lines of small text are not good visual cues.
* I find KDE's expose-like functionality more natural and requiring less time/effort to use than the window grid in GNOME Shell Overview. Thumbnails are way bigger, have icons and text labels in the middle. Granted, it doesn't look as slick as GNOME Shell Overview, but it's more functional.
* The highlight behind an app icon in an Overview dock is a weak indicator that the app is running. I much prefer the ones in Unity and KDE "Icon tasks" plasmoid (when set to emulate Unity): the arrows take less effort to notice and process at a glance. Also, the colored background is an additional visual cue and adds habituation.
* When you run multiple apps, the dock quickly scales the icons down way too much, making them hard to eyeball and select with a mouse. Icon Tasks in KDE, when put in a vertical panel, handles multiple icons more gracefully, IMO. Colored backgrounds and arrow indicaors help there also.
* 11 point Cantarell font looks good, UI at this size feels welcoming and affordable, but takes up huge amounts of space, compared to e.g. KDE with 9-point font, so I can fit less data on the same screen.
* The app categories on the right (when browsing apps) don't have any buttons around them that afford clicking. Also, those clicking areas for categories could be bigger. Maybe look up Ubuntu Netbook Remix 8.04 or 9.10 on how they display those.
* I experience uncomfortable visual dissonance upon viewing the same set of windows displayed at once it two different ways: arranged in a grid in the center of the overview and arranged w/o grid in the workspace thumbnail to the right. I hope that makes sense.
* Browsing apps full screen actually feels like more work than anywhere else on the DE "market". It also breaks my "flow" and concentration. Menus(e.g. Gnome 2's) and non-full screen launchers like Lancelot, Kicker, Unity Dash, Gnome do, Kupfer, etc. don't do that to such an extent.
Other suggestions:
I'd like the apps to preserve their state upon closing.
Ad-hoc creation of workspaces is cool, but I could use some sort of "Save" functionality. E.g. to save a workspace with running applications and close it and then open it again later. That would be something similar to the KDE Activities.
I like the idea of putting some information on the lock screen. Are you planning on making it extensible/configurable?
I really could use local(i.e. intranet/bluetooth) syncing of app data and configuration among GNOME PC's and mobile devices.
TaskView by ssickert was a great idea. Too bad the development stalled.
1688: After the gnome 3 release I prefer to use XFCE. What are all that crazy thinks you want to make us use? It's not a desktop environment any more. We turn people to use XFCE now.
1689: I used to use Gnome 3 purely for it's DE properties, and manage windows through a VM running XMonad (Xmonad in combination with Gnome3 is dodgy/badly documented). Getting to know Gnome3 this way made me appreciate Gnome3's workflow and window management. Thanks for that! (though i'd still like proper tiling WM in Gnome3 ;)).
1690: Do not waste space/pixels on the desktop.
1691: GNOME 3 is OK but only with some extensions. Try to integrate them: fixed number of desktops, Places menu, alternative status menu, remove accessibility, Alt-Tab only in one desktop, etc.
1692: Please go back to gnome2 like it was, improve it, but keep the traditional look and way of use. It was very comfortable and intuitive.
1693: It'll be nice to have the option to use a conventional switcher, maybe an extension or something
1694: The development od gnome 3 falback mode should be continued.
1695: Better, old enviroment for work - task list, active desktop, extension
more configuration (GNOME people knows what You want???)
1696: Keep up the awesome work.
Focus on usability, stability, and pushing things forward. The haters will still be hatin'.
1697: Guys you have done really good work. After some years using windows I again started use linux when I saw the Gnome 3.X with shell
1698: please rethink making gnome a linux specific desktop, you should be aiming for THE UNIX desktop.
we used to run gnome on all our workstations in the office, it's slowly being ripped out because of the difficulty in making it work with bsd/solaris.
1699: please stop the nonsense of destroying usability and productivity of desktop environments for the sole purpose of making them usable with touchscreens. The concepts dont seem to go together well, so dont urge them: a desktop is a desktop and a tablet is a tablet.
1700: After a new version of GNOME is released, all extensions aren't compatible with it, what is really annoying, please make something with that. There are also too less configuration options and sometimes it crashes.