What People Are Saying About GNOME [Part 5]
4101: 1. Return configuration options to the user.
2. Return configuration options to the user.
3. Return configuration options to the user.
Over time the GNOME DE has irritated me to the point where I switched to XFCE4. When GNOME started using GConf matters started going down hill and the latest incarnation of GNOME is a fucking abortion. Now even GDM is fucking useless. At least with GDM2 you could customize the greeter and other options with not too much heartburn. Thank the gods LightDM appeared on the scene as a suitable replacement. I love GTK based apps but someone please drive a stake through the unholy heart of GNOME and be done with it. I hate to see talented developers waste their time.
At this point it does not really matter to me as XFCE +Compiz & LightDM make a perfect desktop environment, but it is sad that such a promising project lost its way.
4102: Make window List work properly when in a panel on the Left or Right Side of the Screen.
Gnome is second hand to me as an Interface for my OS.
I'm not sure I'd be able to switch to another one for my work computer.
Good Work!
4103: be as smart as gnome do. better looking gtk apps.
4104: Make it completely open, as in anyone can modify it and release it as proprietary software if they want to.
4105: The doc dash whatever is stupid.
There should be one place where I can click on the icon for my preferred apps, and it opens a new instance of it.
EVERY TIME a want a new firefox / chrome / xterm, every time, I need to do ctrl - click. That's retarded.
yeah:
• give me a way to click on my apps so it starts a new instance of it (you know like in gnome 2)
• give me an option for static desktop. I'm one of those guys who set up a bunch of windows in desktop 1 for project x, all my mail and light browsing in desktop 2, stuff for project y in desktop 3 etc... vertical only, and dynamic desktop means I waste time looking for which desktop I want to go to.
4106: Better performance, no compositing in Gnome 3
Stability
The Gnome developers
You have largely succeeded in making yourselves irrelevant.
4107: make all improvements in gnome 3 (except gnome-shell and its ugly ass theme) available in gnome 2 branch. improve documentations and make it easier to develop application or add features to gnome. drop unnecessary dependencies and make it easier to package new version of gnome on older installations.
get rid of gnome-shell. it's ugly, slow, unstable and a complete piece of crap. compiz works fine and if something should replace it, it needs to be at least as good if not better.
4108: 1) hardware supporting
2) more NATIVE apps
following your design and heart, dear G team.
4109: 1. Offer a simplified user experience with less eye candy. Keep established UI doctrine for behavior in place.
2. Be able to build GNOME with fewer dependencies and be able to easily select simplified themes.
3. Easier text file based config of desktop properties, HAL related event things (like automounting), etc.
GNOME 3.x is horrible and represents a step back from usability in favor of eye candy. MacOS and Windows 7 are not the lead that the GNOME team should be following.
4110: Bring panel applets back to GNOME 3.x
4111: Kill dconf, I don't like my configuration stored in binary formats that cannot be realistically version controlled.
Do some work on the fallback mode, free 3D is not present on newer ARM based devices. Maybe you could steal something from E17 for that, it is pretty damn fast when running with software rendering only.
4112: better multitasking/workflow
none at this time
4113: Get rid of the "Gnome Shell". It's stupid. Restricting users choice is a bad idea.
Don't think you know better than the end users. Forcing changes on people is a BAD idea.
A BAD IDEA.
4114: Remove unity
4115: The developers attitudes when it comes to configurability.
I want my damn options!
4116: Applications written in Mono need to be isolated and should not be so embedded into Gnome's world. F/OSS and Microsoft is not a reliable, safe linkage for Linux desktops due to potential legal entanglements. Only SUSE is actually 'licensed' for Microsoft's claimed patents and IP.
Gnome & KDE seem to both eat far more RAM than before. A 1 Gb RAM computer seems to be pretty starved as far as application memory. When the OS + desktop takes about 512Mb to load and run, it's suffering from bloat.
Evolution really needs a rewrite.
GAMBAS would be preferrable to Mono. Especially if it could create true compiled executables. Documentation for Mono has been undependable and useless for as long as it has existed. Keeping up with Visual Studio isn't really happening.
4117: I've been avoiding Gnome 3.x because I find it too inflexible. Consider using feedback from your wider community to guide development efforts, it must be painful to have spent all that time and energy developing something that has received so much bad press. But we haven't forgotten your worthy efforts, thanks guys, really.
4118: Return configuration to the users
Stop the developers from deciding what what they will let the users do
Stop removing functionality in the quest for aesthetic simplicity
MY COMPUTER, not yours. I get to decide how MY COMPUTER runs. You want your computer to look like a tablet UI, fine.
But don't change MY COMPUTER.
And stop yanking out functionality because it offends your aesthetic sensibilities.
4119: ability move the panel to the right/left/top or bottom
have a compact theme (in a small screen big buttons are annoying)
more eye-candy of course
4120: Faster algorithm when searching for applications and files.
Remember frequently searched items and place those on top. Ex: I type 'down' to open the 'Downloads' folder, but transmission is always the first choice despite the fact that I almost never open it.
Network manager is buggy for me. Ex: On two separate the machines wireless connection will shuts off periodically (once every 1-2 days). Improving this would greatly improve my experience.
I really enjoy the GNOME 3 experience and hope that the developers continue to improve this new desktop experience.
See my answer to 22. for suggested improvements.
4121: Remove the bottom notification bar(?) from gnome 3. I can never get the notifications to go away from there.
4122: Fix and improve the panels
Compiz is great!
4123: Allow 2 modes in gnome 3.
1 standard mode for the typical gnome 3 simple interface.
2 productive mode mode with the usual menus, icons and buttons that a productive, and more common user would expect (like the current windows & Mac experience).
The option to switch between these modes should be simple, like a menu option or an option before login. Having to use command line or search through settings for this would ruin the experience.
4124: Better support for multiple monitors.
Don't be like Unity. I would like the option to move the application bar where I see fit. Also, do not like having to type / search for applications. There was nothing wrong with the old application bar.
4125: No more apples in the vending machine, please.
Those are some big f'n buttons.
4126: Personally, I was very happy with gnome2. I felt I could at a very quick glance see all programs installed on my system, and I could switch windows easily without having to deal with desktop "effects" that get in the way. As it stands, I use gnome 3.2 only in its classic mode.
Three things I'd change in gnome:
1. Bring back traditional panels with applets (not in "classic" mode)
2. Make the shell interface optional and in addition to the panels
3. Bring back the old ALT-TAB behavior
I just don't understand the draw with redesigning the desktop. The panel / menu interface has existed for years and become a standard feature in all major OS's. Such a dramatic shift of paradigm forces me to re-learn a lot of things, and the dynamic nature of it destroys any muscle memory (and prevents new connections being made, since one is required to search through a pile of icons).
I understand that new things are fun and can help bring users in, but such wide-spread things like this should be optional while its value to the community (and to your users) is evaluated.
4127: FAST BOOT
SIMPLICITY OF GUI
EFFICIENCY AND SPEED
ALLOW SELECTION OF NON BLOAT MODE
4128: I would improve the open source video drivers so that you do not need proprietary drivers to run Gnome 3.
Work on stability first for Gnome 3 and then add the ability to customize the desktop.
4129: Unity drives me batty. I'd sure like something that made it go away. I'd like to see GNOME be more friendly to focus-follows-mouse use, although it is not too bad. I'd like to see it take more of a direction of providing apps easy ways to *be* consistent with each other, rather than simply replace apps that aren't consistent.
I understand you were trying to be bold with Unity, but I can't help but feel like you failed to appreciate the level of user feedback that *every* UI team embraces.
4130: .gvfs is great
4131: Better themes and control over colors and fonts. Emerald-style control over window borders and panel appearance. Every window should be like Google Chrome tabs -- that is, any window could be tabbed with any other window.
4132: Better bridging of features between GNOME and KDE.
Stronger, stricter, and more disciplined collaboration with other desktop environment developers, a la FreeDesktop.org
4133: Kill GNOME 3...it is a complete insult to the people have have sense enough to use a computer effectively. Everything is so much harder to find, that's why I have rolled back to GNOME 2. When no other distro supports it, I will be moving to XFCE or LXDE.
Yes, KILL GNOME 3!!! It is utterly useless.
4134: more multiple-monitor friendliness in gnome 3.
4135: - A consistent file picker.
- Nautilus needs to allow full right-click operation in the left folder-tree pane.
- The top/bottom bars should correctly restore their contents after a screen resize (e.g. laptop with a docking station will have two different resolutions; one for the built-in monitor and one for the desktop monitor) rather than bunching all the items up.
Design for your audience, not to try to change your audience.
4136: easier and more ways to customize the settings, layouts notifications
great work! gnome3 is better than anything i've used before.
4137: 1. I would like to see some sort of "legacy" option that would enable the look and feel of the GNOME 2x series.
2. It would be nice to be able to customize the whole desktop.
3. gconf reminds me too much or regedit... In a bad way. Config files should be organized inside of ~/.config/gnome/
4138: to stop being assholes and make something usable and enable alot more customization
yes i know you're doing this work out of the goodness of your hearts, but alot of people also depend on gnome to be reliable and not dumbed down
4139: Customizability, I would like a mini-version that I can add things to, Im currently using fluxbox since its so easy to modify keybindings and the tiny little panel showing only a clock and small boxes that represents the windows that are open on the current desktop is really all i need..
Also, I havent used GNOME in a while but if I tried it again I would love to see the windows 7 feature where you can drag a window to the left or right and it automatically resizes and takes up half the screen.. this would have to also be customizable though.. My 24" screen makes "half-screen applications" a little to big..
4140: Keep backwards usability compatibility with GNOME 2.
Support user preferences in GNOME 3.
Stop removing functionality from upgrade releases.
It is perfectly ok to want to experiment with user interface methodologies, it is how we advance the art. But don't do it at the expense of a model that works. If GNOME 3 was a new project (i.e. not GNOME) I'd give it a try while keeping GNOME 2 installed on my system. That way I could have a bleeding edge UI to play with, but a working one for getting things done day by day. Gnome3 is just like 'new coke'. New coke wasn't bad-- but it wasn't coke. Gnome 3 diminishes the whole brand.
4141: Go back to the 2.x interface.
Go back to the 2.x interface. Please.
4142: 1.) The tight cross dependency and expectance of conformance. For example, I shouldn't have to rewrite half of the DE just to use Thunar if I want it instead of Nautilus for file browsing, desktop rendering, etc. Give me back my freedom of choice!
2.) I am part developer, part artist. Could you please dumb down theme and engine creation? The docs give me a headache.
3.) Lighten the load! One of the joys of Linux is that it can be run on anything, but GNOME lags on old hardware (Pentium 2 with 396mb ram). This is an outrageous request, and I'm aware of it ~ but it's on my personal wishlist, and you asked.
Make that fork of 2.x happen. 3.x is useless to a programmer and feels like the GNOME team thinks that users should be protected from all the complexity of being productive and intuitive. The shell was so unwieldly that even fifteen minutes with it was too long to me.
I use GNOME to do more than just wobble windows and such ~ I use GNOME because I love the look and feel of GTK and the GNOME experience. When you change the desktop to be like a touchscreen device when it is not, by any stretch, you are devaluing everything that I love in GNOME.
I don't like feeling like an anonymous coward. I am J. Lake, alias copb.phoenix online. I can be reached at [email protected] .
4143: one thing, go back to 2.x
1 go back to 2.x
2 listen to your users
4144: Speed it back up for my hardware. Bring back the task bar. Allow calendar to integrate with Google Calendars without having to set up Evolution or some other client-side program.
I actually like the new application-launcher, just wished it would run faster/more smoothly on my laptop.
4145: Window placement
Advanced options like KDE
Ditch GnomeShell
Merge with KDE
4146: Ability to specify clock format in panel.
4147: Better management of multiple workspaces/desktops
4148: Logos overlayed on top of open windows in the "Activities" area (when there are many windows, they can all look the same at first glance) as well as better window placement. Though there is a good extension available to mimic KDE in this space.
Search should also search for documents.
Calendar applet able to talk directly to multiple calendars (ie. exchange, google etc.)
Overall I am satisfied with Gnome 3, but there must be more room for customisation or it is easy to see a drop in user adoption.
4149: 1) Do not remove the customization options. I do not want "stupid user mode"
2) Make it more configurable
3) More stable please!
1) Do not remove the customization options. I do not want "stupid user mode"
2) Make it more configurable
3) More stable please!
4150: Better performance. It is a bit heavy sometimes - compared to openbox that is. Could be that I just need better config possibilities?
It is always hard to find where monitor setting is, resolution, power save and stuff. You do not do it very often, and when you do you do not remember where you did it last time. place it at the right click on desktop!
I really like the openbox/enlightenment "click-on-desktop-and-get-application-meny"
Gnome is the best desktop! (2.x that is. I do not know 3.x)
4151: 1. More configuration (so that I don't have to search internet for gconf2-editor every time)
2. I would like it to have FVWM or VTWM style virtual screen.
3. Allow users to have more choice of style. Now, GNOME3 style has even less choice for users than GNOME2 for themes, etc.
Don't deviate from the tradition too much unless you want to chase the old users and just attract new users. May be this is what GNOME is currently hoping for?
4152: better space usage; see unity (global menu ...)
quicklists (like unity)
keep on the good work
4153: - a better GUI device manager
- increased stability
Keep Gnome 2.x style interface in Gnome 3.x (at least as alternative option on install or as post install configuration)
4154: 1. Don't remove perfectly good configuration options from the user in the interest of
2. See number 1
3. See number 1
Please, for the love of Cthulhu, don't remove every single configuration option in the pursuit of some fallacious ideal of usability! Hide the real options behind a big, scary "Advanced" button or something, I really don't care how you do it; but please, at least make it POSSIBLE for advanced users to customize the environment and applications the way they want. Don't be the usability dictator, decreeing how the software "should" be used and deciding that certain configuration choices should never be made. Isn't this free software—which, as I seem to recall, means free as in freedom? Perhaps the freedom to configure the software as the user desires is being overlooked. If I want my software to be non-configurable, locked down, and designed "for my own good", I will buy an Apple product, thank you very much.
4155: 1. GTK tree control would have dotted lines like WinXP.
2. Keyboard shortcuts would _always_ work.
3. Panel icons would _never_ move around.
Gnome 3.x is looking good, but don't forget about the power users. I get the impression that Gnome devs think everyone is only using netbooks anymore. As a C/C++/shell developer and power user, I need the shell to do what I tell it quickly and then get out of the way so I don't even know it's there. Gnome 3.x, Unity, OS X, and Win 8 shells are all working hard to be distinctive and innovative, which is great, but not when it's in the way and interrupting my workflow. I believe that a perfectly designed shell is one that I barely know exists, I take totally for granted, and barely ever think about. My shell is not the software I want to use, it's the software that gets me to the software I want to use.
4156: Typing break break postponement policy (had to change the code when new gnome insisted that postponement be postponed 5 seconds)
Easier to hack config files
Easier way to figure things out than on forums
4157: Stop making Gnome "stupid people friendly". In gnome 3 the ability to easily customise the top toolbar was taken away, leaving blank spaces. Silly things, like the forced clock position turned me back to using 2.x where my laptop is again my own.
I would like to be able to use some of the ideas from gnome 3 in 2.x such as the notification settings and "top left" systemwide search bar.
4158: I'm writing about Gnome 3.2
1. Configurability (NOT write-your-own-shell-extension style)
2. Stop wasting my precious vertical space: 1 row for the top bar
+ 1 row for the menu bar. At least, the top bar could be placed on the side, new monitors are 16:9 but people are still reading top-to-bottom!! I need every last vertical pixel I can get.
Only two. See how kind I am?
See 22.
4159: Simple shutdown option from menu. Multiple windows accessible from menu bar, or possibly allow the side dock to have an auto-hide feature where it appears as you hover over it.
Gnome-tweak tool options included by default!
You guys are doing great! I love the innovation of gnome 3 and I'm completely behind the changes.
4160: Get it back to the look of version 2.
Fix the bug with nvidia cards showing black windows.
Explain what you meant to do and how version 3 is meant to be used.
4161: I would like to have the old launcher bar back (with applications, places, system). I also want better video support (i'm not highly trained in this area, but i don't feel that i have enough flexibility regarding screen resolution) and my last change would be more extensive integration with core utilities (sed, awk, grep, etc) through the gui. as far as i can tell, besides the feeling of Freedom, this is the single greatest advantage of the gnu system: the ability to take all of this open, free data, and shape it to our own use.
I picked gnome over kde back in September of 2004 when i was shopping around for my first linux distro i could install. it was a requirement because i was not fond of how integrated konquerer was with kde, and i had grown used to using certain utilities on WinXP (openoffice.org, firefox, gaim). I did not like that kde came (by default) associating certain tasks with applications i had not learned well. Gnome seemed to be more modular, and I appreciated that (as well as the GPL). so as i see major aspects of the user experience change, i wonder if it might not be better to keep it simple, silly. i do want to underscore the great admiration that i feel toward individuals who contribute to Free software. I appreciate deeply all of the work that you do.
4162: Get a better default Font for Gnome 3
Merge with Unity. Two seperate desktops pretty much suck.
4163: Bring back metacity as a fully supported window manager!
Make the icons in menus show up before the first click!
Show window contents when Alt-Tabbing!
Keep up the good work.
4164: notifications always visible
4165: Better integration of Empathy, Rhythmbox, etc. with Gnome-Shell.
More meaningful information and useful controls in the panel of Gnome-Shell.
More settings available in System Settings, so users won't need to mess with gsettings/dconf to do simple things like defining the behaviour of closing the lid for laptop (Suspend by default, yuck...).
Keep the good work, it's always hard in the beginning, but I believe Gnome is making steps in the right direction, it just needs more polishing. Also, please, respect the wishes of the users, there are many great ideas in Gnome 3, but there are also many inconveniences, which can be fixed easily, I guess. I like the idea of "advanced settings" in System Settings, even if <10% of the users will need to use them anyway. For me, it will improve the usability very much.
4166: 1) I would not hide settings/options from the GUI
2) I would make more settings/options available from the GUI
4167: don't attempt to be like Ubuntu's Unity interface, go back to a "start" button interface
4168: more customization options
4169: Get the fuck back to 2.x
What were you thinking?
4170: Improve multi-screen/xinerama/TwinView support (right now, gnome-shell crashes unceremoniously for me)
Improve stability (feature freeze until all reported crashing bugs have been squashed - I currently cannot use even "official" extensions as they crash gnome-shell instantly)
There could stand to be more window controls, and a more powerful tiling layout would not go unappreciated. (I'm thinking something like XMonad, but maybe not so hard-core.)
Prioritize stability over all else. Put everything, including UI improvements *two* steps lower priority than all stability issues.
Provide a better tool than gnome-tweak-tool for "advanced" settings: as it is, tweak-tool has very poor feedback and functionality - it's not clear when or how its settings come into effect (there's no apply and there's no instant pop as visual settings change) and choosing themes seems to have no effect at all.
I really like the behavior of Unity with regard to menus and the title bar on maximize. Having the title bar (maybe optionally) disappear when maximizing would add a significant amount of vertical space (especially given that the default themes make the title bar so hideously big and waste so much space). Menus that work like the old Amiga Workbench offer, in my mind, a better experience, as the menu is unobtrusively tucked away where it's still easily accessed.
Most importantly:
Do away with this insane "desktop" idiom. This metaphor may have worked well for early computing, when people still had fling cabinets and places to stash piles of paperwork. These days, the metaphor is painfully strained to the point of obsolescence. The concepts of activities and structured relationships among programs seems to make a good deal more sense in this modern world. This isn't the 80's any more.
4171: A sane timeout on unlocked SSH keys in the keyring! I have to manually run ssh-add -D at the moment if I want to re-lock my keys.
I like the way window managers like DWM, XMonad and scrotwm work, i.e. stacking WM's, but they are too bare-bones for me. Keyring, power management, volume applet are all essential parts of a desktop and a lot of work to set up in these WM's. So I would add just one thing, a way to run one of these WM's under GNOME. (Maybe it's already possible.)
Another thing these stacking WM's use is dmenu, which is a very awesome way to start a program, however when you use it you get a list of _every_ binary on your system, and it doesn't make sense to run grep or ls from your desktop. So something like that but which goes through the application menu and your user files would be cool.
Thanks for all the awesomeness! I haven't used GNOME 3 yet, but I didn't customize a whole lot in Gnome 2. If the defaults are sane, I'm sure I could live with it. Unity was a reason for me to abandon Ubuntu for Debian, though.
4172: i don't remember now, but i had plenty of bitches when i switched to xfce on my laptop. it was probably heavily derived from how resource intensive gnome was compared to xfce. i've not used gnome 3.
thanks for all your hard work! the floss community is indebted to you.
4173: 1. I want to be able to move the favorites dock wherever I want it, I really hate having it on the right side of the screen and would rather have it at the bottom.
2. make a power off button readily available, right now the only option is "suspend" but I have an extension installed so that there's a power off button as well. a special extension shouldn't be necessary though!
3. I don't like how the bottom "taskbar (i dunno what to call it)" pops up if i put the mouse in the bottom right hand corner. when an app is maximized the scroll down button is RIGHT THERE. ALSO when a notification comes up in the bottom task bar I'm not able to interact with any other window until i click down there to dismiss it. that's a pain.
make the integrated calendar work with thunderbird instead of just evolution.
4174: remove the need for Terminal
remove the need for Terminal
4175: 2.x should be continued
4176: - Adding proper way to configure the desktop and all features of desktop
- Remove the 'necessity' OpenGL acceleration for the desktop to work
- Don't try to oversimplify the desktop
You did the same as KDE devs did with KDE 4.0: put it out too early in use and added cool features without anything useful. Please look back why users liked Gnome and go forward with the similar features as with Gnome 2 had.
4177: people created a good paradigm with the "everything is a file" and you are destroying that with your "everything is stupid" one
4178: Frequently the menu bars disappear...I'm thinking it is a driver issue with radeon cards and fusion...but I don't know. I just know it is irritating as all get out to have to mouse over it repeatedly to find the missing menu and the text within it.
4179: Make it more configurable
Listen to the views of the users, and provide more desktop-friendly options to GNOME3
4180: Huge strides made since 2.3x and 3.x. I feel quite annoyed when all I see is negativity and vitriol about the UI changes in gnome. UI design is a hugely difficult task to get right, and the gnome guys have done themselves proud.
There are always improvements that can be made (it would be nice if gnome Shell were more configurable, for example) but the defaults are sane and that's more important than giving users the ability to configure to the nth degree.
Keep it up. You're doing great work.
4181: More customizability in GNOME 3. Better theme support. Keybindings.
Keep up the good work! I love Gnome Shell. Very productive environment and beautiful as well.
4182: where are all the options gone? sing 3 times
develop Gnome 2.x !!! Go, Go, Go!
I only use dual screen setups with the panel on the right hand, no top, no bottom panel...
this is unconfigurable in gnome 3 huh?
not everyone uses netbooks or tablets and PCs are not dead!
4183: 1) gnome shell can live if it needs to, but please, the fallback mode of gnome 3 is just crap
2) enhance the vfs, i often need to work on a ftp which disconnects very often (ftp setting) and then I get ugly error messages in nautilus/gedit, it reconnects in the background though and then i can save... would be good that instead of the error, that it just reconnects and then do what i want (eg save file)
3) more configuration options
Are you using gnome shell yourself? It seems not very well-thought-out. The ways of the mouse are too long for me and I really hate the new alt-tab behaviour when there are two windows of one app, seems to be impossible to select one of the sub windows with the mouse, instead you have to use both hands?! maybe I'm missing something... Also I can't live without a window switcher in the task bar... And! I want to be able to use a desktop which doesn't need a 3d graphics card... I also want to be able to use it remote!!
4184: 1. Eliminate the Gnome 3 Shell
2. Continue with the Gnome 2.x form factor with Shell as an option/fork.
3. Show that you understand what evolution means.
Now needing 3 clicks to receive a pellet instead of the previous 2 is not progress. It's regression.
Continue Gnome 3.x where Gnome 2.x left off. What Gnome 3 and Gnome Shell have become are useless both on the desktop and on touchpad. There is no hardware market for what Gnome 3 and Gnome Shell have become.
4185: I would like to use the Gnome Shell for searching files, like you can see in this blog entry http://blogs.gnome.org/abustany/2011/03/20/weekend-hack-gnome-shell-tracker-integration/
And there is one really annoying thing. When I click on the button "Don't show this notification again", these notifications still pop up, they are just smaller. Is it possible for those notifications to expire after some seconds.
Thank you very much for your efforts. Great job.
4186: 1) replace new on-off-switch widgets by checkboxes (on-off switches are unintuitive (at least for me), bad for localization (longer words do not fit) and need more space)
2) ?
3) ?
(can't say more, because I have not yet used Gnome 3)
4187: Use windows button to start menu, not ALT+F1.
Use Linux Mint menu as a standard.
Don't put the buttons and the menubar at the top of the screen. Keep them in the window you are using especially the buttons.
4188: - need a lighter gnome. xfce?
4189: i would back to the default gnome 2 style, put the left dockbar always visible in gnome 3 and put the workspace visually accessible.
please, consider the user. without users there is no gnome desktop. thanks.
4190: 1. Make Samba sharing as reliable and easy to use and as possible. A very strong selling point of any Linux distribution is compatibility with Windows networks. I really wish DM makers will someday understand that.
2. Make keyboard shortcuts more reliable. Related to Compiz or not, Gnome should have some sort of sanity checks for the keyboard configuration and perhaps ask the user to allow fixing it if misfunctionalities are found. I lost Alt-Tab on two different PCs and you know what that means for someone who mastered Norton Commander and Win 3.x/9x/XP with the keyboard. You can legitimately ask why a "master of *" doesn't learn how to fix his Gnome. The answer is: I don't think this is the kind of issue I should look a solution for. It should simply work because it's basic stuff.
3. An automatic fix/hack for the mouse click lag issues found in X. Moving windows and clicking is terrible in Linux generally speaking. Considering I'm a Gnome user I'd prefer Gnome to include some sort of fix for this.
Learn from KDE's mistakes. They didn't listen to their users when they started their work on KDE 4. It took them 4 years to finally get to a point where people actually started to consider KDE. And Gnome 3 is on of the reasons even more people start reconsidering KDE. I was a KDE user as well and I just had to leave it because they abandoned the v3.x development. Until Gnome 3 gets stable and fully featured you should still update Gnome 2.
I have no idea what will happen now. Luckily I'm a Linux Mint user and the main developer is by far one of the best at listening to what the people really need and want. So the Linux Mint apps are polished with community feedback, and the operating system as a whole is more enjoyable because of the many little fixes here and there. If Clement Lefebvre would have a team as large as Gnome has, WOW! He would certainly put Ubuntu and others to shame.
Also learn from other developers. Take the Windows ones for example:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/11/reflecting-on-your-comments-on-the-start-screen.aspx
What I mean is your work on Gnome 3 needs to get more transparent and the users should have evidence that you collect and properly use their feedback. It's one thing when you develop for your own needs and something different when you publish something as big as Gnome 3 and praise how great it is, while faking blindness on the really bad/undeveloped parts of it.
Gnome 3.2 looks much better but I would rather wait for v3.4 until I give it a chance. Hopefully I won't have to move back to KDE just because Gnome broke my user experience and productivity. I'm not switching DE's for fun. I just want to do my stuff without bloat and excessive bling standing in my way. So please listen to your users. Good luck!
4191: More user options for settings.
Bring back old things like the button for switching to breadcrumb (using the short cut keys are not the same and i always for get what it is when i switch between computers with other OS/Desktop environments).
I don´t understand the "fear" of buttons and also I can understand that some changes are for the better but give users a chance to use the old look and feel if they want, like the breadcrumb button could easily be an tick box option in the settings.
I still like Gnome but it feels like its moving away from me and how i like to use my computer.
More user options for settings.
Bring back old things like the button for switching to breadcrumb (using the short cut keys are not the same and i always for get what it is when i switch between computers with other OS/Desktop environments).
I don´t understand the "fear" of buttons and also I can understand that some changes are for the better but give users a chance to use the old look and feel if they want, like the breadcrumb button could easily be an tick box option in the settings.
I still like Gnome but it feels like its moving away from me and how i like to use my computer.
4192: Give back the configuration options that existed in Gnome2.x back to Gnome 3.
Would prefer to be able to turn off the eyecandy and get a normal taskbar back.
4193: 1) Revert back to GNOME 2's desktop metaphor model
2) Stop assuming all users are the same and no users have ever used a computer before
3) Remove dependencies on PulseAudio
GNOME3 was responsible yesterday for the sad state of demonstrators in a Computer Science software laboratory having to show a heavily confused group of second-year students in the room __how to open a *text editor* and *terminal*__. For me, this just goes to prove how counter-intuitive the GNOME3 "desktop" is for people (read: nearly all computer users in my generation) who have been brought up using the tried-and-true desktop metaphor.
4194: Have nautilus tell you where a file is located once you find it with search. Better documentation for MountManager
Do not hide information and options in an attempt to make it easier to use.
4195: 1. MUCH more usability customizability!
2. MUCH more visual customizability!
3. MUCH more general customizability!
Stop thinking you know how the world thinks. The great thing about Linux is that you can do what you want.
Compiz made that possible on Gnome 2, but now, on Gnome 3, all that is gone. So now I'm useing XCFE instead.
4196: 1) Reintroduce at least the same level of customization of the interface as found in Gnome 2.
2) Easily allow the replacement of evolution with other mail/calendar applications (eg. thunderbird/lightning, google mail/calendar).
3) Avoid the use of things like "hot corner" or at least propose an easy way to disable them.
Don't try to force users to use programs they don't like/wan't (see point 2 of question 22). It's ok (and welcomed) to propose default applications but having part of the interface only working with those application is an annoyance.
4197: I try to use the keyboard as much as possible and the mouse as less as possible. This is achieved by using shortcuts. Please make sure that this is possible with future versions of gnome.
To start programs on gnome 2.x (Ubuntu 11.04) I use "Gnome Do" which is simply excellent. However it doesn't work as good in gnome 3 (Fedora 15). This might not be the Gnome Team's problem but a good (mouseless) way to start applications, switch applications (alt-tab and ~-tab are good but not great) and view a list of the open ones would be ideal.
4198: - keep gnome2's UI
- try to get Videocalls working without skype / integrate some SIP-client
- split evolution, try to get one client for each task
First of all, a big THANK YOU for good work over the years :)
Second, just that you know, i really tried gnome3 with the shell (@home and @work like for a week), but it's just not made for me (ever tried it with 2 screens?)
4199: Get rid of that shell thing.
Reason for including mono??
Give users what they want and not what you think is best for them, because you said so.
If you really want gnome for dumbasses, only dumbasses will use it.
4200: notification (pidgin etc.)
widget (cpu load,ram etc..)