What People Are Saying About GNOME [Part 6]

6001: 1: While the new alt+tab functionality is beneficial in some scenarios it breaks one quite hard. Using a single alt+tab to easily switch back and forth between two windows (especially of the same type). I'm not saying the new behavior should be reverted, but I can't believe that this is a rare use case.

2: There should be a better network "flag" when attached to a VPN like on the old nm-applet.

3: stop removing things. use an advanced tab or something if you want to simplify the primary view, but realize that the majority of your users want access to those features.

Remember that your audience is regular users AND power/eccentric/skilled users. Making it accessible for regular is great, but not at the loss of the latter.

Gnome 3 is kewl... I appreciate it.

6002: More configurability. Hiding complexity is fine, removing it entirely is unacceptable.

More plugin support. If the core GNOME team doesn't want to bear the support burden for certain features, they should at least officially support a plugin API that allows easy extensibility.

Built-in support for theming is not optional. It's a core requirement of any sane WM.

Every user is different and has different needs. You can't expect a single way of doing things to appeal to everyone. This means that if you care about having a broad appeal, GNOME *NEEDS* to support configurability and customization.

I've been following the cult of "It should Just Work {tm}" since Robert Love's pre-emptibility patches arrived in the 2.3-2.4 kernels. I get it. I agree with the whole idea. The default behavior really, really should "Just Work".

However, that's not where the software should stop. It *also* needs to cope with what happens if those defaults *DON'T* "just work". One failure case is when you've got a GNOME user that wants something other than the supplied defaults. His desires are just as "right" as yours are.

At the end of the day, you've got two basic choices:

1. You can tell the user he's wrong and he should like your chosen defaults (or else go elsewhere)
2. You can realize that maybe you're not God's Gift to User Experience, and that telling your users they're wrong or they don't know what they want is a great way to destroy everything that GNOME has built over the last decade.

Finally, Havoc Pennington's recent blog post is totally spot-on here: http://blog.ometer.com/2011/10/24/it-has-to-work/

For a great many people, GNOME 3.0 and 3.2 do not "just work". I'm not one of them. I really dig the Gnome Shell. I think it's great, but I'm not such a giant egomaniac that I think everyone who doesn't love it is wrong or stupid or dislikes it purely because they're resistant to change.

6003: The screen real estate could be better used. There is too much padding on the windows and buttons.

Make customization of the window and widget sizes more accessible. Perhaps having a few basic options available via GUI?

Notifications in the lower-right of the screen seems out of place. An option to put those into "bubbles" that could appear anywhere according the user's choice may be nice.

I wish there were more involvement between the end-users and the development folks. While encourage feedback from users may increase the signal to noise ratio, there will likely be some useful feedback - it's also more in the spirit of being "open."

6004: Developers who care about the prefrences and needs of their _existing_ userbase.

6005: More translation
Search capability
Better theme (especially in icon)

GNOME 3 is more comfortable than Unity, but it would be long time to be mature and need more user ask about. GNOME3 is just a baby and I hope more than Unity

6006: 1. Multimonitor config with one monitor above the other.
2. Advanced system configuration graphic interface (printer...)
3. Not much...

6007: More obvious for people new to the desktop. Whenever I had my laptop to someone else, they're completely lost as to what to do with it. Maybe if I could switch to a "guest" user, and logging in that user would light up the Activites menu and pop up tooltips?

For me, I'd like to see applications be able to pin to virtual desktops. In OSX, I can tell Firefox to always be on the second desktop, terminal always on the first, and my IM app to float on all of them. I sort of had this working with the auto-move-windows extension, but that extension requires hacking with dconf, and when I open an application that's pinned to a virtual desktop, it doesn't get focused, so I don't see it open.

Finally, I'd like to see more emphasis on extensions, adding advanced configuration options to the system settings panel, theming - general hackability and tweakability. For the most part, Gnome 3 meets my use-cases, but every once in a while I want to change something, like getting rid of the Accessibility options icon which I'll never use. I had an extension for that in 3.0, but it's broken in 3.2. Fedora mentioned that this would be coming back via a web interface off gnome.org, but that hasn't arrived yet.

I *hated* Gnome 2, and whenever I got dumped into it by accident, I felt dirty. I thought it was a hideous hodge-podge of UX elements from Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Mac all cobbled together into a nasty, goofy, bloated mess. I used Fluxbox and XFCE, until I got a Mac. Now that I'm running Linux again, Gnome 3 has won be back to Gnome. It's fast, minimal, beautiful, and keyboard friendly. I have almost all the features I used on OSX back, plus more, and I'm not confined to Apple's walled garden any more. I love Gnome 3.2 - the Empathy integration significantly improved my workflow (notifications on when I'm feeling chatty, off when I'm working), and the tighter integration with Deja Dup, including useful feedback as to the results of my backup mean I could get rid of my cron job that I had in 3.0 to check the results of a backup.

TL;DR - don't listen to the haters, this is brilliant stuff, keep up the great work!

6008: - more usability (even for advanced users), especially:
-> do not distract the user if not necessary
-> don't hide information (e.g. new IM messages are only shown once, they are not visible after the pop-up vanished - hovering the mouse to the bottom to see the messages is not considered usability)

- if switching over to new applications/technology (e.g. pidgin -> empathy) make sure it works from the beginning

- don't assume that all of your users are stupid

6009: Go back to KDE like interface with easy to configure everything control center.

The "new" gnome pushed me to move to KDE.

6010: 1. make all open windows available through Alt-tab
2. allow the user to customize the desktop easily
3. make it faster

Gnome 3 is not perfect, but it made me switch from KDE. It introduced the first really beautiful linux desktop. Keep up the good work. You're doing great.
Don't start to copy Mac OS. This is Linux!

6011: gnome-shell plugins which actually works

6012: 1. Continue the development of GNOME 2.x

6013: Options for aesthetics similar to plamsa in KDE would be nice

6014: INTEGRATION, INTEGRATION, INTEGRATION

6015: Doing it myself, removing anything linked to gtk/glib libraries. All what i need is lot of terminals, emacs and a web browser. I need OpenGL for my applications, not for effects.

Keep it simple, stupid.

6016: nvidia compatibility (heavy cpu consumption)
docky integrated in shell (or something more like OSX)
synapse integrated (app search with SUPER is too slow)

since now there were a good work, but there were still some improvement to realise

6017: Keep Gnome 2 alive - Gnome 3 is not an advance.

6018: Easier application switching

6019: a graphic way to add extensions and themes

6020: GNOME 3 needs improvement:

1. GNOME 3 network manager is useless. I'm using the old GNOME 2 network manager, which is hidden.

2. Desktop customization took a step backwards in GNOME 3. Desktop shortcuts, panels and a taskbar.

3. Easier access to settings. The GNOME 3 settings menu is sparse.

6021: * Navigate amongs windows with the keyboard when using the activities view exactly like the scale plugin of compiz or even better with find windows as you type like in the equivalent kde plasma plugin.

* A way to reach the Status menu with the keyboard

* Privacy options to disable "recent used items" for some directories or documents.

The GUI is designed for tablets and touchscreen but it wastes precious space on small screens. With big screens, the hot corner is too far away. Fortunately,there is the windows key.

Bring back a unified way to change icons, themes, wallpapers without using gnome-tweak-tool.

The application menu next to the Activities button has no purpose.

6022: GNOME Shell is very nice, but much to slow for my PC. I have to switch to Xfce (Xubuntu) that resembles Gnome 2. I'm still using Gnome 2 and 3 applications off course.

Yes. Make sure Gnome 3/Shell also works completely with older hardware. I was always able to run Gnome 2 without any problems, now I need a faster PC to run Gnome 3 successfully (swell it woks, but to slow).

6023: Too different from Gnome 2. Not everyone wants or needs to use an interface designed (apparently) for touch screens and netbooks; at least for right now. I still want to/need to use Linux and Gnome no longer makes that easy or possible from a usability perspective. It took me less time to learn as much as I felt that I needed to with XFCE than Gnome 3 and I will stick with that for the time being.

Customization!! Get some feedback from your users (or at least those who used to be).

6024: Compatibility to run earlier applets - I can't live with my IP ping monitor, external IP address, etc applets.

Fine to add new features or options but be very careful about taking away options unless you a similar functionality.

6025: - Merge title bar and top panel when windows are maximized (like unity)

- Reduce default font size

- Anticipate dual head configurations where the verital resolutions of the screens are different. Then don't create dialog boxes that end up (partially) off screen on the "shorter" one.

Keep up the good work.

6026: Migration from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3 was better than Kde one (3.5 to 4.x).

6027: sorry too late, i switched all user workstations including my own over to xfce

yep, thx for destroying a perfectly usable desktop

6028: I would change Gnome shell favourites dock to something accessible like Mac OSX dock or even Unity's dock

I would change the top panel to something that i can tweak as i want it

remember, remember the UI design principles, one of them being Listening to feedback

6029: Bring back gnome-panel, bring back gnome-panel, bring back gnome-panel.

Listen to your users or they will go away

6030: Continue developping links with cloud accounts

6031: Clutter - please ditch it. It's performance is worse than bad, unusable even on a good machine.

Listen to people! You're ignoring everyone, pretending to know the best. You've got some good ideas, but sometimes you need to ask the community - does this make sense?

6032: 1.
I would make GNOME more customisable:
- top panel should be movable to any position.
- the virtual desktops should be arranged in any position, not only in a vertical row (e.g., in a horisontal row or a grid). It is very hard to focus with anything more than 3-4 virtual desktops.
- Alt-Tab behaviour should be fully customisable. e.g., I would want that Alt-Tab switches between all opened windows on the current desktop (and NOT between programs on all desktops). This is a fundamental feature which should be present by default, and not by extensions (which BTW do not always work as intended)

2.
Extensions are a very nice feature and an elegant way to extend the shell. However there are many incompatibilities, especially with most recent releases. I think the Gnome developers should offer more support to extensions developers. Perhaps offer the posibility to include third party extensions to upstream, at last for the most popular and useful extensions.

3.
Some applications are note really useable without more customisation. For example editable keyboard shortcuts in Evolution (this I can live with) and Gedit (this I cannot live with). I am using kate and emacs at work each with different sets of shortcuts. Ok, kate uses standard shortcuts, so it is ok. But on the home computer it is quite annoying to have to switch to yet another set of shortcuts (which BTW is quite different from the standard shortcuts). So basically, I had to have to give up using Gedit and use kate and emacs within Gnome. Which is a shame since gedit is otherwise a nice editor.

I really like the new Gnome concepts and I accept that it is a new project, which still lacks many features. IMO the current state is quite stable but it still misses customisability options. So I am still patient and really hope that the future release will bring more customisability (although I was a little disappointed to see this did not happen with Gnome 3.2)

6033: 1. Include some window tiling methods, such as those found in the compiz plugin, or programs like Splitwin Revolution.

2. Make GDM more customizable.

3. Have the desktop pane on the right hand side not auto-hide.

GNOME 3 is a fantastic piece of work. I think other users are being a little too harsh. It looks beautiful, the Google contacts etc integration is amazing, and it ultimately makes for a more enjoyable experience using a computer.

To me GNOME 3 represents the next step in desktop design. There are certainly those with criticisms, such as "why doesn't it support icons on the desktop!? D:" Personally, I'm of the opinion that icons on the desktop just create unnecessary clutter, but perhaps GNOME 3 should support their wishes too? Just to help them with the transition to the future of desktops.

Keep up the good work guys. Don't let the others get you down =)

6034: NetworkManager
Controls (return back the old ones)
Community relations

6035: - I'd like to Alt+Tab (switching between windows) to other key combination
- apps are forced to quit when I try to shutdown my computer, what is IMO wrong. I didn't have this problem on G2

6036: Stop adding new features to GTK+.

Take the MX toolkit as the flagship and add the new features and widgets to it.

Make a new treeview with good support for dragging and dropping multiple rows and another for entering dates

Spend more resources to make more and better tools for application developers.

Please give application developers good tools and they will make GNOME even more popular.

6037: focus, focus, focus

6038: 1.return to GNOME 2

Help start a fork of GNOME 2 to see which sells.

6039: Better support for multiple screens

Gnome 3 is going in the wrong direction, I like the current use of workspaces and panels etc. The new gnome shell is no good for a development environment.

6040: - kill gnome shell
- fix gnome-panel
- change emphasis from complete rewrites and shiny new toys to bugfixes and incremental improvements

1. stop treating your users like cretins.
2. we use linux and gnome *because* they're different to windows and Mac OSX, not because we want a half-arsed clone of them.
3. learn to focus your attention for more than 5 minutes - fix bugs and finish the job before moving on to the next shiny new toy.

6041: Bring back Gnome 2.

No more Gnome Shell.

6042: To make it easy to make it more... "spectacular", to be able to "sell" it to young people who only know Windows.

6043: Thanks for the good job :-)

6044: - Mounting network drives and managing previously-mounted drives could be nicer
- I'd prefer horizontal tiling of workspaces (e.g. along the bottom of the screen in the zoomed-out view)

(It is difficult for me to think of improvements, because I think that, especially with the new GNOME 3.x, the usability is extremely high).

- It's a great DE, but I think discoverability of features for new users may be an issue. Maybe some more documentation, or some kind of tutorial mode to let new users learn all the tricks would help, afterall, the functionality is (mostly) all there, but it is not always obvious how to get to it.
- This is especially true if some extra program must be installed to provide some functionality (e.g. LVM management GUI). Although that example may not be good because I'm not sure if that is part of GNOME itself
- Lots of 3rd party applications (e.g. Inkscape or the GIMP) built on GTK have *really* user-unfriendly interfaces. Although the GNOME team have lots of UI understanding, it doesn't seem to make its way into 3rd party apps. Maybe a 'GNOME certification' for 3rd party apps that meet certain usability and accessibility standards would be nice. It would give the developers something to strive for, and would improve the overall GNOME experience (since the boundary between App and DE is probably a bit artificial from a user's perspective).

6045: I was very satisfied with Gnome 2; now, after several weeks of frustrating with Gnome 3 I definitively switched to other DE (XFCE). I'm not very ambitious user - all what I want is quickly select from many used apps and run them, work at multiple monitors and with multiple windows simutaneously with possibility arrange them, and quickly and intuitively use keyboard shortcuts and mouse. Possibility for setting default and/or ferced options for all users via commandline tool (as gconftool-2 did) is welcomed.

In this survey should be clearly stated when is talking about Gnome 2- and when about Gnome 3 - how I have reply e.g. question 05, when about Gnome2 I'd say "Completely" and about Gnome3 "Not At All" ?

Gnome 3 was developed by same team as Gnome 2?
They was insaned or tampered by competitions?

6046: the applications menu

6047: Make the whole thin Unix like(one program for one task with nice configurability)
Sane switch window
Only one systray

Collaborate with other projects, there's trend GNOME to be seen as place of donkeys who can not work with anybody but them self. Cross DE standards are good don't be like some companies. And forget the "if it's not made inside/around GNOME we won't use it" mantra.

6048: scrap gnome 3 and unity
bring back gnome 2.x
options for advanced users

scrap gnome 3 and unity
bring back gnome 2.x
options for advanced users

6049: I'm sure you guys already know the answers:
1. Bring back Gnome 2 !
2. Bring back Gnome 2 !!
3. Bring back Gnome 2 !!!!

I'm sorry to say this but I will not use Gnome 3; if Gnome 2 had a future I'd stick with it. The demographic that you're aiming at with Gnome 3 simply doesn't use Linux.

6050: 1) No fallback, but full 2.x like panels in recent version.
2) No fallback, but full 2.x like panels in recent version.
3) No fallback, but full 2.x like panels in recent version.

Keep working, you did great job! But stop make desktop simple - it's bad way.

6051: - go back to original start menu
- icons on desktop
- posibility to change any aspect

- I do not think that Gnome3 is the way to go!
- I understand the need for technological change but I like Gnome2 - please develop something like that!

6052: 1) Make the new Gnome desktop more configurable.
2) Bring back the menus for those that need/want them. Not everyone uses a portable touchscreen.

- Launch your own Ubuntu Gnome flavour!
- Get ATI to sort out Catalyst support for Gnome.
- Actively develop Gnome 3.2 Classic at the moment it is a crude reflection of the previous Gnome version.

6053: - Documentation
- Documentation
- complete _one_ concept and stabilze that

- good work, but please complete one thing and than do the next step

6054: 1) Keybord navigation only possibility
2) more lightweight, instant execution
3) more full-screen (no titlebar, little scroll bar, unified menu-bar)

Gnome-contacts and online-account sound good !

6055: 1. Get Reverse printing on my Epson SC760 to work
2. Keep Gnome 2 series up and running.
3 Dump Gnome 3 series.

Listen to the Users of Gnome, nto that idiot firm of consultants.

6056: .Bring back panels
.allow user to use compiz
.listen to users

I love to customize my desktop but in the new gnome ,every thing is either hidden or not at all possible .no more compiz no more changing themes (without installing tweak tool),no more menus,the new desktop is plain ugly and the worse is that you can`t do any thing about it.
Good luck with your experiment with users .. i m not participating except for this survey.

6057: 1. Bring back old application menu.
2. Bring back old approach for virtual desktops (I prefer to manage them by myself).
3. Add some functionality to top panel.
P.S. It's very unlikely I'll get back to GNOME anyway.

Touch screen devices and traditional laptops/desktops are completely different. I can hardly imagine common DE for the two groups of devices.

6058: More config options to modify the look/feel/function of the interface.
Smaller icons in the (Dash?) full desktop menu.
Allow right click menu on desktop.

I know you are trying to make the DE simple to use but there should be more options for power users.

6059: 1. BUG Fix:Sometimes the icons in the panel (gnome v2.x) spaz out with their arrangement going all haywire.(This is a very old bug)

Always good to have a look at performance; makes an impression as good as that of a nice interface.

6060: 1. Stop removing features, trying to be more appealing to new users does't mean you have to annoy old users.
2. Activities window is useless if you need to open several terminals (specially if your screen is small). I don't know how to fix that.
3. "Focus in one task at once" is completely wrong for me, and that's the main reason I can't use Gnome 3 daily. I need to be able to change context very fast, and usualy "one task" implies using 2 or 3 different applications at once (switching between several terminals, firefox, and a XMPP client it's part of my day to day job!).

I think they can't win, because it's impossible to make everybody happy all the time. That said, alienating old time users with radical changes without an alternative way to do things, it's wrong.

New users are cool, but they're not going to contribute code to Gnome, and after some time current developers and leaders will move on, and nobody will want to maintain Gnome 3 because nobody will care.

6061: make it more customizable
allow thunderbird integration
make launching apps more easy

6062: 1. In Gnome 3.2, bring back the desktop icons and be better looking pls.
2. Give more power to the users, currently the Gnome Shell is somewhat poor, need to be more complete. Plugins are filling the empty space, for next version it will be nice to see them out of the box.

3. Make it a less performance impact thing.

I like Gnome cause it satisfies much of my needs, Keep the good work!

Suggestion:

The ability to access folders with administrative privileges with easy (like right click). Very helpful.

6063: 1. gdm is terrible to configure compared to what we had several years ago (this problem predates Gnome 3.x by a few years.) We need a graphical configuration interface again, and good documentation to go with it.
2. some of gnome shell's default behaviours are just plain annoying or make no sense in my own use cases. They can be greatly improved with gnom shell extensions, but they shouldn't have to be.
3. expose more settings in system settings and document them properly. Gnome-tweak-tool shouldn't be necessary.

Gnome should make peace with Ubuntu and merge the best ideas from gnome shell and unity, since they are clearly mining the same veins. We need adult behaviour from their communities and from leaders like Mark SHuttleworth - which we haven't really had much of lately. Grow up, Gnome and Ubuntu!

6064: prevent it from freezing my computer once a week (neither kde nor xfce do it)
runtime memory footprint
make the no gnome-shell version work like old gnome 2

nuff said... please start listening to users.

6065: Loved the old applets.

Flexibility throughout.

6066: -add more options to control panel
-add messaging icon (similar to unity)
-easy way to manage gnome-shell add-on

6067: pulseaudio needs fewer hiccups, the documentation browser needs to load _way_ faster

Really really good work, it is awesome to use GNOME, thanks a lot!

6068: More extensive menus at the top of the screen (Gnome 2 user.)
User can configure the top menu bar to their desires.
No more dumbed down interfaces.

Fork Gnome 2. I have tried Kubuntu 11.10 and like it except for stability issues and the Windows-like Start menu at the bottom of the screen. Superior disk burning with K3b (stable too.) You should learn from the best and that is Apple's OS X (have used all version up to Snow Leopard. Apple knows UI design better than any other company.

6069: Offer Gnome-Shell-Extensions in a default repository.

1) Just make the Gnome-Classic type of extensions more available for transitioning users GTK2 users.
2) Add a POWER OFF button feature by default.

and,, Thank You!

6070: 1. I want the old workspaces.
2. Better reconfigurability/tweaking
3. Better documentation

6071: 1. Fix some window management issues like the fact that it is possible to get five windows to raise to the foreground by tabbing to an app, and then close one of them and see the remaining four windows be pushed down below the other apps.

2. Make unmounting in nautilus unmount external drives instead of some kind of window-like complete removal of the hardware. I know what mounting and unmounting is, let me use it!

3. (Might be a graphics issue but...) The shell animations are not very smooth, which makes the experience much less pleasing. I'm also seeing high cpu usage from gnome-shell, which might explain some of the lagginess.

I see a lot of small things that you do well with the design of the gnome 3, however I also see things that look like they were imported from Windows. This is features like ejecting an external drive instead of "only" unmounting them (I always considered the Windows, and now Gnome 3 way as clearly inferior).

I have not tried gnome 3.2 yet, but I am sure I will see many improvements over the initial release. Keep up the good work, and don't be afraid to keep things as they were from time to time ;)

6072: the theme

6073: Please, please, please make Gnome 3 more adaptable, usable, customizable that what it is now. I have the 3 version. I am going back to Gnome 2.3.2 now.

I ditched Ubuntu because of that crap Unity or Linux-Vista! I loaded Linux Mint 11. Then I installed Gnome 3.0. I want customizable Panels. And I want the options of icons on the desktop. Get rid of that funky press alt on suspend to turn of the computer. That is just stooooopid. Think of something better that the 'hot spot' in the upper left corner to do stuff. Is that the new linux 'start' button!

And ditch the 'microsoft' look and feel. Pleeeeze. I don't care about eye candy. I have work to do and I want the FREEDOM to do it my way. I want as many adjustable elements as I can get in Gnome.

Gnome 2.3.2 is a home run in my opinion. Gnome 3 is a double. Unity is three strikes and back to the dugnout.

Ubuntu will kill itself with that crap. The irony is they were really rocking up to that point.

I started with version 7.04 with them but I am SO done. No Mas! On to Mint or even Debian. At least until Ubuntu sobers up.

Microsoft is out of the question.I am linux. I am just changing flavors.

6074: Customization options need to be returned without having to resort to 3rd party utilities.

Stop assuming that everything is a god damned touchpad.

Seriously, if you cut out any more customization options it's essentially going to be a black box system in which you have no option to change how it looks, how it's organized, how you interact with it, or how it even sounds. How is that desirable? Leave making the overall interface idiot proof a worry for the distributions and focus on making an awesome and extensible desktop environment that lets idiots use big buttons and experienced people use whatever the hell they want. Most of the customization options already existed for pete's sake, so it's not like you don't know how to do X or Y or what a user interface to choose between the two would look like.

6075: More possibilities for customization, such as setting the font sizes and removing the accessibility icon without installing an extension. Give users the chance to use icons on the desktop again. When using GNOME with the mouse on a big screen, it requires a lot of mouse movements.

Some of the GNOME developers have come across as a bit harsh on mailing lists, LWN.net etc. when people have criticized the changes in GNOME 3. Please listen to your users, a lot of them actually do know what they want. Sadly, "The year of the Linux desktop" will probably never happen but there are still millions of users who need a good Linux desktop environment. Please concentrate more on the existing user base rather than trying to cater for total newbies who probably just use Windows anyway, because that's what they get when buying a new computer.

6076: Where did the trash/recycle bin go? There needs to be an easy way to recover deleted files. It doesn't need to be an icon on the desktop, but it needs to be intuitive. Currently I need to click the computer icon, and then click go->trash which is not intuitive. It might work as a right click option on a directory, or something else that launches a new Nautilus window with the trash open. "Restore Missing Files" seems like the most logical choice.

Where did the navigation icons in Nautilus go? If I want to go up a directory, there is no easy way to do it. The old Nautilus did it very well.

Many dialogs have no buttons and expect the user to click the window manager icons to close them. Those window manager icons are now gone, so many dialogs appear with no easy way to close them. I think the only way to do it is to right click on the title bar.

Be open to the opinions of others.

6077: More work on HIG so apps would be consistent
Not changing apps but polishing current ones
Stick with fast languages C,C++,Vala not Python, Mono or JavaScript

6078: I would change the stupid virtual desktop management. I want my proper desktops back.

If I can't have Compiz on Gnome 3.x then give me some of the features Compiz brought that made desktops a pleasure to use. Like wobbly windows. Sounds stupid I know. But they make the whole desktop feel more fluid and that creates a nicer more relaxed user experience. No wobbles makes the desktop feel rigid, boring and archaic. It's like being back at work. I don't want to feel like I'm at work on my home desktop.

Make customization easier. Themes need to be easy to install. Geeks don't even want to jump through the ridiculous hoops they need to go through just to change the windows decoration. There's no point to having a new desktop shell if it takes away easy to use configuration features that existed in the old version.

Stop trying to be KDE or OS X. Focus on the "NEEDS" of your core user base. Stop pretending your desktop environment is used across the entire spectrum of devices. It's not. I've never seen a smart phone running Gnome and we never will. Android is where smart phones are at. Gnome is simply too big and fat for a smart phone. So stop deluding yourselves!

6079: Make gnome 3 customisable.
Quick access to applications using in your face keyboard shortcut.

6080: - enable easy access to advanced settings for those who want them (easier than gconf-editor!)
- gnome-shell is useful for small-screen devices, but please continue to maintain something like a taskbar for those who have big screens!
- make single-click policy work consistently, and generally make it more Tablet(PC) friendly (i.e. selection boxes in nautilus, globally working long-press equals right-click)

who removed the "close window" buttons from the title-bar in gnome-shell and put them in a menu with just that one item?

That is only one example where gnome-shell manages to make a frequent task harder than it used to be (now two clicks instead of one).

6081: Go back to the simple organized and compact menus/sub-menus for accessing applications, places and system.

Put functionality back in.

Gnome 3 LOOKED cool in pics and sound-bite ads on your site, but it was an empty advertisement. Tried it for a few weeks and tried to get happy with it, but it is a terrible physical struggle to use, with lots of back and forth and hunting for things on the screen. In addition, functions I had gotten used to and depended on were gone. It is a very inefficient glitzy program that (pardon my language) sucks to use. I've never used that word before to describe a computer program or desktop. Well, maybe Windows Vista! I ended up wasting a lot of time trying to get things to work, and wasted more time having to fall back to my old Gnome 2.32. Not only did you do a poor job on developing this new desktop -- drastic departure of "the real" Gnome. I'll keep an eye on Gnome 3 but for now I am staying far away. I never liked KDE much, but it is a relief to use it after Gnome 3. So maybe I will have to use KDE.

6082: More customisable via GUI. A central "Control Panel" interface for settings/options (going into the menu for each setting is quite repetitive). A undo button on settings dialogues *since there is no apply button and changes just apply unexpectedly. Searchable menu (Start Button)

Be more open to suggestions from users.

6083: Scrap GNOME 3 and focus on 2.x

Scrap GNOME 3 and focus on 2.x

6084: Should be possible to configured every setting using text files (is ok to use gconf or whatever is called now, but should be easy to import/export to text files from it).

It should be easy to use other WM than metacity/mutter.

Cut the bloat, my one year laptop does feels fastter than my several years old desktop when it was bought.

#include 22

Listen to you users and don't forget the BSD world.

6085: 1. gnome shell
2. lack of settings, especially several important ones in power management and gnome shell
3. presence of mono, get rid of it, I don't really care about license issues but platform that is just copying and catching up to something else is defective by design
also gnome shell again, it should be mentioned more than once

stop ignoring users wishes in areas where they can be fulfilled easily

6086: 1 and most important Gnome 3 upper pannel color from black so soomething else.
2 that Gnome ppl would work more openly with Ubuntu ppl.
3 set the lower left corner to hide all windos by default

Oh well as i just said before working closer with Ubuntu guys wouldnt be bad. Because not acceprint innovation brought fraggmentation this time. And thats not the good part of the diversity in floss.

6087: Don't go linux-only!

6088: Make existing features as polished as possible before making radical changes. I am thoroughly comfortable and enjoy GNOME 2.3, it's part of what lured me off Windows.

6089: In the new gnome shell I would like better performance since it is a little sluggish on my netbook

6090: 1) Make the change gradual (3.0 was TOO radical)
2) Support the WIMP model
3) Don't get too cute

Ever since I went from DOS to Win 3.1, I have been exposed to the WIMP setup. Closing/minimizing/restoring/maximizing is easy and logical. I leave a few documents on the desktop, have my shortcuts on the bar, a few icons in the notification area, basically a standard 2.x setup works and doesn't require a Ph.D. to figure out.

I use my computers for both work and leisure. If your changes to the DE are TOO radical, you are forcing the user to re-learn how to use his computer. That cuts down on the productivity, makes "play" less fun and forces some of us to seek out distros that are still on Gnome 2.x. Because of that, we stop using easy to learn, no-hassle distros that we have used in the past in order to attract m$ refugees to the FLOSS community.

6091: Better support for mac style global menu bar.

More "structure" in the "page of application" by default. (And stop inventing new names for trivial things)

Drop Evolution and replace it with sth. more integrated with other solutions (Google, syncing...) Same is true for KDE (KMail) but akonadi seems beside all problems at least a conceptual better approach.

"If it's not broken, don't fix it".

It's always hard work on a lot of details to make a good desktop environment. A radical change of paradigms may be more fun to work on, but without all the nasty and boring polishing you'll always end up with something half-baked, no matter how good the original idea was.

And ... if the polishing reveals weaknesses of the concept, be brave enough to dismiss the concept: It's the sum of a a lot details that makes a everyday desktop experience, not a brilliant but unusable concept.

6092: Only screensaver.

6093: * get back the desktop like interface... I'm using desktop, not a tabled %$#^%$#%
* configurability, customizability
* integration

I don't think anything I say matters... sigh!

6094: suspend, hibernation - behaviour is catastrophic with unpredictable results
improve testing/releasing phase - e.g. why some basic components consume 100% CPU?
have scalability concept: 1) default for people which want just use as is (few simple options), 2) advanced (wide set of modification - like KDE) and 3) geek - on configuration files based modification - only tips which files are related

Release the only fully functional and tested products, please. If they are experimental, this information should appear in the window title, if exist, and in an easily available summary of experimental features/parts/SW in my installed OS (independent of the distributions ;-))

6095: Get back the user experience on GNOME2 with modern GNOME3 backends

Unfortunately GNOME3 is far from success in the users' point of view - don't understand why it has gone off course recently.

6096: The shell should have a tiling mode, manually moving windows to the "right" place is not very user-friendly.

I do want my virtual desktops not just linear.

An empathy irc-client to use towards a quassel-core

Don't over simplify. Having clear choises is good though. Maybe a compromise between customizeability and ease-of-use could be achieved via a litte slider with the following steps "Easy - Normal - Advanced", so that people who just use it get it simple and clean, and those who want can configure whatever the like.

6097: Give Minimize button back. Sometime an app asks for something, but this is not part of the app its self. The app will also not respond until the question asked is answered. Only by minimizing I can find that "lost" question window belongig to this app.
I use Windows for playing games and usually shutdown or restart the computer. Don't make suspend default. I really had to google for the "alt" button trick. I like the gnome 2.x way, providing both alternatives. Some people really like to switch power off, when they are nut using their pc.
I miss self created application launchers, there is no intuitive way to create these.

On Ubuntu 11.10 many applications appears twice or even more times when searching for them. Usually one version has a lower resolution icon. That is really confusing.
The top bar is really a waste of space. I would like to be able to put some more information or applets on it.

6098: like in suggestions:
1. facilitate custumization (e.g. over shell extensions)
2. integrate non-gnome-apps (like thunderbird) better with the gnome-environment (in the example: connect it to the contacts app), create better qt-gtk-themes
3. tidy up system center, integrate options of gnome tweak tool

Gnome Shell is nice, but pls add (in a "gnome3-way") missing features.

Suggestions:
* customization could be done completely over extensions. Create a way (maybe in the system center) to manage (search, install, aktivate, deaktivate) then. Pack some "standard"-stuff like the indicators (availability, sound, ...) in extensions, so that they can be deactivated (I don't need the availability-icon, like prob. 90% of the Gnome users)
* try to set standards not only for the gnome world. work together with freedesktop. e.g. try to establish a standard how to handle contacts. if one could establish a "contacts-daemon/api" supported by Gnome, KDE and maybe even Mac oder Windows many more applications would use the functionality!
* try to make non-gnome/gtk-programs better within gnome! create better qt-gtk-themes. make common applications like pidgin, thunderbird, firefox better integrate with the gnome-features (calendar in gnome-shell, contacts app, etc.).
* find a faster way to search and open programs which name you don't know. this was much easier in gnome2 (programs -> category -> program). I don't think a usual computer user would easily find e.g. a program to burn cds.
* work on the system center. why is an option "wacom tablet" shown to me, even though i don't have a wacom tablet connected to the pc. make the options from the gnome tweak tool available in the sys-center. why is there in german language something like "screen" and "screens"?
* don't confine users. e.g. why can't i change the window size of the system center?
* make the program symbols and the window bar (in the standard theme) smaller (or custimizable), both are ridiculously large!

All in all: Try to hide complexity, not to remove it. Aim at "normal users" as well as power users.
Keep up the good work.

6099: make memory footprint smaller,
get rid of not needed dependencies (CORBA lib, multiple xml parsers, etc..),
try to not add features, but clean it up the complexity.

good work, well done!

6100: * free up screen real-estate by allowing the top bar to auto hide.
* sometimes when a window is maximized, a popup is very intrusive because it covers the bottom of the screen, preventing you from clicking into the bottom of your active window.
* Also because of borderless firefox, this is also somewhat annoying.

I love the ability to do more without the mouse, but still take advantage of a graphical environment. I.e. gnome shells searching facility for applications and files.