What People Are Saying About GNOME [Part 6]
6301: The ability to customize the Gnome Shell. Also allowing the use of Compiz again. And cut down the memory footprint.
I would change the coding style in your API examples. They are hard to read.
6302: speed up the menus and make them more customisable.
I may switch to Gnome3 whene you allow me to customise it to my wishes, i.e. make it look more like Gnome2, Mint 12 should be interesting but otherwise I'll be switching to LXDE or XFCE.
6303: 1) Allow animations to be turned off
2) Alt-tab should not switch between applications across desktops
3) Include an "edit source" button in every application
Focus on the applications that run under GNOME, not just the environment. There are many applications that are sub-par:
1) Pitivi (barely usable -- video today is a massive
2) Evince (e.g. has a maximum zoom level)
3) Gnome keyring does not integrate well with Firefox
4) Evolution needs a lot more attention
5) Gstreamer's documentation is an impediment to doing exciting things with it
6) f-spot/that-other-photo-management-software -- slow, buggy, and difficult to sync images with other machines, flickr, etc.
Some other features missing:
1) Synchronisation with a portable media player is non-existent in rhythmbox
There are applications that are completely missing too:
1) 3D CAD
Crucially: don't burn the roots that you are growing from.
6304: 1. list mode selection should not be clickable on the empty space. it's really hard to deselect everything when the window is full of listed items. 2. drop-down menus after right-click with mouse should be offset a few pixels so that a second right-click (double-tap) does not automatically also click the first item in the drop-down. 3. allow themes, even if only in a basic way like changing colours and fonts.
keep up the amazing work. i've always enjoyed using GNOME, though sometimes the application churn within the suite is a pain since i have to relearn apps with each release.
6305: 1. Make the activities application search have some sort of cache.
2. Make gnome shell much more light weight.
3. Make gnome shell customizable by default.
Please make gnome shell much more light weight, and easier to customize.
6306: Workspaces- as it stands they are nowhere near as powerful as in Gnome 2.x. I'd graft the fixed grid switcher onto 3.x or at the very least create some mechanism for making the first N spaces invulnerable. Would have written something for this myself but I doubt the Gnome team would be interested (it has already been shot down once).
Effects- some people like having their desktop swoosh around. Some people like having things happen instantly. By changing some user-hidden settings the latter can be achieved but including a control window for this sort of thing would be nice.
6307: Gnome2 forever! Wait I guess that means I will be switching too Mate
Gnome3 sucks
6308: That the "consistency of user experience" seems to result continually in features that I depend on getting "deprecated" (my main examples being GDM and "focus follows mouse"). Yes I can get them back after learning a new secret handshake that changes every time the version number does but that is kind of getting old too.
Make the second monitor in a dual monitor setup useful again.
I don't have a third. It sucks having to take such a negative stance about something I felt so good about for so long...
I've loved Gnome for years and I appreciate the efforts of its developers, in fact I used gtk to build control interfaces for our research group's software in 1999-2002. I kind of regret that these days -- things have changed so much and I am not paid to go back to rewrite all the things that don't "just work" anymore. And now we're "changing paradigms again" but after six months of using Gnome3 I can't put my finger on why I'm supposed to be more productive. My personal observation is that I click around a lot more to do things that used to be very economical on the actions required.
6309: Add back applications menu, add back task bar (or something comparable to OS X's tray), allow access to the shut down button without using the keyboard and without forcing the user to first logout.
GNOME 3 needs to be optimized for mouse use. Switching between windows (both visible and minimized windows) should be easy using just the mouse. Launching an application should require less scrolling and mouse movement, there should be application menus or something to make it easier to look through the applications without taking up so much screen real estate.
In short, it needs to go back to being somewhat more like GNOME 2. I like some of the neat features and flair that were added to GNOME 3, but the ways GNOME 3 provides for launching applications and navigating windows are confusing, unintuitive, and require far too much mousing.
6310: Simple;
1) Same degree of functionality
2) Same degree of customization as 2.6.x.
3) Aesthetically, the top of the windows look like shit.
Guys,
Thanks for all the work over the years; I've always been a Gnome guy and Unity I utterly abhor. KDE is too Windoze-like for me, Gnome + Compiz has made things smooth for a long time - then you switched it up and *took away* features. Huh? Dev 101 people!!!!! Add yes, take away NO; unless you're crApple and I wouldn't use your product anyway. Please take advantage of the massive onslaught of bad will coming about due to Unity and be our DE 'Savior'. This is simply too good a chance to pass up!
Peter
6311: 1. Stop using OpenGL in Totem, Cheese, Empathy...
2. Focus on GNOME Panel and Metacity development
3. Drop GNOME Shell
GNOME Panel and Metacity provide a simple and good desktop environment, please keep maintaining them.
6312: Have a built in settings pane in the control panel so I don't have to install gnome tweak tool. Make more settings configurable.
6313: Backwards compatible:
I'm using compiz+panels+effects. Why should I use my way of working because somebody else thinks unity/dash is the way to go? A GUI should adopt to users, not the other way around.
6314: "We know best" attitude of development team, which opposed extensions.
"We must appeal to Apple users" attitude of development team, who don't apparently care what long-time users think.
Crap application-based documentation. Bring back PDFs, man pages, and HTML-formatted docs. The current documentation stinks.
I wanted to patch evince, but when I saw what a giant load of source (all of Gnome!) I had to download in order to compile evince only, I gave up.
6315: Please put the desktop switcher and then Activity Hotspot in the same place, so I don't have to move all the way to the left first, and then all the way to the right, just to switch between desktops.
Don't be put off by all the people wanting Gnome 2 back. It's not 1997 anymore.
6316: just better support for Ubuntu..please
Please make it work flawlessly with Ubuntu,as i hate Unity,it treat me like i am stupid.
I dont hate unity ,just i think desktop&laptop is not place for it,at all.
6317: Stop having a one track mind.
Keep Gnome Fallback for us "shell/unity refuseniks".
If it's not broke don't fix it.
6318: - Default spacing size, I think lot of space is wasted between icons, text, buttons...
- Ability to set network profiles (work + proxy, home...)
- Better integration with LibreOffice
6319: Better hardware acceleration
Mutter needs to be more efficient...things lag after having more than 5 windows open on a single desktop
Great job with antialiasing window corners!
6320: maintanence of fallback.
maintanence of fallback.
maintanence of fallback.
Ongoing and parallel maintanence of fallback mode. (not a refusenik- just feel that fallback meets my needs and workflow. I have tried -several months- both pure Gnome 3 and Ubuntu's Unity and found neither intuitive nor useful.
6321: 1) Create an enterprise grade native GNOME office suite. Applications like Abiword and Gnumeric are not up to the task and a decent presentation tool is non-existent. LibreOffice is bloated, old-fashioned and unintuitive. Its GUI does not fit in the GNOME HIG and they have their own cross-platform GUI plans which do not favor GNOME, and the suite is in no way ready for the cloud era.
2) Get rid of Evolution and create separate message, contact, calendar and task-management applications. Integration wit EDS is fine, but give me separate windows! (like on the Mac). Make sure cloud & social media is fully integrated into the workflow! Why not mix e-mail, traditional instant messaging and social media chat? The new contact app is a good start.
3) Add customization options to the configuration panel for the GNOME Shell. Tweak Tool is not user-friendly. Provide customization options too (like always displaying the left quick-launch bar, disabling multiple workplaces feature, etc.). Also make it easy to switch themes, manage extensions and change fonts settings.
Talking about themes: the difference between shell theme, window theme and GTK+ theme is very confusing for novice users. Would it be possible to move towards "full desktop" themes that combine all three for a consistent look?
You guys are doing a great job with the new Shell. I would love to see GNOME make it on embedded devices (TV's, set top boxes, media players), netbooks, laptops, desktops and smartphones! The GNOME Shell has the potential to work on all these devices, including very small screens.
6322: I am a very satisfied user of Gnome2. The change brought with Gnome3 is unwelcome to me. If I wanted a tablet experience, I'd buy myself one.
6323: I'd install MATE.
I'd install XFCE.
I'd install KDE.
Then I'd decide on which one I'll switch to when Gnome 2 is no longer an option for me.
My desktop and laptop are not touchscreen tablets, and I won't install any DE made by people who don't understand this.
6324: Default icon set
Shutdown button always visible without having to hold ALT button (GNOME 3.X)
6325: more settings available
less tablet/netbook like interface (sucks on desktop)
6326: Remove limitation of Desktop Icon Text affecting its placement
Edit the "Applications Places System" Panel Items
Remember Window Placement and Size over program incantations
Good luck with Gnome3. Will switch to it once I have no other choice.
6327: 1. Add right-click customization for panel.
2. Improve "System Settings" (support for configuring multiple mice, high DPS mice, multiple screens (chose primary one), etc).
3. Make it easier to switch themes.
- In a multiscreen-setup, make sure that at least 1 screen is always active on startup. (For instance, I might have configured an external screen as primary, and turned off the laptop screen. I now cannot start w/o external, because laptop screen will be turned off)
Gnome 3 is AWESOME. Good job!
6328: 1. Find a better implementation of notifications - the 3.0 way (in the bottom) doesn't seem right to me. Actual notifications is bearable (but still "not right"), but when applications misuse the notification area for quick-access features and the like, it is totally misplaced.
2. A sleeker mail client with a loosely integrated (or maybe separate) calendar. I feel like Evolution does a lot of stuff, and is very complicated. Google's GMail does easy mail, yet is effective. However, I like a mail client (and calendar) to be integrated in my desktop.
3. Week numbers in desktop calendar. Maybe I just need to figure this out. But I hate having to start up Evolution to check week numbers (and I simply can't internalise them!).
6329: 1/ Gimme back the speed of Gnome 2
2/ Gimme back applets
3/ More customization
Gnome 3 is full of good ideas (I like a lot the dynamic virtual desktops creation), but I don't use latest generation of computers, and Gnome 3 turned them into a sluggish any-flavour-of-windows-after-3-months-of-usage machine !!
6330: - Finding a way to accommodates more advance options without sacrificing ease of use (ex. an expert mode?).
- Bring back the System monitor applet in gnome3.
- Permits to come back to the Gnome 2.x work-flow within Gnome 3 (as an option)
Gnome 2.x was very close to be the best desktop environment for me. I can't stand Gnome 3 and I does not seems to the the only one.
The gnome team does not seems to listen enough its user and this gives a very unpleasant feeling, my reaction would be to run away and find something similar to what I liked in gnome2.
I hope to be able to configure a working environment that look like Gnome2 in the following version of Gnome3 (application menu, Window list in a panel, pre-installed and easy to enable widgets for the panels, ...) and I hope the Gnome project give less the impression to run alone and to ignore its user base. Gnome is the fist Linux desktop environment because of its users, pissing them off would lead to no good for the project.
6331: i would bring back the gdm configuration program, the gui for dconf, and i would improve the logging of errors.
the users does matter, listen to them. thank you.
6332: Please, minimize botton by default
Some people has spend too much time in "conventional" desktops. Why Gnome3 can not give the option of a more "traditional" desktop?
6333: Bring back the menu.
Bring back the menu.
Bring back the menu.
I switched to Gnome Shell to get away from Unity, and I find it just as cumbersome to use. It gets in the way of me getting work done. I hate it and I've begun using Xfce instead.
6334: -get all the gedit plugins ported to gnome3
-tighten up the space used in dialogues -- i find too many require scrolling even though my screen is 1280x800
6335: 1. Bring back options. Linux users prefer to set up their desktop the way they like it, not the way the window system forces them to accept their own computers.
2. Realise that GNOME is mostly run on a desktop PC and not on a mobile unit. This means that GNOME should focus on a desktop paradigm (right click, for one).
3. For the love of all that is holy, put the minimise and close buttons back on the windows.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
6336: In GNOME 3, some of the control panel applets in System Settings don't offer a full set of options, and it is necessary to manually launch the "older" applet that used to be in GNOME 2. For example, printer configuration, network configuration.
6337: Make the gnome-panel configurable, so I don't have to use the fall-back to add some applet to the gnome-panel! I still don't understand why I can't right-click on it or something.
Make the gnome-desktop configurable, I couldn't even change the background or add some icons to the thing.
Put a big documentation icon on the desktop. Not easy to find out what's new and how to configure the simple new things.
Don't throw away the fallback! Without the fallback I would be back to icewm/kde/not-gnome since I couldn't figure out how to change anything in gnome3. Maybe I don't "get" the gnome3-philosophy, but I think that a user ought to be able to change settings when he wants!
6338: 1. Add option to customize top bar
2. Give the option to Alt+Tab through ALL open windows, don't group them
3. Some form of installed applications menu to navigate through
4. More configuration options
Excellent job, keep up the good work. Please don't make changes just for the sake of making changes. Sometimes things are OK the way they are.
6339: Make GNOME-shell more flexible and easier to change the behaviour of.
6340: 1. make it more user-friendly WITHOUT removing settings like "what should happen when you close the laptop?"
2. the standard programs GNOME uses should be changed; there are many examples where a KDE tool can do better work than the tool GNOME uses normally. Replace gparted with the KDE partition manager, for example.
3. try to make GNOME as good as KDE. Otherwise people will use KDE instead of GNOME (like me).
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6341: #1 Gnome 3 should bring back the windows key ZOOM feature of gnome 2, that is why I refuse to upgrade some of my host to gnome3 . I am thinking of installing debian just so I can stay with gnome2x.
#2 when I hit the xterm , bring up a new xterm not go back to the old xterm , or have a way that I do not need hit mouse button 2 to bring up a new term.
I do think that gnome 3 is the lesser evil in the ubuntu 11.10+ stack. The gnome shell seem to be very slow on fedora 15 on an amd e-350 net book with all the extensions loaded when I come back from suspend or hibernate , aka seems like 5 min. Ubuntu 11.10 gnome 3 is a down grade from fedora 15 gnome as far as stock extensions etc in the core distro.
6342: Gnome panel for my Gnome3. I really miss my top and bottom panels :-(
Rethink the 3.x series.
6343: Go back to gnome 2
more settings in gnome 3
allow me to disable the screensaver and monitor power off features
gnome 3 was a mistake. cut your losses. go back.
6344: throw out gnome 3 and start again.
can't stand unity or gnome 3, using classic was the only way to make the machine usable..
6345: Panel applets, primarily the weather applet
Configuration of panel (remove accessibility and bluetooth)
Return screensaver - while obsolete technically, they are useful asthetically. The screensaver on our machine in the kitchen (gnome 2) acts as a digital picture frame when not in use, for example.
Keep up the good work.
6346: 1 Reduce the number of mouse gestures needed to open programs, or manage destops.
2 Make customization easier. Theme switching seems to be an extension product, not part of the core.
3 Reduce window border sizes in the default theme.
1 Make it easier for advanced users to configure the desktop
2 Document Vala better!
3 Break Gnome more explicitly into core and extended segments. Some users (like me!) want minimal setups. I hate installing software I don't need/use.
4 Explicity remove any mono bits from the core gnome set. Mono can be an option, but it should be very clearly segregated from the gnome project base.
6347: 1) More keyboard friendly
Being a console user, I'd like easier ways to find stuff typing, for example something like bash expansion when typing a location on Nautilus.
2) Less complicated and faster windows switching when multiple windows opened.
I've also some trouble when having several windows opened for the same application, like the browser, Pidgin chat windows or even the console itself. That's the only thing I miss from the Gnome 2 Bar.
3) Easier window resize/controls
It would be nice to have an easy way to tile side-by-side some of the openned windows. (Remember OS/2 and Windows 3.x "tile" and "cascade"?). I feel that snapping is a bit complicated. Some keyboard controls would be nice here.
Just one comment: I'm always switching from Gnome to Unity and vice-versa, but in general I prefer Gnome but when I don't have enough time to thing about the way I'm doing things I login to Unity. This means that for me Unity seens more natural.
6348: 1. Allow me to use my Gnome 2 features in Gnome 3.
2. Allow me to use my Gnome 2 features in Gnome 3.
3. Allow me to use my Gnome 2 features in Gnome 3.
Please allow me to use my Gnome 2 features in Gnome 3.
P.S. Gnome 3 sucks. Unity Sucks more!
6349: Fill left/right half of screen or maximize window using simple key combos like the life-changing app "SizeUp!" on Mac OS X!
Have quicklook funtionality built in! (a la sushi or gloobus-preview)
Keep up the good work! And please let yourselves inspire by the Mac OS X desktop where appropriate so we can have an open alternative to their closed but significantly better functioning and more polished desktop environment.
6350: Window Notifications
3D accelleration requirement
Applet availability
6351: Give me back control of the interface! (change focus rules, substitute WM, etc...)
Document! Docs always seem to be one to two version behind.
Don't assume that all users are/should be alike!
Don't ruin a good thing by thinking you know it all.
6352: more control over customisation
I find the current notification system annoying
6353: Nautilus (sometimes it is slow)
Empathy (I still use Pidgin)
No. I am still using Gnome 2.x, and I know that Gnome 3.x is the new way.
I have learned to love Gnome 2.x and I hope the same will occur with Gnome 3.x. But I will wait until 2013 to make the move.
6354: Integrate Compiz and allow users the benefit of the eye candy.
Allow multiple terminal sessions to be open without the difficulty of finding them.
Move back to a horizontal workspace idiom.
Don't tell me what I should be working like, ask me how I'd like to work.
6355: #1 Gnome 3 should bring back the windows key ZOOM feature of gnome 2, that is why I refuse to upgrade some of my host to gnome3 . I am thinking of installing debian just so I can stay with gnome2x.
#2 when I hit the xterm , bring up a new xterm not go back to the old xterm , or have a way that I do not need hit mouse button 2 to bring up a new term.
I do think that gnome 3 is the lesser evil in the ubuntu 11.10+ stack. The gnome shell seem to be very slow on fedora 15 on an amd e-350 net book with all the extensions loaded when I come back from suspend or hibernate , aka seems like 5 min. Ubuntu 11.10 gnome 3 is a down grade from fedora 15 gnome as far as stock extensions etc in the core distro.
6356: * Better integration of GNOME keyring (eg. fingerprint login unlocks keyring)
* Split Evolution to separate Mail, Calendar, Tasks applications
* Different themes for tablet and desktop (most GNOME apps are not designed for touch devices)
6357: drop all support for gnome 2 so everything is up to date.
6358: Better top bar - fast access icons, performance monitor, desktop switching, ...
6359: - Make it easy to find and install plugins
- Default to Power off on desktop (instead of sleep mode)
Good work!
6360: I want :
- an 2.32-style application menu and indicators
- a list of currently-opened windows
- the right to configure my desktop ! Free software means freeing users!
Gnome 3 is currently a catastrophe on my hardware and also in terms of human-friendliness. Let it be clear: I have no problem with the Gnome team changing way things work, and for instance Gnome 2 was a huge improvement over older versions. But (1) as a computer scientist, I think it is OK to rely on people's feedback but it is not serious work to force people to switch to a largely-unfinished desktop. (2) People should be allowed to have a choice w.r.t how they want to configure their desktop: not necessarily because they are conservative but because there are sometimes unforeseen reasons to do so (be it accessibility reasons, or hardware problems: e.g my 3D drivers are buggy, my step-parent's screen is damaged...). (3) Finally, it takes *much* more time to get things done with Gnome 3.2 than with 2.32. This whole mix between OSX and tablet-style interaction is acceptable on a tablet for simple tasks but it is not adapted to serious work like long document typing, programming, etc., that is all these keyboard- and mouse-based interactions that are, perhaps, so "XXth century" but quite necessary, yet, for most users.
So I am now switching to XFCE that I don't really like as much as Gnome 2.32 but at least I can focus on my real work.
6361: gnome3 looks nice (better than unity), but it is totally unusable. Half baked effort, with a big functional regression. Unity is not perfect at all, but works better for me at this. Both don't work at all over an NX line. I hope the Mint effort works better.
6362: 1) Revert to Gnome2 model - the best desktop ever produced.
2) Allow complete customization of menu bar, including applets.
3) Remove drag-to-top-maximizes, bring back dropdown on menubar, incorporate Compiz (as it worked on Gnome2).
Gnome 3 seems to be for phones or touchscreens, not for power users. Everything takes longer to do and takes more screen real-estate, as compared to Gnome2. I'm currently converting to Xfce after attempting to work with Gnome3 for about 6 months. I appreciate Gnome2 more than ever at this point, and Xfce seems to be the best solution for me now. The move from Gnome2 to Gnome3 is a move from the best desktop ever to one of the worst.
6363: 1) make extensions easily managed
2) make it more customizable (somehow related with the 1st thing)
3) nothing else really, it is a great Desktop!
6364: Allow the complete feature set of GNOME 2.x on GNOME shell.
Keep multi-monitor use case in mind when developing GNOME shell.
Quit adding excessive padding around everything.
6365: 1. Easily-packaged profile which can be synced with cloud or packaged as a file so that settings can be transferred from computer to computer
2. Make the stupid evolution icon go away in status screen
3. My panel additions never stay in the order I put them in
6366: 1) Keep the interface of 2.3 alive as an option in the updated versions of GNOME
2) More controls
3) Lighter on the memory, please
6367: 1. Alt+Tab switch windows not tasks.
2. Smaller window title bars.
3. In the login menu there should be "power off" and "hibernate" in addition to "log off" and "suspend".
6368: 1 - revert back to Gnome2
2 - revert back to Gnome2
3 - revert back to Gnome2
Revert back to Gnome2 - Gnome3 is awful. You have fucked up in a major way. Just changing things is not necessarily progress. People have to relearn when you fuck with their environment. The question is, is it necessary learning or just monkey-fuck learning. These are the kind of arbitrary shit UI changes that pissed me off about windows.
6369: Go back to 2.x!
I hate Unity!
6370: Eliminate space waste, specially on Nautilus
Better font rendering
file search on activities screen (not only recently used files, but all files on computer)
Just keep up the good work
6371: 1. Have 'Run a program on the Applications menu "as Administrator"' option.
2. Nautilus "Open in Terminal" enabled by defualt.
3. Mouse settings (Sensitivity, acceleration), that actually work.
6372: More features in Nautilus to make it more (graphics) production friendly, like a tab with file info and preview; size of images and movies, length of movies etc.
Keep it fast and stable. Do not dumb it down.
6373: Reintroduce a lot of configuration from Gnome 2.32
Build a Debian based live cd to test the last version of Gnome before release it and not after.
6374: Fix the file open/select dialogue so that it works like KDE's
See bigger thumbnails of images in file dialogues
Continue support for a fully featured 'traditional' Gnome 2-like desktop ...
Hard for me to answer the questions re. user satisfaction. I am a very contented user of Gnome 2.32. From what I have seen of Gnome 3, it will be of no use to me at all. I use a workstation with a large screen; I cannot help having numerous apps and windows open at any one time. These are much more cumbersome to manage in Gnome Shell.
I use Linux Mint and I applaud their decision to keep on with Gnome 2.x for the time being. When they stop, I shall move to XFCE and try to get it to emulate Gnome 2 as closely as I can.
6375: quit options to configure is a nonsense
bring option to visualizate messaging tray (miss notifications isn't productive)
ability to put custom applications in the dash easier
stop thinking "productive studies" is the best fot all the people.
sure they are for most but the rest want the options to change enviroment to our taste, although they are semi-hidden.
6376: - Give us a task-centric, not an application-centric desktop.
- Allow a GNOME-2-style mode/desktop.
- Give us a task-centric, not an application-centric desktop.
- Allow a GNOME-2-style mode/desktop.
6377: Add more customization options, bring the classic interface elements back.
Please bring the classic GNOME 2.x interfaces back, they could be optional, disabled by default.
6378: Bring back the manu's and taskbar way of doing things. Its what people want and need. we aren't using small phones or tablets. Half the time I cant remember the name of the app I want but I know where it is. I have used Gnome for over a decade, I tried KDE and enlightenment but stuck to Gnome. After using Gnome 3 for two weeks as I was determined t try it, i'm an Xfce user.
Please Listen to the people the mac look doesnt work
6379: 1. make gnome 3 not exist
2. make gimp have a single-window mode that includes the toolbox and layers
3. make gconf more like fstab and less like /dev/random (flat files and plain text are the best method of configuring!)
Do try and listen to these complaints from the community, you seem to make it worse trying to "fix" what largely isn't broken.
6380: Desktop environment for desktops - please! New interface metaphors which don't help power users or new users - are a double fail. My parents barely grasped the change from Windows XP to Windows 7. Linus wasn't impressed either... :-( Most folk won't be running Gnome 3 on a tablet - why would they if they can use Android? So please bring the Desktop back!
If only the project had looked at the best community/add-on content for Gnome 2.3.xx. Avant-Window-Navigator, GnoMenu, Emerald. Gnome 3.x could have been something great. Instead it is a failure.
Also the GTK 2.xx libraries were hideous to work with. No IDE, no error checking, etc. As result everyone writes there apps in Python - rather than C/C++. Just hope the Gnome 3.xx SDK is more user friendly!
6381: Keep up the great work. Thanks.
6382: sadly, GNOME 3.x became "Barbie" friendly. Using two monitor setup, sometimes working with as many as 28 open windows from 3-4 applications arranged on MY WAY over 4 desktops.
Probably switching back to KDE in future.
6383: I would like that notifications would be more persistent.
The dialog mode is somewhat broken, some applications expect that dialogs show the [x] button on the window manager. The new dialog that appears from the titlebar (a la macosx) don't have a close button, leaving no option but to use "alt-F4" to close the window. I would keep the [x] on dialogs and create a new type of dialog that don't have the close button.
A system monitor would not be bad.
6384: Add a Dock/Launcher
Make it for newbies and professionals
Make it on Phones like Ubuntu unity is going too.
I like Nautilus 3.2 and I like Gnome 3 not Gnome shell.
6385: make gnome shell optional
6386: Reduce the size of the window borders and buttons.
Add back the minimize button by default.
Include more configuration options.
Some programs like Evolution are too big for netbooks screens, yet you cannot resize them.
6387: -May be better(very very far away now) power management (something like jupiter applet?)
-More personalization, please...my dream is to be able to use compiz in gnome3, or may be mutter must replace it truly.
There were lots of plugins(not the cube, i don't mind, virtual desktops are perfect in gnome3) that were very useful.
-Lighter... after an hour it takes something like 450mb of ram(always less than 700mb of kde4.7) with geany and a music player...and at bootup is quite slow,well gdm is very slow...something like 15 sec to show up, then desktop loading is faster than gnome2, with about 10 sec.
I'm looking forward to see your new release, gnome 3.4 with other fixes and improvements...anyway, good work guys!I know you're doing your best!
6388: at least basic 3d graphics support for nvidia cards by default
sound recorder required
nautilus is slow in gnome
keep up the gr8 work.
6389: 1. A better email client. Evolution is the most central GNOME application but it does not feel like a GNOME app, it tries to imitate MSOutlook2k. Thunderbird is monolithic but Evolution much more so.
2. A good calendar application. Google calendar in dedicated window and some elements of OpenedHand Dates would be good sources of inspiration.
3. Gnome-system-monitor use an inexcusable amount of CPU to render those graphs.
Be less harsh and judgmental in interactions. Consider a code of conduct. Some current contributors might not like it, but the ones who would like it are not yet contributors.
I love the idea of "a tool for a task" and accessible usability. Accessible usability often manifests itself as "simple" user interfaces, but "simple" is neither the goal or a direct means to accessibility.
6390: 1 improve UI - better visual feedback, fix bottom notification concept, more feedback i.e. icon changes to indicate connection to VPN
2 better appearance - less clunky and out-dated look, even nicest gnome themes have windows 98 feel. widgets and layout are often cluttered or ugly, osx is far superior visually. How about antialiased lines in themes?
3 innovate in clever ways - don't emulate, don't do something "different" without having good reason. There's a reason expose in mac osx isn't the default way of switching windows or bringing up the panel.
Keep pushing boundaries, but do so in ways that will excite people and make them energized.
6391: 1. Allow people to add icons. Otherwise the desktop is a wasted space.
2. The mode of using sucks. Why can't I minimize? Why do I have to go to a corner?
3. Better fonts are badly needed.
I'm switching to KDE, so not really. Let them do what they think is better for them - even if that means user hate.
6392: 1) Better support for multi-monitor-setup. The combination with virtual desktops is very confusing now.
2) Hit the windows-key and type icew<enter> for starting iceweasel is nice, but just starting it on the dash (without mouse) should be easier than <ctrl><alt><tab> <right>. Why not change the focus directly to the dash if i enter not a word, but press (for example) just <down>?
3) More tiling options, for example four or eight Terminals on one screen (similar to the overview mode).
You did and you do a wonderful job, and imho Gnome 3.0 is far better than 2.0. Love to see 3.2, and afair in the release notes for 3.2, you take critic very serious and change the things for better. Thank you very much for all the work!
6393: Give back the ability to change the panel.
Restore the desktop computing metaphor; at least as an option!
I want Gnome 2 back!
6394: Decrease Dependencies
Streamline Configuration
Reduce Feature Bloat
6395: 1. Options. Simplifying the UI is ok, but don't remove all the options!
2. Configuration tools. Gief!
3. Changing everything without giving people any information on what's happening, like focus etc?
Stop thinking the users are dumb. Seriously... STOP. Making the UI easier is ok, but totally removing options is simply idiotic!
6396: Only 1 thing for now: support for >2 monitors.
There are definitely things I don't like about the workspace and window management features in GNOME 3, but I think I can get used to most of it (and besides, people can probably fix a lot of it with extensions). No matter how good a DE is, though, I'm not going to use it if I can't use my 3rd monitor (via separate X sessions).
I answered the questions above as if I was using GNOME 3, but really I worked with it for about 1 day and then switched to XFCE when I realized that the 3rd monitor on my desktop computer just wasn't going to work. On my laptop, I froze the version to 2.30.
While running separate X sessions:
gnome-shell --replace
Window manager warning: Log level 8: gtk_style_context_get: assertion
`priv->widget_path != NULL' failed
Segmentation fault
6397: Searchable menus, searchable menus, terminal icon in favorites by default. Did I mention searchable menus (Thank you gnome 3).
I know you like to make things really dumbed down for most users but if you could create a good gui tool for the people who like having everything absolutely configurable like kde 3 did that would be awesome. Than I think you would have the perfect gui. Dumbed down enough for newbies and able to be configured (through an extra app) for the techies. Everybody is happy, everybody wins.
6398: where is sound recorder
autohide top menu
lose the shiny black theme change it to nonshiny black theme
better network management tools
better support for nvidia cards.
lose shiny black theme change it to non shiny
6399: Make it easier to manage workspace. Make sound work properly - particularly with VMware - and not be so complicated as having controls for ALSA, and PulseAudio.
Build documentation is poor and trying to work through issues to make it work on Slackware means this is an impediment. Also, most users of 3.x seem p*ssed off. Doesn't encourage me to move forward. I like 2.x in terms of it allows me to work with the desktop as a power user.
6400: 1) Allow disabling of screen compositing, so I can use gnome 3.x when my netbook (Dell Mini10v) is plugged into an external monitor.
2) Create an easier (graphical) mechanism by which favorite applications and locations can be added to the dock. Also, a dock preferences panel would be useful.
3) Restore system-config-printer to gnome 3.x branch. The current printer administration tool does not fully function with network printers
I've been using gnome 3 for a while now, and appreciate several of its improvements over gnome 2, including the more unified user interface. However, I miss the configurability that gnome2 offered (for example, in system-config-printer versus the new printer administration tool, gnome-screensaver, having "suspend" and "hibernate" offered as options in the session menu without having to install a shell extension to do so, et c).
I also miss minimize/maximize buttons.