What People Are Saying About GNOME [Part 6]

5201: Please support GNOME 2.x too

5202: The multi-monitor workspace switching. It doesn't suit my workflow at all. Managing windows between workspaces was also difficult, and lack of customisation was disappointing.

Listen to the users. Respond to peoples needs.

5203: 1. The fonts should be smaller or at least easily adjustable (don't know if they are now)
2. The Dialogs, Windows etc. should not fill that much empty space (looks cleaner and smarter if they don't)
3. The whole interface should follow workflow/usability guidelines even more (everything should be out of sight if not needed, but easily accessible nevertheless (the super-key "show me my apps and immediately let me search through them" is a good example of that, you should take this a step further and look what gnome-do or spotlight (OS X) still do better in workflow-context, e.g. plugin-API for quick context-related actions)

5204: 1) An option to make the application dock visible not only in the overview
2) A clear way to make keyboard shortcuts, and not only for launching, but for WM actions, Openbox style.
3) The ability to get rid of Pulseaudio (seriously)

5205: 1. simplify package dependency
2. my screen is two-dimensional: get rid of those fancy 3D effects, as they only look nice, but improve nothing in usability

5206: Make it more configurable

5207: 1) The "task bar" must be present without the need of going into the "Activities" view, for those who work with many windows opened at a time, like programmers. Tabs in the terminal aren't the best options in many workflows, and you are forcing app programmers to adopt a workflow that may be inconvenient.

2) Create the "profile" concept by using some standard configurations of the Shell, each one for a specific task or environment: laptop, pad, netbook, desktop... At least let the users decide their favourite workflow settings; KDE folks did that by allowing the old behaviour in KDE 4.X, and many people use the new Plasma workflow more and more, because they realize that the new concepts are good.

2) In the "Applications" section of the "Activities" view, don't load the screen by default with all the apps installed, at least in a "desktop" profile. It's slooooooooooooooooow as hell when you start "Applications" the first time, and useless in a desktop or laptop machine... You can add a section called "All" in the right Categories menu, like Unity - ooops :-D -.

3) Evolution is a very nice e-mail and "groupware" program, but starting evolution-data-server only for making notes in the calendar is a bit... "excessive". I admit that thunderbird without the lightning calendar is "strange" too... ¿Maybe a port of lightning into the Shell?

4) Integrate GNOME Tweak Tool in the default GNOME "distribution" by adding an "Advanced Settings" entry, or integrate the tweak tool settings in the actual system settings. It's clear that many people only want to changue wallpapers or printers or ..., but the inclusion of the Wacom Tablet settings it's really weird when you don't allow users to changue the Shell theme or the Shell fonts.

5) Allow users to unload the "Accesibility" icon and respective services when the user doesn't need it.You should't need an extension to do that.

6) Pleeeeeeeeeeease, Brasero needs a very hard "review" because it has many bugs. A big number of GNOME users - like me - install K3B becasue brasero is in an horrible state.

7) Allow users to change launcher icons properties without editing by hand the "*.desktop" files. ¿Maybe for the 3.4 release ;-)?

8) Nautilus needs a very hard revamp too. I think the Nautilus Elementary project is going in the right direction... Ah! There is an stupid "bug" - it's named "correct behaviour" in the bug reports and ignored 8-| - that doesn't allow you to copy a group of WebDAV folders and subfolders at once, only one by one; a "bug" that KDE doesn't have since the 3.5.X days...

9) Put the shutdown, logout and suspend options by default in the user menu - common sense, please -, and don't force users to install an extension for that; the decision of putting only "suspend" by default is STUPID and it must be the one to be implemented in an extension, sorry.

- Don't force the user to choose between old GNOME and Gnome 3,
create a "transition" path...

- Most users aren't idiots and/or computer illiterates; less choices doesn't make anything easy, they make it simple.

5208: More / better widgets. Also allowing non super users to install new widgets would be good.

Also allow users to change their own screensaver

In fact overall non superusers have a rough time in gnome getting it set up how they like. Windows and Mac are much better at allowing non admins to configure their desktop how they like it.

5209: I really need the Delete key to work in the traditional way, changing it so as to prevent people deeleting files by mistake ingnores the fact it is possibly used far more whilst editing text.

Give us back easy configuration, we aren't all newbies migrating from Windows or Mac systems

5210: Fix feature regressions from 2.x and some annoying bugs, and I'd be fine.

5211: More accessible advanced functionality
More customization
Even more customization. Really, I want to be able to shape my DE to what works best for me

5212: i miss gnome-applets and i miss customizing my gnome desktop.

5213: Favourites Desktop Folder rather than the "launcher" This is from a (generally) KDE user.

Doing a good job in trying to implement an environment consistent with the needs of users new to Linux environment.

5214: smaller hardware requirements

5215: Performance
Better Icon Management on Desktop

Dump Gnome 3, start over with Gnome 2

5216: Continue Gnome2 development.

And for ubuntu .. ditch Unity crap.

And.. apt-get remove the shit unity gnome3 (modify for your distro)

Seriously.. Gnome 3 & Unity ?? I'm not interested in tonka fisher price toy desktops.

5217: Gnome Shell

5218: Collaboration is a must. Not a plugin.
Freedom of choice is also a key point; I agree that default settings are the most important for 99% of users, but I want to have the possibility to personalize my desktop for my works.
I want the possibility to decide if when I close the lid of my notebook it go to suspension OR NOT, etc. etc.

5219: Less bloat
Better performance
Better-looking themes

5220: Continue your work. Always try to be more open, in all possible way.

5221: Keep going, know that people are resistant to change, but if the change is good, they will realize it in the end.

I like the new Gnome Shell, it's great. I liked Unity too, but Gnome 3 on Arch is much better.

5222: Ability to have a true "classic" menu
More configuration options (Appearance, etc.)
Power Options

5223: Configurability
More plugins (in particular notifications and widgets)
Better handling of third-party software (e.g.: Thunderbird for calendars and mail)

Make something in between Gnome 2.X and 3.X. Gnome 3 has great ideas but the change is so tough for the old school users

5224: more easy customisation
faster apps-dash
more multiple screen options

keep the great work

5225: Bring back all 2.x configuration options

Do not dumb it down!

5226: fix the lack of options in System Settings (screensaver,group management, etc..)

5227: - Create some decent sandard settings (e.g. missing shutdown from within session) for the panels/menus or give the user a simple tool to modify it. Not everyone needs accessibility.
- Writing Extensions: What is possible and *how* can I implement it? JavaScript WTF? E.g. can I set a seperate theme for specific window classes (creating a desktop-terminal without any window borders)?
- If I want to start a Terminal, I will use the Menu. If I want to switch to a Terminal I will use Expose/Taskbar/whatever the WM has in place for that. I hate it when I have to looong klick on the button just to get a menu where I can start a new instance. In Gnome2, it was up-taskbar-click. Now its up-corner-down-preferred-longclick-popupmenu-click. It's inefficient use of time - the WM should let me do what I want, fast, and then get out of the way.

Simple != Easy. Tiling WM's are 'simple' but they are not 'easy'. Gnome2 was 'easy', but not very 'simple'. Gnome3, I think, attempts to be both, but falls short halfway. All I ever wanted was a good, stable Gnome2 and a new look on top of it. But the Fallback is even less than Gnome2 was before. I can't get my work done as fast as before, so this must mean that Gnome3 is not for people like me? Well, duh...

5228: Increase the ability to customise.

It's fine to set what you think are good defaults but you are desktop environment makers, your users have different use cases so don't *force* your choices on the rest of us simply because you think you know best.

5229: * Add a "power user" mode which provides a GUI interface to finer-tweakable options without needing to use gconf

* Allow users to easier switch between "classic" and "shell" interfaces at will

* Allow GNOME and GNOME Shell to utilise Wayland natively

I think that the idea that "everything must be simplified" annoys users when this simplification reduces functionality. It would be nice if the GNOME team could work on simplifications that don't involve losing features, or at least give choices between the two paradigms.

5230: Give back all the removed options, for christ's sake! Also a normal systray and Window-Buttons

5231: _To restore the minimized windows' bar that used to be at the bottom. This would make navigation a lot faster!
_To make it stable...isn't it incredible the gnome team dared to launch 3.x with so many bugs??? ...and when the shell crashes you expect me to do a hard shutdown?...like in Vista? no, thanks; not in the 21st century!
_To make gnome customizable. Gnome is a huge project compared to LXDE (the other dm I'm used to) and yet Gnome 3 doesn't sport as many customization options as LXDE!

If I were a tablet user, I might have appreciated gnome-shell. But I use a keyboard and a mouse so I hate it.
Navigating through windows has now become a tedious task whose repeated calls to the shell I'd also like to warn epileptic users about.
Thanks to 3.x I fear the crash everytime I open/switch to a new window...sweet MS Vista souvenirs coming to my mind, hmmm:-)
Argh! I don't like to feel like a stern character, and yet, with this last version I feel squeezed with no other choice. I enjoyed putting life in my desktop with customization options tweaking, but here we're back to win95!
Generally speaking, this last version of gnome indicates one thing happening with the Gnome Team: success with gnome 2.x caused them to lose touch, they have now become arrogant and are wasting their resources.
Well, they took me for a stupid apple sheep, they lost a user.

5232: optional powerful tool for desktop modding

5233: Make gnome-shell fast as hell (sluggish on my AMD RS780)

Keep up the good work - but listen to your users.

5234: More modular Like XFCE.
Make it more friendly for old PCs, which requires less resources(CPU, RAM).
Create a "Control Panel" like that in XFCE/KDE.

I wanna run GNOME, but its too slow on 512 of RAM, please make it lightweight, I like gnome for the ease and choice of applications it has.

5235: a. Have more documentation.
b. The use of desktop space should be bought back.
c. There are still too many tools which are missing from the GNOME desktop.

a.The big one would be to have more tools.
b.System tools. There is a huge disconnect for having system tools for end-users. There needs to be tools similar to lshw-gtk or hwinfo but giving more info. in user-friendly manner.

c. As trying on GNOME 3 there is no way to know which chipsets support the compositing GNOME 3 WM. I have an Intel G31 chipset which only works on fallback and not truly GNOME 3.

d.Adding to that, is it GNOME's fault,Intel's fault, whose fault is never known and we have shallow user-experience.

5236: 1. Gnome 3 usability (7 clicks to complete a task that used to require 1 for instance).
2. Gnome 3 configurability (I neither need nor want accessibility icon on my panel, and want other icons there. Should be as simple as a right-click to remove).
3. Gnome Team should stop trying to force their way of doing things on the user base. Make options for those who want to customize to their liking.

Gnome 3 usability is horrible. What used to take 1 click for a common task now takes 7, etc.

Stop trying to force users to bend to your methodology. Offer options, configurability for the users who wish to configure. Case in point, I have no use whatsoever for the accessibility icon on my panel. It should be as simple as a right-click to remove, and I should be able to add whatever other app in its place that I want.

All you needed to see was the number of Gnome3 tweak packages that were released within days of Fedora15...nuff said.

5237: Keep up the great work!

Thank you!

5238: Keep offering choises to the users. Not everybody is in for big changes to something that worked OK for years.

5239: Reduce memory and CPU usage, make everything more customizable

Reduce memory and CPU usage, and I might use it

5240: More Options.
Don't hide features. Put all the stuff in the System Settings.
Make Gnome 3 more customizable, like Gnome 2 was.

5241: I use FLuxBox. I prefer using a customized menu system along side console windows and the few GUI apps I use (Inkscape, GIMP, OpenShot, Audor).

5242: Make it more customizable.
Make it easier to use by experienced users, i.e., deal better with workspaces and multiple windows.

Find a way to work with the people behind Unity.

5243: Don't require computer desktops look and act like smartphones, no one creates documents or programs on a smartphone unless they are nuts.

5244: Dont remove fallback mode.

5245: 1. more customization options to the look and feel of gnome
2. get rid of big icons and overview
3. that's it

keep working on it!

5246: Keep GNOME 2.x

5247: Themes that don't break very badly on every gnome update. Extensions that don fail on every update. Simple customization on display of panels and dash. The dash uses keyboard to start and if you know the app, but must switch to mouse for anything else, this is a huge step back from ALt-F1 for browsing the old menu.

5248: Use Canonicals Indicators but put them in the bottom-right gnome-shell notification area. I love how the indicators unite all notification stuff.

Keep up the awesome work. Keep shocking us with new approaches. Don't listen to user comments too much. And most of all: Please leave us with SOME configuration options at least :-)

5249: For v2.X, none.

Don't like v3. Keep it simple and work please.

5250: Don't go to gnome 3

This Unity Desktop stinks.

5251: Correct device handling when multiple users are logged in.
No compositing in full-screen applications (Metacity and Clutter).
Avoid having to wait for the menu...

5252: More options for Power-Management e.g. No suspend when screen is closed
More options for Theming
Keyboard Navigation in Overview-Mode with Arrow-Keys

Removing features or hiding important features is a bad way. Anyway, is this features are present they are less testet, if hidden.

Use instead an "Experts Button" or "Show more button" e.g.
add an option in "User Accounts" to set a user as "Power User". If this is set to "true", show all "useful" options.

Gnome will not win any users on the desktop, if the "Power User" don't use your Desktop. Gnome must satisfy the "Power User" to have the change to win an "Average User" from Windows or any other platform.

5253: I would integrate the file menus on the panel above (like) unity, I would allow desktop to forms grids (2x2) and would put the tray next to the accessibility widget.

5254: - Behaviour when alt-tabbing between 2 window classes. Windows from the new class will pop-up over the old ones, pretty hard when copy-pasting
- Easier menu-editor
- Shutdown button!

Keep up the good work

5255: Stability for gnome-shell
Zeitgeist integration

5256: Gnome Shell-Aktivities, Windows Applications

5257: make it customizable again

make it customizable again

5258: bring back panel apps or something like them

5259: Don't let Gnome 2.x die...

5260: Better support for multiple monitors. Better customization. More support for power users.

I like the Gnome 3 look and feel, but am really disappointed by the lack of support for multiple monitors and the difficulty of customizing it for power users like myself.

5261: 1. Instant response - be able to disable some animated transitions to gain instant window/workspacce switching.
2. Run dialog that actually works
3. Deterministic window and work space behavior:
- For example switch to workspace 3 with a shortcut ( win + 3 )
- Move the focused window to a workspace 2 ( win + shift + 3 )
- .... and so on

Design with a one vision, not by committee, but listen to user feedback once the dust settles. And stop being MacOS, be GNOME.

5262: Gnome3 notifications could be improved, notifications disappear and I miss them if I'm away

5263: try to make it a bit more like gnome 2.x (x3)

try to make it a bit more like gnome 2.x (x3)

5264: 1/ Return the right click desktop menu. (user configurable)
2/ Network manager - should restore default resolv.conf and _routes_ when logging out. (though I usually hack up a fix or just hand run edit stuff)
3/ Concentrate on login establishment access time. / Clean up GDM config tree.

Continue to optimise resource use. (one on gnome better features per its generally excellent functionality)

Support a lighter email app.
( claws or even balsa )
(intergrate with telepathy)

The yelp system while good needs / could load to default browser even help:// or gnome:// made available.

Generally I think the project is excellent in it scope, and objectives though it seems to be dominated by "corporate design" approaches rather than bottom up design approaches.

Which is cool after all thats a major market.

I find I dont bother with the help system as its cluncky though arguably still one of the better systems about.

The "about Gnome" dialog should be a first place of call for help.
Or kept as a simple version / contrib listing.

Its sort of halfway at the moment.

Thanks guys for an excellent desktop. Perhaps though ist time to revisit some of the core functionalities that make it a point of difference rather than a genric standard.

(and I dont mean more bling)
I mean more tranparent network focus (its Linux/BSD world)
Graduated access to configs. Lets the user in as they gain experience.

I guess there is a clean up in Ver 3 of all confg styles and approaches ?

5265: 1. More customizability
2. Window tiling options built in

Keep up the good work and might have to do something about all the backlash soon.

5266: Bring back GNOME 2.x

Not being able to see what programs are open at glance is killing productivity.

Bring back GNOME 2.x

Not being able to see what programs are open at glance is killing productivity.

5267: I would stop developmnent on gnome 3

5268: Better hardware integration
More customization
Online content auto-download and install (wallpapers, gdm, etc...)

Keep up the good work!

5269: 1) Put the applications menu back in the upper-left corner by default (without needing extensions to do so)

2) Re-add more of the configuration options that were lost between gnome 2.x and 3.0.

3) Add workspace switching keyboard shortcuts and add shortcuts to move windows to new/different workspaces).

I like Gnome 3.x so far, but I've made heavy use of gnome-tweak-tool and extensions to restore functionality that really should be there by default. There are certain things that were lost going from 2.x to 3.0 that I really miss.

5270: There is one really big one for me, I always found the text entry and display area very useful in nautilus.

Need to have an option to differentiate between what experience we get depending on what "type" of device. Gnome 2 had some advantages for desktops and laptops with mouse or touchpads. Not everyone is running a tablet or smart phone with a touch screen. Because of that lack, I will NEVER use Unity on anything, and will stick with Gnome. I would like Gnome to not forget that even "average" people can be "power users". (I sometimes am amazed at what everyday people do with their computers, no matter what the OS or desktop environment, they will find a way!)

5271: Drop Gnome 3, bring Gnome 2 back

Die Gnome 3 devs, die!

5272: Gnome 2 is good

Gnome 3 is best suited for netbooks IMHO.

5273: 1. Classic menus are better than shells, I'd like to have them back! Shells just suck, both Unity and GNOME shell. There should be the ability to choose GNOME2-style menus in GNOME3.
2. One of the many strengths of Linux is that the user is able to customize the desktop, but I believe GNOME3 is heading into wrong direction.
3. There is no "free" space in Nautilus' list view, which is very annoying. Easy to fix, so quite amazing that this hasn't already been done!

Make GNOME look (even) better!

5274: Absolute #1: Waaay more customization
2.) Make it easier to change the size of icons in the app view
3.) Bring back the desktop cube!

Keep up the good work, and keep improving on the new desktop. I'm really happy with all the social media integration. Maybe come up with a new video chat app like what Apple is doing with iChat and find a way to integrate it. Linus might not like GNOME 3, but I'm happy with it. Really freaks out the people behind me in class when they see me running GNOME 3 on a Macbook Pro!

5275: Tend do the look an fell of Ubuntu themes
Permit more easyer control of configurations

Push harder on the development of the platform

5276: Stop development of GNOME 3
Stop development of GNOME Shell
Add easier & advanced configuration options to GNOME 2.x (somewhat on the lines of KDE 3)

Don't dumb it down to the level of a smartphone. Desktop/laptop computers are for running real computer programs; smartphones are for social interaction and amusement.

5277: I have to wait and see what you do with gnome 3. I'm not yet sure what to think about it. Gnome 2 was ready to use, and easily customizable, for the most part of it. I think a fully customizable gnome classic is still worth having available to end users. If the gnome project can do anything to improve power management and heat, that would also be useful. Under Ubuntu 11.04 and mint 11 I have had trouble heat/fan problems on my Toshiba laptop. I switched to kde for grins on mint 11-and my problems went away.

See my prior comments. Heat/power consumption.

5278: - better desktop search (Tracker integration)
- multimedia keys should work in the activities view too, they should always work.
- a convenient plugin infrastructure for the Shell like in Firefox

I like the new GNOME-shell! :-)

5279: continue improving ordinary user's experience

5280: much more kde level control

5281: 1 - Improvement of a few features (choose my own calendar, add other types of online accounts, etc...)
2 - Speed increase: Nautilus is a bit slow and the super-key search is a bit slow too.
3 - More customization options/make it easier.

Keep on doing the good work, you got a great foundation to build upon. Consider working with Marlin instead of Nautilus - the speed difference is substantial.

And yes, like I'm sure others have pointed out, allow a bit of customization back in.

PS: Looking forward to the extension website.

5282: 1) stable of GNOME 3
2) More graphical options of GNOME 3 - it is too simple
3) Layout as GNOME 2 in GNOME 3 ;-D (it is too dark)

Good work!

5283: * Go back to the GNOME 2 Look and feel
* Make the developers more sensible to the users' demands
* Make customization easier (Even easier than it used to be on GNOME 2)

Don't follow the tablet hype. There are a lot of Desktop users who rely on you. You were doing great with GNOME 2!

5284: - automatic windows tiling (toggle option)
- per physical monitor virtual desktops (like e17 and awesome do)

5285: Gnome Shell stability, Suspend issues, Input speed of gnome shell ( first-use of type-ahead search is slow, windows key +type too quick and things get miffed)

Better theming, including a visual theme-editor, improved font-selector, Fixes to avoid input-stealing of new windows and applications. (Slow disk, Start 5 apps, start typing in terminal, where will your focus be in 1 minute from now?)

Have a clearer documentation on why and how, better introduction to hard-to-find key arrangements for new gnome users ( alt+mouseclick on fallback mode? Hardly discoverable)

5286: - Tiling/framed window management mode.

- Full window management scripting/configurability/event handling with complete bindings in common scripting language such python or ruby (NOT one of the oddballs like lua, haskell, erlang, etc)

- Outlaw any use of binary config files by any part of GNOME. The Windows registry is one of it's worst features. Stop imitating it.

Don't forget that both experts and new computer users want to be empowered when using their computers. The trend of dumbing down GNOME in the name of ease of use is misguided. Ease of use does not need to imply the un-empowering of users.

5287: Add maximize and minimize buttons.

Shift the arrows for navigation to their original place (left side) in nautilus from right.

Have the file manager handle the desktop. I don't need an extremely clean desktop.

Please add simple functions like changing themes, icon themes and other such functionality that were robbed off users in gnome 3 through gnome shell.

If simple tasks are not included then the shell is not competent enough.

Although i like the new way of doing things, please add back the minimize and maximize buttons.

Summary: I like the new shell but stealing functionality from the users is disappointing, because that is why the shells and DE's were made in the first place.

5288: I like Gnome 2 interface and hate Gnome 3 Shell. I'm currently running in fallback mode and thinking of trying XFCE or KDE.

Dynamic workspaces suck. I don't think I'm alone in using workspaces to group related applications tasks? I think, like most people, it's become ingrained in me which workspace I need for whatever task I want to do - I know what desktop my Nautilus or Thunderbird or Firefox or whatever is going to be on without having to look. Everything in it's place, and /bam/, I'm efficient at getting to it. But those apps don't get all started up and running like that in an instant, when I come in to work, I might start with email and web and maybe a open an SSH session to read a log on a remote server, and then later on that day, open Eclipse or whatever. But with Gnome Shell it's now almost impossible to get the ordered workspaces I'm accustomed to! And even if I do open everything in the right order to get it setup right, if I then close my email on workspace 1 when I go home for the day, I can't reopen it on workspace 1 when I come in the next, as all my web stuff will have bumped down from workspace 2! WTF do the Gnome devs expect me to do here? What are they using their workspaces for where this isn't a huge problem? Is everything just in a big messed up jumble for them? Is this why the help documentation has instructions how to "find a lost window"? I don't lose windows!!

How is hiding the workspace switcher behind the activities overview a good idea? Workspace switching on my 30" LCD is killing me! I might have been able to handle an auto-hiding switcher if I could activate it directly with a hot-corner in the top right or something, but having to go top-left for the activities overview first, and then over to the right, is just a royal PITA. When you can see the switcher all the time (like Gnome 2), your brain can focus on scanning for what you are going to click on, while your body moves your hand and the pointer in that direction - so you can instantly click when the pointer gets down there. But with Gnome Shell, I have to move the mouse 3 feet back and forth over my 30" before the switcher un-hides and my brain can even start to scan for what I'm going to eventually click on! And Gnome 2 was one motion to the switcher on the panel, and one click to switch, where Gnome 3 is one motion upper left, one motion far right to switcher, and then a double click to switch. That's twice as many motions and twice as many clicks! If managing this stuff is the primary responsibility of Gnome, how can the devs view *doubling* the effort required for it's primary task as anything more than complete FAIL? I'm using alt-tab as a workaround to just pick the app I want, instead of the workspace, but gah! I think alt-tab should really only be for the apps on the current workspace anyhow, but in this case not doing that is saving me.

Where is minimize? Do the Gnome 3 devs really keep all N windows on your screen at once? Let's say I am surfing, and download 5 files, starting 5 viewer windows... and after quickly looking at the contents, I decide I don't need to read those docs right now, but want to keep them around to read a short time later, without having to find the links to download them again. So, I minimize them, to get them out of the way of what I'm doing now. Or, at least, I used to, but now I have no minimize button?? Ok, so I can right click on the title bar now and get a menu to do it, yay, but that's really inconvenient! I can add some non-standard hack to get the buttons back, OK. I'm more wondering, in the Gnome 3 dev world view, what am I expected to do? Have a big jumble of windows peeking out from behind each other and distracting me?

The activities view sucks. I used my taskbar as an ORDERED LIST of things pending my attention! I no longer see any easy way I can see to re-order/prioritize my tasks like this. And when I minimize something, POOF!, it's like it's gone! - and because the workspace switching sucks and I'm using alt-tab to bypass it, I try never to go into the activities view, but I'm forgetting about the minimized things as a result! Even worse is when I do go in there! My brain finds it fairly easy to process the short text of the window titles in the old taskbar - where the activities view overwhelms me with all the contents of those apps as well! My head explodes every time I open it! BAM 8 big white boxes of tiny unreadable text, no app icons, WTF one do I want, AHHH!?! *cries*

And the applications overview - how is having the default view hitting the user with a big confusing pile of *everything* a better idea than a nicely organized menu? And, again, how is burying all of this mess inside the activities view better than that organized menu being directly accessible from the panel? More clicks are fun, yay? It shows off the pretty icons all at once?

And I just downright detest any paradigm which mixes running apps with their launchers! I know the newb masses who only utilize a single window of any given app don't understand the difference and don't care, but I'm not a newb, and the resulting nerfing of the interface makes creating the desired multiple instances/windows of things into a major PITA! - aka I don't want to have to right click and select "new window" when I used to be able to just click!

I'm not against learning a new way of working, but I just don't see how every aspect of Gnome 3 Shell isn't less efficient than it was before.

5289: More customization.
Merge active window title bar with panel and scoot date and time over to the left.
Make Activities menu the desktop itself and remove the darkening of the wallpaper.

Try using your own desktop environment and see if you find it convenient to use.

5290: 1. Reduce margin and padding
2. Add mouse 3 shortcut to open and close tabs
3. Redesign Nautilus

5291: Please bring back the applets!

5292: 1. Forget about GNOME 3.
2. More config settings.
3. Easy config i.e. Don't need to use a terminal.

Listen to your users! Stop being like apple and thinking you know what your users want/need before they even know it. We are not fanboys and remember with have other options unlike apple fanboys.

5293: Go back to Gnome 2.
Allow more configuration options.
Make tiling windows a default feature, rather than running pytile.

Listen to your user base.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Don't become obsessed with the design rules to the point of creating a useability nightmare.

5294: Bring back the taskbar in Gnome 3. Either that or make the Applications function not bring up every single application on the system with a gigantic icon that is not searchable.

5295: I use a wireless keyboard, I really need something that shows me the state of the 3 lock lights.

I hate that Gnome 3 is a backward step visually from Gnome 2 with Compiz - I loved the Desktop on a cube and the window effects.

I miss all the applets - multiple weather applets, the desktop pager, dictionary lookup, the character applet, the ability to drag a window to the next screen (a Compiz feature).

I love the idea, but access to customisation is missing, simple, critical tools are missing (keyboard lock light applet for wireless keyboards), ability to select a screensaver. I would like the option to alt-tab between windows in the current view as well as globally across all views. Dual screen support in Gnome 3 is poor. I miss all the great benefits from Compiz of Desktop on a cube and the window effects. I don't like that the dock doesn't make clear the difference between apps that are not running that can be started from the dock and apps that are running that are then switched to when selected in the dock. I'm sure Gnome 3 will mature and I'm looking forward to 3.2 when I upgrade to Fedora 16 in a few weeks but it has a long way to go before it can compete with Gnome 2 with Compiz Fusion.

5296: 1. bring back and make work the save session and restore session feature.
2. Provide better Java and maybe JavaScript bindings
3. Provide better support for screenlets and gdesklets and integrate the two and allow them to be written in Java and/or JavaScript and support HTML5 in a similar way to the way Microsofts old Active Desktop works, but better.

listen to what people are asking for and look to see how the android desktop software works.

5297: 1) Reinstate the user menu. Im using both the one from gnome-shell-extensions and the old one via cairo-dock. The menu let's the average user find applications that barely use but are necessary from time to time (ej startup applications (how the hell you set then in gnome 3?))
2) better responsiveness. The average user cant understand or accept that the systemlog show be checked when applications doesnt start normally.
3) An easy accesable gnome log would be highly appreciated
4) better printing support. Interacting with printers in office enviroments is a headache

Overall i believe the GNOME team does a preety good job. Personally i'm not confortable with gnome 3 but i consider that is a well done job that will keep getting better with time
I would suggest the team to try more agile development processes and to add a new repository (half way between development and stable) to try new ideas that average joe would be able to try

5298: Get rid of the 3.0 desktop (and Unity ove on Ubuntu).
Focus an changes that are useful / meaningful, like stability, speed, and leveraging new concepts like cloud.
Keep working of Evollution and MS Exchange interop. have to use DAVMail right now to get to MS Exchange...

Gnome 3 is great... if you wanted me to be a LXDE (Lubuntu) user. I miss many things about gnome, but not nearly as much as I am glad to be rid of the Gnome 3 interface. Really: My desktop and my laptop are not tablets.

5299: Bring back configurable panels
An easier way to add/apply themes
More customization ability all around

Gnome 3 was pretty bad in my opinion. 3.2 is a big step in the right direction, but I've moved to XFCE until Gnome can get things back on track.

5300: Easily accessible settings for window management: things which are only accessible through gconf-editor.

Gnome is used by a lot of developers such as myself. It should not be directed towards the dumb end-user. Gnome 3 is attracting a lot of criticism for doing the latter. Please make it 'developer-friendly'.