What People Are Saying About GNOME [Part 6]
5701: 1) Kick out 3.x UX fancy designers
2) Value developers and community opinions more than fancy designers' ones
3) Resume 2.x
Please, reconsider 2.x!!
5702: Gnome Shell UIs arrangement
Let Fallback Mode be Gnome 2
Allow Gnome 2 panel items on Fallback Mode panel
GTK3 Theme Manager
5703: # Make the desktop user experience customisable at least up to GNOME 2.x level
# Have smooth and high quality font display by default (Eg: OS X, Ubuntu)
# Have official support for Ruby
# While GNOME 3.x looks great, some of us like to customise it heavily to fit into our work flow. In my case, I tend to customise it to a very good looking, yet minimalistic desktop. I don't want to switch to something like openbox, but I hate when the desktop gets in my way. (Eg: the activities behavior is both distracting and interrupting)
# Please consider supporting a GlobalMenu-like tool. While it's not for everyone, those who use depends on it.
# Please show more love to Vala. We could use more developer tools, libraries and most importantly documentation. tutorials, guides and screencasts, etc. Further capabilities (and documentation, etc.) about non-GNOME/GUI programming is also would be welcome.
5704: Lower memory usage
Lower screen real-estate consumption
5705: Work to make KDE/Qt apps fit in better (theme detection, etc) in GNOME.
Give us a high-quality how-tos and IDE/templates for GNOME/GTK development.
Adopt ubuntu's dbus powered indicators (and add one for downloads/torrents).
You guys have really been leaving the co-operative work up to the KDE guys, please participate more, suggest more, develop MORE cross-desktop ideas.
Take a lesson from the elementary guys. Simplicity, new ideas & satisfied users.
5706: - Kill GNOME3
- If GNOME3 cannot be killed, use as backup interface the real GNOME2 not some sort of copy...
- Open development of GNOME, since with open development something as useless as GNOME3 would never have happened
Better not, this would not be allowed to be published in certain countries...
5707: 1) Stop trying to be like Mac.
2) Allow for more easy customization and configuration.
3) Focus on core performance, stability, and lower resource consumption instead of silly things like social networking integration.
GNOME / Linux is primarily for developers. We all want our grandmas to use Linux but it's just not gonna happen. They are gonna use iPads. Stop trying to cater to the grandmas and instead focus on making the best desktop for developers and other advanced users.
5708: Create a docking bar in gnome 3.
Make it possible to minimize windows in gnome 3 to the above dock so I can concentrate on what I need and still be able to pop up the window I temporary need.
Make it possible to have predefined number of virtual desktops at start in gnome 3.
While it is good to think new and daring to try alternative aproaches to desktop usage is great, dont throw away what works for a lot of people, what is perfect for one rarely is for another.
Don't overdo the simplification on settings. KDE and Gnome do the opposite mistakes. While KDE has too many settings visible to the user Gnome is getting too few visible. This is based on my experience with 3.0
5709: -Bring back the ease of customization of Gnome 2.x
-removing the bugs affecting me
-stop forcing users into using certain programs to get a few extras and integrate those directly
Start doing _REAL_ research into UI design and properly test your stuff before unleashing it to the masses
5710: - start listening to what people actually want
- remove the shell
- fix the window manager
- get your shit together, folks! GNOME 3 is a joke and that makes you a joke!
5711: Better multiple monitor support although that might not be GNOME's problem. Still the user does not know that and so GNOME must help.
Bring back the old keyboard shortcuts and usability that we had. New features don't mean the good old solid stuff must go :)
5712: 1- Have appliction icons already grouped as default view, having a huge stash of icons in alphabetical order makes little sense
2- Expose more options in the printer setup dialog, setting up an All-in-one HP network printer doesn't automatically set up network scanning right now
3- Contact grouping in Empathy is cool, but it doesn't work if a contact has his status set to "invisible" (claims he's just offline)
I'd like to see more programs supporting the new notification system, and using it to its full extent (I'm watching at you, Rhythmbox...)
5713: 1) Configuration options need expanded - Themeability
2) Performance and memory usage need updated
3) Alt-tab. The thing where it groups by process is annoying. I would much rather just switch through a window list. It is so much faster that way.
Your work is under appreciated. Keep it up!
5714: 1. Better fallback mode
2. Even better fallback mode
3. again better fallback mode
Complete rethink of their objectives, listening to community needs.
5715: Give the option of 2.X desktop layout or give 3.x with more option to setup the gui are way and don't shove down are throats this other crap.
Not every body what's a tablet lay out or touch screan. Some of us use a mouse and the new lay out suck with a mouse. That is why I am looking at Xfce or LXDE to upgrade to next. I personal use ubuntu 10.04 that is the best gnome gui setup that I like, but I need the newer linux kernal so I like LXDE now but I am still in reseach mode with that project.
5716: Should have a Shutdown on the menu in addition to Suspend/Logout. (by default)
The UI should provide easy links to the documentation.
Thanks for the hard work.
5717: 1)sudo killall Unity
2)allow users to move the Unity dock
3)redesign the 'find applications' layout
First off, quit with the Unity Dock, you're not Mac OSX, you don't need a floating bar anywhere, so what if you pander to people who actually know how to use terminal... wouldn't you rather play to the needs and desires of the tech-savvy dev community (who actually use your system for what it's intended) vs just trying to make something that is 'popular' for the masses of tech-ignorant ppl that are just going to flood IRC (once they realize it still exists)??? I say let those people spend their money on W7 and whatever flavor of starbucks-inspired crap Mac pumps out next as the new fad... you're better than them. You tout the GNU and run with the power of the Kernel, you don't need the hassle of making something as beautifully complicated as GNU/Linux w/ Gnome into the next fad.
5718: 1. For first-time GNOME3 users, I've noticed that they need to be told to drag their mouse up to the upper-left corner of the screen to expose shortcuts or switch between windows. It would be nice to see if there is a way to advertise this functionality to new users.
2. Would be nice to have some user-controlled space in the top bar. Obviously, black with time time/calendar widget is nice, but it would be great to be able to work with the space around the time/calendar display.
3. Allow wallpaper selection of a rotation of wallpapers that are different on each screen.
5719: - slightly more configuration options
- better performance
- better stability
5720: - Reverting the whole new look & how Gnome 3.x interacts with the user to 2.x
- Forking Gnome 2.x and starting a side project to continue development of gnome 2.x
- Gnome 3.x will definitely lose many users over time.
- Use the community and users ideas to improve Gnome.
- After many years of experience I believe that Gnome 2.x was easy-to-use, light and snappy, completely customizable and flexible as it could be perfectly enhanced with many other facilities and that these qualities are not available in the new gnome version.
5721: 1) The "applications" menu.
2) Add a kind of taskbar somewhere... I'm lost without it !
3) The indicators place... They feel quite lonely in the below right corner ! I usually see them when I don't want (I move my cursor too much), and never see them when I would need it !
- Change the "applications" menu of gnome 3 :
A "mosaic display" like you can see in smartphones is not convenient at all (at least for me). I don't have a good overview of what is installed in my computer and I don't find what I want easily...
- maybe you could fusion windows decoration (application name, close button) and the menu (file, edit,...) to save room. The way Unity does it is confusing though !
- the new workspace system is great !
5722: Separate settings for LANG versus LC_*. I prefer English text, but would still like Swedish conventions for decimal separator, date format, etc.
I appreciate the hard work you're putting into making as much as possible "just work" and avoiding settings that are only there because the developer/designer couldn't be bothered to make them unnecessary. However, it can be taken too far.
5723: -a window/application switcher which is always visible
-more themes
-desktop icons / desktop folder
5724: minimize, maximize buttons displayed by default
option to disable hot corner in top left so that you have to click on the activities button
integration with google calendar rather than evolution
Keep up the great work - Gnome Shell is great and getting better all the time. I use it on Ubuntu rather than Unity and find it better in almost every way
5725: 1. Gnome panel = from opaque and unartistic panels to aero transparent panel
2. File Manager = from nautilus to dolphin featured filemanager
3. Mail service and calendar = from evolution to thunderbird with integrated calendar.
The team has been working excellently. I appreciate very much their generosity and availablity in sharing their time and talent to all users who benefit from the project.
I suggest that a more integrated and seamless applications be made for gnome shell and all the other applications such as internet browsers, office applications etc., integration of the messaging is an excellent start! Kudos!
5726: Speed
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Gnome3 back to Gnome2
5727: Gnome 3 must be more extensible (I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO INSTALL AN ADDON SO I CAN INSTALL ADDONS!)
Gnome 3 must be more configurable
(One menu position, one menu, one look, one configuration of virtual desktops, one configuration of the menu, one configuration of the menu bar, one configuration of the notification system, one blah blah blah blah blah. Nothing can be changed without "addons" to give the users features they've had since forever. We've taken those settings for granted, but we want them back NOW please.Even if it's simply an "advanced" tab in every configuration window, that's fine, but leave your settings configurable)
Gnome 3 must be easier on graphics hardware.
(Gnome has been catering to the "lighter" side of hardware for years. Gnome's hard won users and fans have hardware that ran Gnome 2.x. They sometimes don't have the hardware to run a beefy interface (perhaps thats why they use linux/bsd in the first place?), or simply don't want to. Don't kick these people to the curb. They are not nobodies. They are users too, and they should not be treated with such remorseless scorn.)
Gnome 3 must not be so touch-screen centric
(Believe it or not, most people don't have touchscreen PCs to run Linux on. We don't load Gnome 3 on tablets, we have Android for that. We don't buy the craptacular all-in-one touchscreen PCs from Dell, Sony, HP, or Asus, and if we did it's hardware wouldn't run with Linux drivers anyhow. We use mice and keyboards, thank you very much. Catering to the touch-screen is bass-ackwards, as the vast majority of Linux users (not counting Android users, who aren't about to wipe out Android to install some OS that can't even make a phone call) do not have these.
Gnome 3 shouldn't cater to the 'average' computer user
(Gnome is an interface for Linux, BSD etc. NOT Apple OSX or Windows. Stop pretending the reality is different. Your users are geeks, nerds, Linux enthusiasts. The helpless masses (who I'd hardly trust with a guest profile on my Linux machine) will only come to Linux (and to your project!) by being brought over by current Linux users. My advice is this- Don't piss those people off, or Gnome isn't headed in a good direction. One day, I hope those people do use Linux. Until then, don't engineer your software assuming that your users don't understand how to change a simple setting back, or don't want to customize their interface, or that we'll forget a window, or that we'll only have one window open at a time.)
First, let me say that I do enjoy using Gnome 3. Its fun, pretty etc. but there are things (see above) that I think should definitely change if Gnome wants to have users 3 years from now.
Also, the Gnome Team really needs to take a step back and evaluate their position. They've managed to PO a very large percentage of the community, and they need to ask themselves: Why are we doing this project? Who are we making this software for? Why are we making this software? Is it to innovate? Is it to serve others? Is it for personal gratification?
Their answers should motivate changes- real changes, in their communication with the community, in their direction, in their software. No more useless pandering or excuses.
Gnome Team- decide, RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW and then MOVE ON.
5728: be lighter
more configurable
more themes by default and better quality
5729: Add more settings,
Add more settings,
and add even more settings!
I don't bother if the team thinks that it would be better do a thing in a way that's different from the way I do. But please, add the option to change it.
It's very unpleasant to search the web to change simple things like, one example, to remove the accessibility icon from the bar, or to install an "extension" to get the shutdown button back on menu.
Worse, to have 2 settings applications: one for stupid users and other for the not so stupid users. And even when you have both of them you still cannot do so much!
5730: 1) Dual head support sucks. Fix it. The biggest problem is that the window geometry assumes you have one canvas and not two. The result is that plugins get placed weird places, the sidebar floats weird places, etc. This problem is worse when the monitors are two different sizes like a laptop and a desk monitor.
2) Fix the mouse in GTK3 for nonGTK window managers. It seems like mouse events are not properly communicated when using GTK apps in KDE.
3) WTF sad computer screen? I love mac nostalgia too, but just restart whatever tanked. If it crashes three times in a row, then display the "I'm dead" screen. Crashes are sadly normal - especially on a box used for development - and doubly so when developing gnome. This is annoying as hell.
1) User contempt - you has it in spades. Training wheels mode is OK, but having some global flag for advanced options is required.
2) Kill Miguel de Icaza
5731: * I'd like the alternative Alt-Tab behaviour to be the default.
* Default theme is way too simple and wastes too much screen space.
* Speed application startup time (though it's better than KDE).
Keep on innavating! :-)
5732: Bring back all the settings. The new control panel is terrible.
Give right-click on desktop back for appearance settings
Let me control the data/time at the top. I want full date, not just day of the week.
5733: - add more configuration options
- use KDE and Unity compatible appindicators
- rebuilt it using Qt
- have fun but don't forget your users
- work better together with KDE and Unity, think of Linux as a whole
5734: 1) Hack GTK in order to offer file/folder "Rename", "Delete" during "Save As". Also offer a memory or focal point to remember the last "Save as" path
2) Hack Nautilus to allow cut & paste of entire file paths. Make it default more Midnight Commander style (or see Sunflower Filemanager). Offer more file information with right click.
3) Changing an icon of a dektop shortcut does not allow for entering or seeing the path of the icon file.
I use the GNOME 2.x desktop with a double panel at the bottom, not top panel. One panel contains the open windows list and desktop chooser, whilst the other the desktop shortcut icons of my favourite applications. This used to be once a standard Windows desktop, and I have come to use desktops like that ever since.
So, I do not see the point of the new GNOME 3.x desktop philosophy that somehow forces me to use the desktop in a particular way.
5735: 1. use compiz with Gnome 3
2. have more control over Gnome 3 appearance and usability = compiz with its amount of setting for key/mouse bindings, effects. I want to look different!Not uniform!
3. it's enough. :)
Arrogant! They know what is best for all! Completely WRONG! Without gnome-shell extensions will be Gnome 3 total fail!
5736: 1. How to configure the keys with Fluxbox.
2. Suffice me for Nautilus in Fluxbox window.
3. Run applications on a particular desktop.
4. Ewolution: Flawless send encrypted emails to multiple recipients.
5. Original cdrecord
Be sure to leave the possibility of setting up panels.
I use four:
Left: Multimendia and menus
Right: Tools
Top: Folders, Firefox, Skype, Thunderbird
Bottom: Classical and Office.
Without this option will only Fluxbox or Vista
5737: 1) the round inverted corners at the top of the gnome shell panel look weird
2) with maximized windows in the gnome shell, there's too much waste of vertical space: top bar with date+time+activities button etc, window title bar and menu bar. Unity does this much better, one bar for everything. maybe that should be configurable, but the window title bar is definitely not so 2011
3) support personal (not google) cloud services that one can run on one's own server
there are a lot of interesting concepts, i.e. the launcher or whatever it's called: i think it has a really nice balance between the old-style category thing and the "use search bar for everything"-approach (aka unity dash).
however, in means of screen space usage gnome shell is a regression, it has a too large default theme and its panel layout is not configurable like in gnome 2. that's why i'm probably switching to xfce in some time.
5738: Use less space with the theme and window borders.
Allow me to use my desktop how I want.
Stop opening everything in a new workspace. For god sake, this is so fucking annoying.
Why the fuck can't I add shortcuts to the desktop. Why the fuck can't I minimise Windows. Why the fuck can I no longer preview music by mouse-over. Why the fuck does everything open on it's own workspace. Why the fuck are the window borders so big. Why the fuck does the whole theme waste so much space. Why the fuck is GDM so horrible compared to LightDM in Ubuntu. Why the fuck are there hardy any options available in online accounts. Why the fuck did you use Metacity rather than Compiz. I do like the way menus slide out of the top of the dialogue boxes though. But everything else is SHITE. Too many usability regressions. Unity FTW (Yes I know that's GNOME as well lol)
5739: - Ability to integrate a tiling window manager
- A shortcut to go directly to the Applications menu instead of first going to Window overview.
- More speed!
It was very good to see that Gnome 3.2 not only delivered brand new applications etc., but also focused on increasing speed and lowering memory consumption. Keep it up! :-)
5740: More configuration and behaviour options.
Better comparability (clear up video card issues)
More left handed friendliness?
I appreciate you are trying to push forward, change needs to happen. The default configuration is something I dislike in every graphical environment so I don't care what it initially looks like, as long as I can manipulate it to meet my needs. end user options are a big thing in this community, right now my best option is not to use GNOME until it has more options.
5741: Proper multi-monitor support,
Integrated tracker search,
Stability
Loving Gnome3, but please let's get proper multi-monitor support, integrated tracker search, and a default set of gnome-shell extensions.
5742: I would add a minimalist version / mode to GNOME. It would be nice to run AwesomeWM with full and flawless support for GNOME-centric applications.
Lower memory usage / less resource intensive. Not everyone uses super quad-core computers ya know!
I really like the idea of integrating your communication channels (IM, IRC, email, SMS, etc...) into your environment. It would be nice to see a more polished interface that all applications can use out of the box.
While I no longer run pure GNOME I do rely on applications written specifically for GNOME. Please don't break this functionality.
5743: 1) Get rid of gnome-shell
2) use plain text configuration files instead of dconf
3) ditch gnome-shell
Really, get rid of gnome-shell, it sucks
5744: 1. Option for fullscreen "windowed" applications (No Window Title Bar and no Bar on top of the Screen) Where you could return to normal mode with a keypress or moving the mouse to the top left corner
2. Add a Desktop tab like with the Activities so you can view Files on your desktop without a standalone filebrowser
3. Make an easy button for adding Executables to the Activity Browser for example you have a program in your home folder with an executable then you could click on add program and choose this executable and choose an icon and a category and it will be listed in your activities, maybe this can be done already if so then it would be nice to add a button for it somewhere in the activity menu.
5745: - go back to 2.x
- abandon 3.x development
- don't make me use xfce
yeah, why did you kill something that was great (g 2.x) ?
5746: Better alt-tab.
Top bar becoming usefull.
More information on what is happening while I'm using gnome, because programs tend to be hidden.
You guys made a bad decision pushing gnome3 to users. After all you develop gnome to us right? Or maybe not.
5747: 1 - Put system tray back to the top bar, where it belongs!
2 - Stop gnome shell from "de-zooming" my current desktop when I close the last window
3 - Stability improvement
Please make gnome less idiot proof and more geek friendly, never mind about conquering desktop world ad average joe user, keep in mind your current user base!
5748: 1 - gnome 3 UI team (they disregard the difference between what they think the users want and what the users want)
2 - gnome 3 UI behavior (looks good, works bad, more specific: alt-tab, auto workspace remove, hidden notification area)
3 - gnome 3 hardware compatibility (AMD radeon,....)
Gnome 3 has a superb software architecture, allowing easy customisation.
I advise the team to go with the flow, to follow the growing modding community or gnome will become a middleware for graphical shells instead of a shell.
Many coders dislike the UI team and the GPL allows us to bypass them in any way we deem suitable. If they keep attracting unhappy developers, someone will fork.
5749: Make the dash permanently visible. Avoid needless mouse movement to the other side of the screen to switch workspaces, Make the dash permanently visible.
Make the dash permanently visible.
5750: * Trust that the users are individuals & allow them to customize the desktop.
* Quit reducing the features.
* Stop using stupid designs where the different processes find each other via automatically set environment variables, which make it very hard to manually start daemons so that they know to whom they should connect.
Stop crippling the gnome desktop! Every year there seems to be less & less features for customization. I want to be able to modify the desktop panels & applets to suit my needs and I really hate the way they have to be configured via gconf-editor etc. If windows uses binary ini files, why the heck gnome people must try tyo copy all those bad features ?
5751: 1) Make things easier configurable. Like in KDE. So one wouldn't have to Google for an hour, and then set things in gconf-editor.
2) Don't make apps this stupid. I understand you want simplicity. But you are doing it wrong.
3) Have a set of tools. Like KDE does. (I know, KDE again...) System Settings is a very nice example.
5752: Gnome 3.X
-Dock should be in a persistent location between the plugin that places it on the desktop (Right side and smaller) and when the 'activities' menu is opened (Left side and larger)
-User should be allowed to specify the number of virtual desktops, and desktop layout should be allowed horizontally. If not allowing for horizontal layout, have it so keys can be easily remapped to change desktops with Ctrl+Alt+Left/Right
-Allow more settings in the 'Systems Settings' area. OS X does a great job of allowing a lot of configuration in a Settings area that is far from cluttered. You can allow customization in a sane way, no need to hide it all together (and only expose via gconf)
Overall, I'm glad you took a leap and made the move to a new UI in Gnome3. I was at first very opposed to it, but now find myself enjoying it more and more. With a little polish, I think it will be the new standard. It is FAR better than Unity :)
5753: Back to gnome 2 style !
5754: 1/ more configurations options
2/ Nautilus : better network support
3/ ?
make it simpliest, more usefull, less 3D gadgets but more usability,..
5755: more productivity oriented
respect user's need to define their environment
less resource hungry
encourage distro publishers to continue to provide access gnome 2.3 rather than a limp and worthless "fallback"
5756: 1. Restore good old power-manager with ups support.
2. Remake some ugly interface.
3. more applications like kde.
Stop copying microsoft windows features.
5757: 1. Please make a Gnome 2 look-a-like environment for Gnome 3
2. Please don't disable so many configuration options. I really want to use G3, but can't handle not being able to change simple things.
3. Please include a taskbar - I really like to use it to switch between apps.
5758: 1st of all i need a better console(if you open pico inside the terminal, you can't even paste the text), just port the feature from kde's konsole to gnome-terminal, and change that name. when i want to run a command don't make me type extra staff that have no sense, just `terminal`. Also guake is awfull, i've been using yakuake instead.
2nd thing is, fix the run application previleges problem. When I am trying to open a program that only su can do it, ask for password or do not open it at all. I don't need e.g. synaptic without su previleges, I don't need to read the packages, I need to install/uninstall them.
3rd 1,2 are the staff I don't like in gnome 2.x . Well Gnome 3 is good for common users but not for developers.Ritchie said about Unix "you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity", I mean, keep a simple version of gnome ... otherwise (when debian stable goes to gnome 3) I will migrate to something like openbox or lxde
well, `Gnome tema`, coding is good, makes our head working, but get laid as much as you can.
From a fellow programmer.
5759: 1>give me the option to use 2.3x style desktop
2>cut off or slim down those tiny indicators which take 20MB or 30MB memory each
3>use a lighter X server. I do not like the current "X" eats CPU around 6% ~ 9% even the computer is totally idling.
1>put your users first, not yourselves or your egos.
2>listen to your users, not the users have to follow you
3>serve your users, not the users need your mercy
5760: 1. Better desktop grid - it's very chaotic now
2. Better gnome panel stability at startup - almost every time some random plugin doesn't load
3. Generally, it's ok
I kinda trust you, but don't force things some users don't want to use. Make gnome 3 fully compatible with gnome 2 - with that i mean something like the fallback mode.
5761: - In gnome-shell, any action take a lot of time : you must click or move your mouse everywhere in your screen. On a big screen, it's just shit.
- Don't try to change users : users don't use search engine to find applications. A tree is something REALLY good to find and lauch applications. I regret my gnome-pannel + gnome-do for search.
Just use you desktop on any device.
You desktop is good for netbook... but a piece of shit for big screen with multi-monitor (like We use at work !)
5762: I'm using Gnome 2 on fedora 14, and I would like extended support. If support ends, I don't think I'm moving to Gnome 3 as, unfortunately, I find it uncomfortable to work with. The main reason it the, often heard but very true, lack of options for configuration. The second reason is that Gnome 3 (I used it for about three weeks on fedora 15) window management distracts me while I'm working because I don't have an overview on my windows and apps without the whole screen changing very dynamically. This gets in my way as I want to have as much options as possible (options to open apps, change windows, save files and look at all my running apps) by changing as little as possible.
Make me (and other users) being able to place applets, change and add panels on the side and at the bottom, configure these panels etc. to create own work flows. It would be nice and smart not to make Gnome 3 like a tablet but more like a desktop. I'm not saying this because I'm opposed to change or I don't appreciate the work all the volunteers put in Gnome 3, but because I'm not on a tablet, but on a pc/laptop and need to work.
5763: 1. Make nautilus a first class citizen in GNOME again. In GNOME 3, nautilus feels strapped on. Accessing files should be more seamlessly integrated into the "overlay" mode.
2. Keyboard navigation was supposed to be a major feature of GNOME 3, and yet I can't move between search results in the overlay mode using the arrow keys. In general, keyboard navigation should be consistent and pervasive throughout the UI.
3. Make it easier to start a chat with a contact from the overlay mode. I can search my contacts from the overlay mode, but when I click the icon, it brings me into the contacts application. There should be an easier way to initiate a conversation with that person. Also accessing the Contacts List for empathy should be more integrated with the status menu.
I know you've been getting a lot of flack for making a bad product in GNOME 3, but I think it's great! It is obviously a work in progress. Keep up the good work!
5764: See next question's answer.
1. keep the WIMP way of doing things as an option.
2. Make gnome 2.x and gtk2 themes available in future versions
5765: Pretty satisfied
Keep up the good work
5766: HID is fine, HID is great. Eliminating options for advanced users makes GNOME unusable.
Don't plug your ears with your fingers and yell "LA LA LA LA LA, I can't hear you."
5767: Keep GNOME 2.X as an active project for a least two more years because gnome 3 just isn't ready yet.
5768: Customisation, customisation, and customisation.
Hide options (to adjust panels and other UI elements) if desired, but please don't remove or make users hunt around for them. 2.x was great in that making adjustments was easy. If the concern is that there are too many menus to confuse users, then keep the menus hidden (current state) by default and include a switch under System Settings to re-enable a customisation mode.
* GNOME 3 has brought a number of great features -- favourites include better integration with Internet/social networking apps, and a Settings Manager panel to make it easier to set up the desktop after system install, for instance.
* Zeitgeist is a nice start as a framework, but could be better tapped into/integrated with other apps. For example, Activity Journal could be included in the package with more powerful filters to visualise and organise data. A settings panel should also be included to allow people to turn off the feature or adjust which apps/folders to integrate with.
- The "Activities" idea is interesting and doubtless there will be people who will benefit from this direction, but it also funnels people into certain modes or ways of doing things. Some people organise their information differently or prefer other ways of retrieval, and the Activities layout is not flexible enough to allow for those differences.
5769: Nothing in Gnome 2. I can't say much for 3 [other than tossing it out], but 2.x has satisfied all my needs.
Let people customize their UI again.
5770: I'd make it more customisable
Keep up the good work, but please don't add much more bloat
5771: get all buttons back
more customistation options
get back panel or minimaze unity way
as far as i know tablets and smartphones doesn't have biggest market share yet.
so forcing dumb-proof tablet like interface is retarded.
ppl tend to use input devices like keyboards and mices, so let them work properly (right button click some sort of panel for minimazed windows ) also get back compiz compatibility, mutter does sucks (as all other WM do ) it might not be perfect but still it is most advanced and most customisable WM linux has, reinventing the wheel w/ crap like mutter won't do any good.
5772: 1. Decreased startup time, 2. Better bundled applications esp. a gnome video editor 3.
No, they know more about Gnome than I do.
5773: (2.x:)
add a metacity theme with no titlebars and compensate missing functionality by putting a close button on each taskbar entry. kinda like browser tabs do it.
(3.x:)
panel applets. where are my panel applets?
if a reinvented desktop is to prosper it should not skip represantation of meaning by words. a taskbar is quicker than a dock/launcher.
keep on the good work, nontheless.
5774: I would love to be able to:
a) put files and folders onto the desktop
b) change the color scheme easily of menus (I don't like the black color scheme of the panel)
c) minimize a window with a button in the window title (please bring back the minimize button)
The default blue/grey/black color scheme is horrible. Especially the grey windows
which make it hard to differentiate active and non-active windows should get a new
color scheme. An active window should completely distinguishable from inactive
windows!
5775: 1) The bug tracker.
Bugzilla is getting old, it's hard and slow to search for bugs, hence there are a lot of duplicates. Launchpad is pretty neat. Redmine too.
Oh and, bugs opened for 12 years? At least once a year update the bugs. The older the bugs, the higher the priority should be.
2) Don't use non discoverable features: 'alt' to show the "power off" option? Who was going to discover this?
There are a lot of other keys that do things that can't be discovered. Ctrl-H or Ctrl-l in Nautilus, for ex. Make it easy to discover those features.
3) There are too many folders ~/.gconf, ~/.gconf2, ~/dconf, ~/local/.gnome, ~/config/.gnome, ~/cache/.gnome.... It's confusing. Just use one or two...
Continue to fight configurability. Sane defaults are what is important. Careful not to be interface nazis though.
Advertize more: it's hard to know what's coming up in the next Gnome, for ex, or what the results of a Gnome planning session are.
Do more polls like this one. Explain how the results are understood.
(discarded answers that were injurious, discarded answers not on subject...)
5776: Stability, performance, performance
5777: gnome shell
gnome shell
able to add shortcuts to panel
please provide a 2.X fall back for 3.X or future versions
5778: (1) More user configurability.
(2) Being able to discuss things with the developers and designers without being ignored or dismissed offhand.
While you provide a stable platform, there is not enough useful configurability.
Even a simple thing like adding an explicit resize button to window bars would be great, along with allowing the user the choose the location of such button on the titlebar.
5779: 1. Longer Release Cycles ( YEARS ): Finish the product before it's released.
2. Focus on the handicapped because distributions are not (Accessibility)
3. Consult the users first.
It's hard to recommend a product that doesn't care about maintaining itself. Ensure the 2.x release stays current.
5780: Erase the "options are eeeeevil" mantra from everyone's minds.
Give regressions top priority.
Remind the GNOME team that change only for the sake of change is not necessarily a good thing.
See question 22.
5781: Get it back in Ubuntu
5782: 1. Rethink Usability: If GNOME developers want to shift to tablets using mostly a touch interface they are in the right way. However if Gnome still intended for mouse/keyboard use then it is becoming worse. GNOME should use 2 pre-configured profiles: one tailored for devices with touch interface and the other for laptops/desktops using mouse/keyboard. Both profiles should still allow further customization by the users. Which takes us to item 2...
2. Allow Customization: It is nice to try to achieve minimalistic/clean interface but please keep allowing customization. To remove (almost all) customization is an error. Not have a way to include "cut/copy/paste" in Nautilus toolbar or being unable to change dash fixed left-side position are just a few examples.
3. Improve Speed: hardware and memory are becoming faster and cheaper every day but it seems Gnome isn't following.
Despite all the polemic around version 3 it is innovative and has many good things. I want to congratulate the developers for the great work they've done.
My suggestion is try to balance innovation, interface cleanness, usability, customization options and speed. To add new things is generally welcomed but to remove something people are already used to is catastrophic. Listen to the community.
5783: Better organized control panel options (it's a complete mess in 2.x)
Better Qt/KDE app look and feel integration
More sane defaults for font sizes (they tend to be ridiculously large or far too small, often on the same installation!)
5784: Ditch Gnome 3, go back to gnome 2.x architecture.
5785: PulseAudio dependency.
Polkit fiasco.
gconf
- Totem should try to compete with VLC, so far it's not a good replacement. (don't know clearly if this is caused because of gstreamer)
- Panel, icon and desktop positions get messed up for those that make heavy use of RaNDR, NVIDIA TwinView, and AMD's multi-display techs.
- GDM3, i know, it's faster, but somehow you need to modularize it so it can be extensible, so far seems to heavily plunged to a normal GNOME centric desktop when it's intended to be a Login Manager with a GNOME look (like it was on the 2.x era)
- Focus on multimedia, we know you people are getting there, you only need an extra bump.
- Prepare for the cruft that others make, particularly PyGTK and *GTK extensions to other languages. It's not your fault and of course, we shouldn't expect you guys fix it but demostrating this cruft making good tools should make them try a little harder to get it right.
Thanks for all your hard work, and kudos for all that new shiny on GNOME.
5786: I am pretty happy with things as they are, but for me it's just play on a spare notebook
5787: 1) Complete implementation of stuff. Function should atleast be 1:1 from Gnome 2
2) Fix CPU usage. Having a system load of constant 1.00 in Gnome 3 compared to 0.04 in Gnome 2 on my laptop drains the battery. This being said that's not true for all configurations. Again, it should atleast do 1:1.
3) The settings panel feels beta. Finish implementation. Expose options. Themeing, looks, feels. You should not need to edit xml files at random places (which mind you will be overwritten on next update) to make a smaller window border.
5788: Option to have window titlebar hidden/integrated with top status bar when window maximized.
Generally more available vertical screen real-estate for netbooks.
Global menu? (akin to to how Firefox/Opera has their menu on Windows operating systems, contained in a single button)
I've generally been very impressed with GNOME 3, what little I've used it (I'm an on-again, off-again Linux user). I expected to prefer Ubuntu's Unity as I tend to prefer as much vertical screen space as possible on my machines (but especially on netbooks), and Unity's integration of the menu and window controls is certainly a benefit in this regard. However, the speed and overall aesthetic of GNOME 3 won me over (I was never a fan of GNOME 2). My use is currently limited as I'm waiting for more major distributions to include GNOME 3 by default. I hope that your team will continue to be innovative with GNOME, as I think Linux DEs have been stagnant for a very long time and are in dire need of the kind of improvements and new thinking that I've seen in the most recent version of GNOME.
5789: More customizability, more features, more hackability
quit dumbing down
5790: Bring us more options to play with... ;)
Keep up the good work
5791: 1- Move close button to the left end of the window frame
2- Remove close button on bottom of windows, and put it in the window frame
3- More C/C++ and less Python; not a big deal, though
Keep working, you rock, GNOME rocks ;)
5792: 1. Give user the ability to control GNOME behaviour.
2. Add usable zoom (like in Compiz using nousewheel).
3. Work closely with Freedesktop.org and related projects.
GNOME 3 was a terrible upgrade: slow, memory leaking, feature lacking behemoth with poorer usability and less eye candy than GNOME 2 + Compiz. Because of this I'm still using GNOME 2 + Compiz at work.
5793: keep up the good work!
5794: Not much.
5795: I'd stop releasing alpha-quality software as major releases.
5796: Drop GNOME 3.x, its a half baked job. Either stick with known desktop metaphors or completely redo the user interface; GNOME 3.x is half baked, it is neither a standard desktop nor a completely new interface. It's chasing two rabbits and catching neither.
Build a new remote desktop / app protocol, that will allow raster updates a la VNC but either for a complete desktop or on an application by application basis. Effective adaptive compression and built in encryption would be great. Cross platform support would be good too.
5797: Alt-tab would not be application oriented. At least for terminals, which actually host entirely separate applications.
Keep on trying to refresh stuff, despite the yelling you get for daring to do that.
5798: customization was key
die in a fire
5799: Create a GNOME 3 Shell that works exactly the same as GNOME 2, complete with Panel and menu and extensibility.
My Current set up uses two Monitors, stacked one above the other With the GNOME Panel located at the bottom. I use 8 virtual Desktops (I hate the GNOME 3 virtual Desktops as you need them) with Compiz-Fusion, and most of my desktop navigation can be done with a mouse. I also use DockBarX in place of the GNOME Window List, as it gives me multiple Previews of loaded applications
A fixed top panel does not work,
GNOME 3 might be a great tablet/small screen desktop, but for large screens/multiple monitors it sucks chunks. Give us an option to use a GNOME 2 style desktop on such arrangements.
5800: - more web services integrated (facebook, twitter)
- the ability to make the launcher always visible
- not having to hold down the alt key to shut down the pc
GNOME 3.2 is great but work on GNOME OS can't start soon enough. I think the platform is really constrained by the lack of a first class, user focused implementation. Although I love GNOME, I can't recommend it to people as in my experience Fedora and openSuSE are too buggy and don't have enough of a desktop user focus and although I was very happy with Ubuntu 10.10 and GNOME 2.32 in that, obviously they use Unity which blows now.