[arch-general] Gnome 3 + KDE 4 are both large disappointments.

Ionuț Bîru ibiru at archlinux.org
Mon Apr 11 06:44:06 EDT 2011


On 04/11/2011 01:38 PM, Jan de Groot wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 21:50 +0200, Dennis Beekman wrote:
>> 1. You cannot change the panels anymore you stuck with the 2 given by
>> gnome 3.
>> 2. Changing themes also is inpossible.. or so it seems.
>> 3. Why do we need a system settings menu with all the options in one
>> menu ? where are my seperate icons i love so much ? why can we choose
>> wich icons or options we want ?
>> 4. What about the people ho don't have or don't wich to use they're
>> video hardware to run the these stupid graphics ... are we stuck with
>> "fallback mode" wich is even more stupid and backward ?
>> 5 Where did all the nice applets go ? and why can i not add them to
>> my
>> taskbar anymore....
>
> 1. Try pressing alt. It should be documented somewhere, but it's in the
> NEWS file for gnome-panel at least
> 2. The UI was removed, but you can still set things in dconf and gconf.
> When Adwaita looked like crap in fallback mode, I've used Mist for a
> long while.
> 3. Design choice, Mac OS X has this too and in the view of gnome-shell,
> this is a logic choice. The control-center with grouped applet view
> already existed for a long time in 2.x versions also, but only SuSE used
> it I think.
> 4. Fallback mode is just like classic GNOME in looks, though you have
> the new theming and new apps. I used fallback mode for a long while and
> I'm still forced to do so on this desktop, the step from 2.x to 3.x in
> fallback mode is very small
> 5. Applets are not nice, but for the icons and things that were ported
> to the new panel-applet API, you can just press alt while right-clicking
> your panel to add it like you used to do.
>


i noticed that "alt" doesn't work after migrating the settings from 
gnome 2.32 to gnome 3 but it will work fine in a new profile. Sounds 
like a bug that worth submitting upstream

-- 
Ionuț


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