What People Are Saying About GNOME [Part 5]
4501: polish gnome 3.x finish themes, global menus for maximized windows is good idea (like unity), keep local menus for not maximized windows (unlike unity)
I think you are on good way with gnome 3, simple fast, launching application is way better than in unity(responsiveness makes difference), also switching between applications feels more natural then in unity. I do not know why linux users complains about simplicity, we were using window maker and loved it :-).
4502: More preferences for fine-tuning behaviour (such as disabling the accessibility icon, disabling auto-maximisation of windows, non-automagic virtual desktops etc.) without having to write extensions to gnome-shell.
Bring back two-dimensional virtual desktop.
Private mode for epiphany.
Keep up the good work!
4503: More customizations. Fonts, icon sizes, login screen, and so on. Basically what was available in Gnome 2.
Listen to the users. Don't dumb down the interface/customization possibilities.
4504: Allow to easily maximise a window to left/right half of screen, http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2010/01/21/snap/
un-break gnome-terminal + GNU screen + mousewheel
Support for Extended File Attributes (user_xattr) for tagging files
Thanks for all the wonderful work!
4505: Keep the shell, it is great, but could be improved:
- add option to remove the accessibility applet
- change the integration of the active application on the top bar, it not pretty at all
- finally provides an application to manage themes!
- simplify a bit the notifications, the 4 edges of the screen are filled, a bit too much
Sorry, 4 points.
Try to manage to create a real Debian based distro dedicated to Gnome 3. Canonical won't do much effort in the future around Gnome now they are Unity.
4506: gnome-panel
gnome-shell
After 1.5year I've updated my ubuntu (10.04 -> 11.10).
Oh god what had happened to Gnome?
I can't customize gnome-panel in the way i was used to, no manual applets arangement, I can only use some predefined extensions.
Gnome-shell automaticaly handles desktops, ok.. but why desktops only works on 'primary monitor' but secondary remains same? ..
TLDR:
I want more configuration options to gnome-panel
I want gnome-shell to properly handle multihead display
4507: Preserve the classic gnome-panel in Gnome 3+
Merge best of Gnome 3 with best of Ubuntu Unity
Allow power users to mix and match classic Gnome (2), Gnome 3 / gnome shell and features of Unity (e.g. Dash)
PLEASE avoid the religious battles on App indicators / notification trays, and Gnome 3 versus Unity.
Make the best efforts possible to cooperate and inter-operate between Gnome 3, Unity and Gnome 2 (classic)
4508: - More customization
- More customization
- More customization
4509: Version 2.x is still better for me. But 3.2 is more usable than 3.0...
4510: I like Gnome 2.x, I wish it had a menu similar to Linux Mint. Other than that, completely satisfied.
More themes please!
4511: Gnome-Shell is really quite nice, just has a few quirks and bugs here and there. I'm really enjoying it for the most part, although I am missing some of the more useful Compiz plugins.
4512: Please do not look up to Unity
4513: Stop thinking your users are idiots.
Options are GOOD - keep them. Maybe rearrange config dialogs, locations of options, but don't remove or hide them behind obscure "registry-editing" like things.
...
Care about your userbase, not some potential new one that will drive your existing users away.
4514: Implementation language of applications (really hard to find problems or improve programs written in mostly undocumented C i.e. gnome-commander, gedit), gcaltool, anjuta.
4515: network manager - connect to hidden wifi
more preferences
smaller padding
4516: - I would add as many extension as I could - at least all of those default ones in Gnome 2.x (system monitor is my fav.)
- I would set Pidgin as the default Gnome IM again, it's multiplatform, it has more features
- I would make dconf-editor more for "the normal people" (not being counted as one of them)
- notifications steal focus from text entry fields - that's a bug and it's annoying
- merge gnome-tweak-tool settings with the general ones, add more and more and more and more (like a possibility to switch off windows stretching in the desktop sides and top, etc.)
- integrate more online services, like all around Google/Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, ... - I don't need an app like Gwibber, I need to have all my contacts imported from Gmail and to be able to actually contact them via whatever (mail, IM, ..) - connecting people together is VERY important since the Facebook times
4517: 1. better gui for gnome settings
2. better task manager
3. better disk burning software
4518: 1. stay in classical desktop environment
2. don't go to gnome3 way...
3. ... or create *really compatible* classical desktop environment variant in gnome3
I tried to use gnome3 several times.
It was trauma for me every time (last time 1 week ago with gnome-3.0.2 in debian unstable). I have to downgrade gnome components back to 2.30.
And fallback is not variant of 2.30...
It looks I will need to move to xfce or something else with traditional desktop environment in near future. It's a pity :-(
Thanks for all your previous work.
Milos
4519: I'd make focus_mode = sloppy the default, raise_on_click = false the default, and have everyone come to their wits about how unix-style mouse interaction is simply better, and worth first-class support.
4520: Global Menu or sth similar
Adwaita theme too bulky
4521: - the default font
- the keyboard/layout properties : It doesn't allow me to chage key assignement appart of the one already choosen for me. Plus having to dive into menus for combination key is annoying (always been). A wizzard would be hundred time better (eg. it would explain something.)
- Use ruby instead of js ... i don't like js
Keep rocking
4522: Bring back support for the classic desktop
4523: Expand the customization ability. ie. sounds / themes / screensaver etc. ( Something of a serious regression in Gnome 3)
Fix the printer setup console. I've been forced to use the CUPS web interface to add network printers. Not something you want normal users to experience.
4524: Take Unity out back, and shoot it in the face with a gun.
Yes, stick the entire project..
4525: I just want the good old Metacity and Gnome Panel back. I don't want to use Gnome Shell. Neither I want to use Unity. Both are nonsense on my 3200x1080 desktop. The GNOME 3.x UI change was a bad move.
Return to GNOME 2.32 and continue improving it without any radical UI changes. I use the panels since 1985 (GEM in Atari ST) and I am quite used to it. No need to change good things, really.
4526: 1. Usability (2.x seems better to me)
2. Hardware demands
3. ...
4527: 1. I would enhance the gnome panel to the likeness of DockBarX with a hint of Windows Jumplist to be able to launch and control multiple instances of the same applications right from the panel without needing dive into the menu. Along this line I have downloaded and installed gnome-menu-file-browser-applet to bridge the gap.
2. Build Compiz into Gnome, EyeCandy Baby!! lol :-)
Have a Nice Day Guys and Gals
4528: having problems with multi sessions, using notebook together with my wife, if single session is runnning, everything works as it should. but after multisession (both users signed to gnome session), sometimes during switching to other user, gnome session or gdm freezes, only option is to restart gdm.
ps: running Arch Linux
4529: More settings to change in gnome 3 (shell)
Easy way to change GUI (backgroung, icons, themes etc.) in gnome 3
Lower system load (for example turn off animations)
More settings to change in gnome 3 (shell)
Easy way to change GUI (backgroung, icons, themes etc.) in gnome 3
Lower system load (for example turn off animations)
4530: improve response time using VFS in situations where remote i.e. SFTP does not respond. I need to wait long until I get an error message. Ability to cancel current operation.
Shell must be really really fast to be usable. It also must not cover current view to desktop as I am loosing context with my open windows.
Network manager to support enterprise Cisco cvpn with certificates.
Consider Gnome Shell as a proof of concept and start brainstorming and usability analysis from scratch.
4531: 1) Alt+Tab animation
2) Move the bar to the bottom
3) The developers can design it the way they want, but the user should be able to anything if they don't like it.
Keep up the good work. And remember that the users should be able to customize it the way they like it. After all, once it's installed it's running on our PC's.
4532: All configuration stored in human readable Text (not XML!)
Separate Application menus for "Things I Have" and "Things I use" a toggle on the "Things I have" menu to let the user see it in the "Things I use". Make the "Things I use" the standard launch base.
User level applications. Such as .app folders in OsX or AppDirs as in ROX-filer.
Design to ease how people are currently using the system, do not design for how you would like to imagine people would use the system.
You can be experimental in optional components, Only when there is a consensus amongst users should those features become default.
4533: Fix power manager to allow control over brightness while changing from AC to battery.
Tell that asshat developing the gnome-power-manager that his 'vision' of the gnome desktop is irrelevant.
4534: I want the Apply/Cancel buttons for configuration changes. I like to try changing things, but I also need to have a quick way of putting things back after an experiment.
4535: more options
more ptions in gnome shell
applet on panel
4536: UI seems to be designed for tablet users only. I would like something that is easy and efficient to use as a desktop computer.
More convenient way to switch between open programs (like an auto-hide window switcher at the bottom of the desktop)
Need a shutdown button and other key features that are no longer present.
An interesting and creative approach to creating an updated desktop for users but needs a lot of work to make it accessible for both beginners and advanced users..
4537: I'm german and I like using GNOME!
4538: add split windows option
if it ain't broke, don't fix it
4539: - allow gdm to choose the keyboard layout ! (it's a pain to have to type my password in azerty while I'm using bépo for example), as bépo doesn't appear in available installation layouts.
- allow virtual desktops to take another shape (square for example, 2 columns if you have 3 or 4 virtual screens. so you can move faster with left and right arrows, instead of several times top or bottom.
- I'm running 3.2 (F16 beta) and gnome is now slower to start compared to 3.0 (used it with F15), hope it's only due to beta phase. saw that behaviour on a64 x2 4200, 4gb ram, radeon 2400, ssd drive (F16 64 bits), and on netbook atom N270, 2gb ram, intel 945GME, classic HDD (F16 32 bits).
Keep up the good work guys ! I've been able to reassure myself that I could still change my habits and follow IT changes ;)
4540: Gnome 3. Why did they have to go and wreck everything?
4541: fork version 2
fork version 2
4542: 1 Make it more customizable.
2 Make running apps list visible.
3 Make interface mouse friendly instead of touch friendly on non-touch devices.
A common shell for touch/non-touch devices does not work very well on either. Both MacOSX and Windows8 have different shells for touch/non-touch devices.
Window switching is difficult as well as managing multiple instances of the same application.
4543: Have a working window manager that does what the user wants - not what the developer thinks is good. I have had to patch metacity since day one to get it working well.
Have a good e-mail client.
Do not think you know best. Everybody do not think or work like you.
4544: 1) Reign in Evolution - Evolution is far too important a part of the Gnome experience to let it run loose the way it does. Evolution really needs to catch up with the rest of the Gnome overhaul
2) Rename "System Info" under settings!
3) More persistent notification, please
Haters stop hating, yo!
I love the new simplicity of the window manager. Please make it creep into more applications as well - I'd love a browser that gives me the same feeling of simplicity, while still being developed at the speed of Firefox and Chromium
4545: Be more like xfce and less like movieOS.
4546: - make gnome-shell lighter, that process takes up to 8 9% of my i5 cpu, that is unacceptable.
- read the first line
- read the first line
- listen to your users! The software is for them not you!
4547: Tab switching
system try moving
add window panel
4548: Go back to GNOME 2, or remove the composition forced in the default.
Enable plugins of the new gnome 3 bar, and skinning of gnome 3 easily. WITHOUT XML knowledge.
4549: Feature freeze for 5 years
Only Bug Fixes
Only Stability Fixes
Feature freeze for 5 years
Only Bug Fixes
Only Stability Fixes
also help out the desktop automation framework teams from IBM
4550: 1. Bring back the app switcher. A nice one with small icon would be cool.
2. Screensaver choice, may be old stuff, but i like moving image and line on the screen before it shut down.
3. More theme, black is cool but may not fit all my mood.
Gnome Shell is a good initiative, it does still need some tuning because we do feel like it's been a regression from gnome-panel feature wise.
I long to see a easy way to add and enable "applets" in the top, down or right section. The application bar is great, but have some sections. The pot of icons is not the best.
4551: No 3d
4552: - Easier accessibility of options and settings. The desktop configuration tools and settings in xfce are way easier to find and manage than in Gnome 3.
Keep up the good work!
4553: 1 - Easier
2 - Desktop
3 - Customization
4554: Get rid of all the touchscreen crap. Focus more on fixing/improving the current desktop and don't follow the stupifying of the OS like the Apple and Windows losers.
Don't break my Desktop!!!!!!!!
4555: 1. More economical with screen real estate.
2. Better fonts.
4556: Bring back the "Applications, Places, System" menu
Bring Gnome 2 back to life
4557: Task manager
More customisation of the environment
No compositing mode
Task manager! Changing between windows is slow in Gnome 3. You need to allow power users to be able to manage their windows properly. Also, I am completely against the current trend of removing options from the interface. You need to come up with a better solution, something like an advanced tab from where there would be many submenus etc. so that people can tweak their system!
4558: 1) Currently gnome 3 seems to have been designed with touch screen in
mind, now this is all well and good however, not many people
actually own a touch screen system, therefore i would either change
the user interface, and make it similar to gnome 2 or create a fork
of gnome for gnome 2 development
That's pretty much it :)
I understand that the UI change was a controversial decision and while i personally, did not enjoy using it as much as i do gnome 2, i have to applaud you for taking that risk.
Thank you or taking the time to review this information and have a pleasant day :)
4559: preserve old gnome-panel
easy photo editing tool
speed GUI
+ better names for some applications
+ better voice for speech synthesizer
I miss the old gnome-panel in GNOME 3.
4560: 1) Application switch (Gnome 3 on Ubuntu) as icons don't exist anymore.
2) Settings: currently they're spread over different apps (e.g. why do I need to install a "tweak" app to change basic settings?) and there's no UI for many settings.
3) Add custom commands/icons to the laucher bar, i.e. something I have in ~/mySoftware directory.
Listen to REAL users before pretending to know what users want.
Torvalds complained about the terminal (the icon just brings the existing one on the foreground, instead of creating a new one) among other things. He's not the Bible, but many other users had similar complaints, including me.
4561: Make documentation for extension api and theming more readily available
Add an app to change my "windows key" to a ickle foot logo ;)
Keep up the good work! - Unity is dogshit but don't get complacent :D
4562: Change the name to Gnome.
I always loved GNOME because of sane defaults and not much (visible) configuration. But GNOME 3 starts to have some insane defaults and still have no visible configuration in this respect (yes, like the poweroff button or suspend-on-lid-close option). This is very disheartening. I think the GNOME is making a hard push to the mass audience without realizing that mass audience doesn't use Linux at all. It is a mistake to forget about all those powerusers who represent the majority of GNOME users. It is hard to do one-fit-for-all approach. The configuration options must be reasonable.
4563: gnome-panel
gnome-shell
gnome-mplayer
nice job. but things used to work befor, now it's risky to install new version.
4564: 1) Popup text description on mouse-over in notifications area. I would leave it without text, or maybe only with tooltip
2) I am missing taskbar, but maybe I get used to it
4565: I'd make it stable,
I'd turn it back to the look of 2.x
I'd deprecate the shell
read above answer
4566: 1. Applications view would be sorted inline instead of a second step
2. Applications list loads in the background after startup, to allow for faster viewing and better response time when starting to type
3. Ability for more options than gnome-tweak-tools offers (regarding layout/color and the icons in the upper right corner)
Thank you for this radical change! It made me switch to GNOME without looking back. My "three changes" would be very apreciated though ;)
4567: 1. Better file manager - two pannels, more configurable, more informations, don't waste with free space (no more big icons) - similar look like Midnight Commander (or Altap Salamander or Total Commander on Win).
4568: greater configurability
lighter
gnome shell must be better than unity
4569: Customization
Speed
Do not rely on badly advertised —supposedly "discoverable"— features.
4570: back to Gnome 2
back many icons to menus
back old gdm with skins support
4571: 1)more options (ex: screensaver configuration)
2)more GUIs (ex: to configure the button positions (minimize, maximize, close, etc left or right))
3)easier menu/shortcut management: drag+drop organization, right-click->properties to see shortcut commands
cf 3 desired changes above.
+ fix the positions of panel shortcuts. They seem to move around randomly sometimes after boot.
For compiz:
-SHOW MINIMIZED WINDOWS IN SCALE!
-Allow different combos for showing windows from all desktops or just current desktop in scale (might already be the case, but I'm not sure anymore. Not using Compiz at the moment.)
4572: 1.More Customization
2.Less focus on touch screen
3.More focous on google and online integration.
Good work but stop making a half ass attempt to bring touch to the desktop, It's dumb.
4573: I haven't tried gnome 3 yet. I am using debian testing with KDE. I used gnome 2.x when I used ubuntu. I have seen unity during some fresh istalls for some friends and it sucks.
I believe QT is a great toolkit and that's how I started seeing KDE as an alternative. I have no problem with gnome and will try it for sure when version 3 is available in testing (that's a reason I am thinking of leaving debian).
I could change only one thing in GNOME. Collaboration with other desktop environments (especially KDE) in making a unified looks. I am tired of seeing many programms written in gtk being ugly in KDE. Well some work has been done in gtk 2 with oxygen kde but in gtk 3 things are very bad.
Oops I suppose the comment the previous question was more suitable for this one
4574: Nothing really.
4575: Gnome 3 has been a major step backwards. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
4576: - improve consistency of window decorators and GUI elements
- integration of applications
- solid integration of desktop search
Keep up the good work!
4577: Make the default more like Unity
Review Unity, (objectively, without the hysterics) and understand what it gets right that gnome 3 doesn't.
4578: 1. A normal taskbar in gnome shell
2. Remove the 'registry', use human readable text files.
3. Less bloat, less crap, less visual clutter.
Since GNOME 2 is deprecated, I have switched to XFCE. I have no intention of using GNOME ever again.
4579: rewrite xorg
vertical tabs
4580: I don't like gnome-shell as a working environment in a desktop.
It seems to me oriented to tablets.
It would be nice to ask users before undergo important changes in the interface.
4581: Better window management for multiple windows of the same application. It is currently not possible to work with multiple terminals and not get frustrated when switching between them using the keyboard.
PLEASE don't take away options for experienced users. find a good default setting and let the user choose between alternate options (power management, themes, ...).
4582: Have the same functionality as GNOME 2.x, but with improved graphics and some useful and practical improvements of GNOME 3.
Have a better communication with real non-technical users that could suggest how to improve the UX.
4583: - possibility to launch more application without switching to Activities view repeatedly
4584: Organisation of system tray. When screen size changes the icons go all over the show, including losing the shut down button.
4585: 1. I would extend shortcuts to accept mouse buttons
2. I would put the top bar in to a better use. (using 1920x1600 dekstop here)
3. I would make alt+click to poweroff optional
(4.) I would implement Compiz style workspace switching when hovering over desktop and wheeling up or down with mouse.
Fix the bugs and test more widely. Keep interfaces open and make it easy for 3.rd party to develop extensions and functionality.
4586: default window manager
speed
icon design
keep it simple
4587: - Sort out the dependencies - as it is today, if you configure one thing, another breaks, and this seems to go downhill. Wtf?
- Make it easy for the GNOME user to choose a lightweight, more bare-bones mode, where things just work. No fancy animations, no frills, just a small footprint and a functional environment.
Don't try to turn the GNOME/Linux combo into a free version of MS Windows. If anybody wants that, they can use the original, and be better off with it.
Don't try to compete with "cool". Nobody needs a cool bug-nest.
Instead, make it - and keep it - stable and useful.
4588: I would replace the development team with programmers rather than designers
Sit & spin. Gnome 3 sucks.
4589: 1 create a community platform ex. like ubuntu brainstorm
2 dont treat the users as stupid, more configuration options
3 completely rethink about gnome shell, away with this blinky tablet application menu and why the hell most of the systray is hidden? there is enough space in the top panel.
involve the community...
4590: Return 2.x, return to sane configuration files and stop the Windows-like unbreakable integration of components with each other, in favor of modularity
Went to Xfce where things are configurable
4591: more bling bling ;)
no gnome 3!
widgets and a dock
4592: Add bookmarks to the top
Add an optional taskbar at the bottom
Improve stability (sudden freezes, themes stop working...)
Make gnome 3 more like gonme 2
4593: Default Windows key support
More focus. Stop doing lots of things badly and do the important things well.
Better dual monitor
Put the crackpipe down and start making gnome3 more like gnome2. nobody cares if it's more elegantly constructed if they can't use it.
GNONE 2.x has many loyal users that have *their* own way of working. Having tried GNOME 3, I was extremely disapointted with the way it forced me to work in a particular way.
Second. Dual monitor support is a joke. This is the primary reason I refuse to use GNOME 3.
4594: Double click to left dot to close window.
Integrate Compiz by default.
Keep it going! I tried Unity once and it is impossible, I can't upgrade my Ubuntu since it is unity only in the next version.
4595: Better customization options in Gnome Shell. Better documentation. Real file search in Gnome Shell.
4596: put the old panels back (incl. all the functions!)
4597: Better settings menu its quite bare and doesn't have a lot of options
4598: supply a minimum of usability comparable to, or better than 2.32. if your intent is to improve something, do so. ripping the wheels off a car may lighten its chassis, but tends to hamper its performance.
get rid of the default "i-pad look". intensely annoying.
place something at least as functional as the old side-scroll, or stabilize that infuriating hide-and-go-seek thing and restore the page-up/down jump feature.
get off your snob-wagon, and pay attention to your community...if you intend to continue having one.
and: never, ever, fix something that isn't broken. if it wasn't at first, it sure as hell is now.
4599: * workspace handling could be improved
* better documentation for gnome-shell plugin writing
* Most things in gnome are kiss but undocumented and appear complicated
Nope - thanks for gnome3
4600: Everything they committed after 2.32.
Give us a classic desktop, give us back our configuration options. Start listening to the users of your software, stop acting holier than thou.