Linus on Gnome 3.2

[Thomas Milne]

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 03:51:27PM -0500, Thomas Milne wrote:
>> Gnome 3 has that with Tweak Tool. That decision, to not allow a
>> min/max button, was pretty stupid, granted.
>
> I don't want to have to tweak it.  I want it to have sane defaults.
> At least it should be in the standard config tool.

I think from what you described as your basic needs, it met 90% of
them by default.

>> From what you've written, I can't see anything that you'd be missing.
>> I don't have desktop icons, and I also run everything maximized. I
>> always set a wallpaper, but I don't know why because I never see it
>
> I couldn't find the icon for pidgin in gnome3 as far as I recall.  It was
> simply nowhere.  And it was wasting an enourmous amount of screen space
> on some dock looking thing.  Gnome has always wasted too much screen
> space on panels by default.

It has one thin panel at the top of the screen. The dock doesn't
appear unless you select the Activities menu. There are no applets
loaded by default except the standards that everyone is used to. The
icon for Pidgin is under Applications --> Internet.

> I really didn't have the patience to figure out why anything wasn't
> working.   It didn't just work, so I switched to something that did.
>

Personal experience and preferences are valid, but I don't think the
fact that it's missing a maximize button by default qualifies it as a
total failure of design standards.

-- 
Thomas Milne
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