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Certainly gnome felt more familiar than unity. What felt truly closest was elementaryOS's pantheon.

by adrusi 9y ago

qwerty456127 9y ago
What does Gnome 3 have in common with macOS at all? I use a MacBook every day yet every time I've given Gnome 3 a try it seemed a way too bizarre to me. It doesn't even have a traditional dock (unless you install one).
- adrusi 9y ago
  Compare OS X Lion's mission control[1] with gnome 3's dash[2]. By the time I switched to Linux, I never used the dock, instead launching applications with Alfred/spotlight (and switching with some combination of cmd+tab, mission control, and spaces track pad gestures). Gnome 3 maps super+tab to alt+tab which was great for my muscle memory since my super key was where my command key used to be. What I found annoying about gnome 3 was the persistent useless panel at the top of the screen (I still use gnome at work and I use the dash-to-panel extension[3] to make it slightly less useless). [1] http://obamapacman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Mission-Control-OS-X-Lion-10.7.jpg http://obamapacman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Mission-Co... [2] https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/en.linux/images/9/97/GNOME_Shell.png/revision/latest?cb=20150816153038 https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/en.linux/images/9/97/GNO... [3] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1160/dash-to-panel/ https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1160/dash-to-panel/
  - qwerty456127 9y ago
    I see. Thank you for explaining. As for me macOS is just the dock, the global menu (both replicated and enhanced nicely in Unity, as well as in KDE though KDE global menu works with Qt apps only and Unity global menu works with Gtk apps only) and a BSD terminal :-) As for Mission Control - I have never used it on Mac but on KDE moving the mouse cursor to the top left corner of the screen shows all the windows in the manner looking a lot like the screenshot in the Wikipedia article for Mission Control. As for the Gnome 3 top panel - I agree it is the most pointless part of it, I wish it could host the application menu the way it does in macOS and Unity. The problem is Linux apps seemingly lack a standard for this so it wouldn't work with all the apps, that's why I've came to the conclusion I don't need a top panel at all.
    - seba_dos1 9y ago
      KDE's global menu works with practically everything now, thanks to gmenu-dbusmenu-proxy.
      - qwerty456127 9y ago
        Cool! Thanks! I wish I could +10 this. I haven't actually tested it so far but if it works it's amazing.
      - qwerty456127 9y ago
        By the way, isn't there something like this for launcher icon based indicators? Many apps show some status (e.g. number of unread messages, operation progress etc) as an overlay to their icons in the Unity launcher panel. Many apps (e.g. Krusader) do the same in KDE. Some (e.g. Chrome) do this in both the mentioned DEs but many non-KDE apps (e.g. Telegram) fail to do this in KDE.
      - qwerty456127 9y ago
        Well, I've installed the gmenu-dbusmenu-proxy-git package from AUR, enabled the global menu panel and restarted the computer. GTK apps menus still won't go to the panel. How do I turn this proxy on?
  - qwerty456127 9y ago
    By the way, out of pure curiosity (by no means I intend to question your DE choice, quite contrary), have you tried recent KDE? I'm just curious if it actually misses some good parts Gnome 3 has and if these can be added to KDE eventually.

Certainly gnome felt more familiar than unity. What felt truly closest was elementaryOS's pantheon.

by adrusi 9y ago

Certainly gnome felt more familiar than unity. What felt truly closest was elementaryOS's pantheon.

What does Gnome 3 have in common with macOS at all? I use a MacBook every day yet every time I've given Gnome 3 a try it seemed a way too bizarre to me. It doesn't even have a traditional dock (unless you install one).

adrusi 9y ago
Compare OS X Lion's mission control[1] with gnome 3's dash[2]. By the time I switched to Linux, I never used the dock, instead launching applications with Alfred/spotlight (and switching with some combination of cmd+tab, mission control, and spaces track pad gestures). Gnome 3 maps super+tab to alt+tab which was great for my muscle memory since my super key was where my command key used to be. What I found annoying about gnome 3 was the persistent useless panel at the top of the screen (I still use gnome at work and I use the dash-to-panel extension[3] to make it slightly less useless). [1] http://obamapacman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Mission-Control-OS-X-Lion-10.7.jpg http://obamapacman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Mission-Co... [2] https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/en.linux/images/9/97/GNOME_Shell.png/revision/latest?cb=20150816153038 https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/en.linux/images/9/97/GNO... [3] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1160/dash-to-panel/ https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1160/dash-to-panel/
- qwerty456127 9y ago
  I see. Thank you for explaining. As for me macOS is just the dock, the global menu (both replicated and enhanced nicely in Unity, as well as in KDE though KDE global menu works with Qt apps only and Unity global menu works with Gtk apps only) and a BSD terminal :-) As for Mission Control - I have never used it on Mac but on KDE moving the mouse cursor to the top left corner of the screen shows all the windows in the manner looking a lot like the screenshot in the Wikipedia article for Mission Control. As for the Gnome 3 top panel - I agree it is the most pointless part of it, I wish it could host the application menu the way it does in macOS and Unity. The problem is Linux apps seemingly lack a standard for this so it wouldn't work with all the apps, that's why I've came to the conclusion I don't need a top panel at all.
  - seba_dos1 9y ago
    KDE's global menu works with practically everything now, thanks to gmenu-dbusmenu-proxy.
    - qwerty456127 9y ago
      Cool! Thanks! I wish I could +10 this. I haven't actually tested it so far but if it works it's amazing.
    - qwerty456127 9y ago
      By the way, isn't there something like this for launcher icon based indicators? Many apps show some status (e.g. number of unread messages, operation progress etc) as an overlay to their icons in the Unity launcher panel. Many apps (e.g. Krusader) do the same in KDE. Some (e.g. Chrome) do this in both the mentioned DEs but many non-KDE apps (e.g. Telegram) fail to do this in KDE.
    - qwerty456127 9y ago
      Well, I've installed the gmenu-dbusmenu-proxy-git package from AUR, enabled the global menu panel and restarted the computer. GTK apps menus still won't go to the panel. How do I turn this proxy on?
- qwerty456127 9y ago
  By the way, out of pure curiosity (by no means I intend to question your DE choice, quite contrary), have you tried recent KDE? I'm just curious if it actually misses some good parts Gnome 3 has and if these can be added to KDE eventually.